The Division of Procurement Services is proud to announce the launch of its new learning management system (LMS), SCOPES – South Carolina’s Online Procurement Education System.

SCOPES will help its users maintain training records and documents, while streamlining course registration and access to online training materials. Like our classes, it will be available to all government procurement employees in South Carolina. In fact, if you have taken a course within the last year, or work for a county, school district, or state agency, there’s a good chance that you have already been added to the system. If you have not, registration is easy, and will be made available soon. 

The Division of Procurement Services will begin rolling out SCOPES to state agency procurement officials in mid-June. Introductory webinars will be held on June 7, June 21, and July 12 at 2 p.m. Register for one of the webinars below.

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The Division of Procurement Services has recorded a number of webinars to guide procurement officials. They are available on the webinars portion of our website. There are a number of free procurement-related training materials available on the training materials section of our website. 

Resources are available for procurement officers at a national level. While these are not necessarily state-specific, they reflect overall procurement best practices and are great places to start, especially if new to the career.

The National Institute of Government Procurement (NIGP) offers an extensive list of procurement trainings for procurement officials with a wide variety of experience through their Pathways program. Please log into the LMS for pricing and availability. NIGP has also developed a list of Global Best Practices for a wide variety of procurement topics, which are available for free on its website.

The National Association of State Procurement Officials keeps a repository of job aids for fundamental procurement-related topics in its Procurement Toolbox. It also offers courses through its Procurement U system. NASPO is currently offering multiple introductory classes for free. Learn more here.

Many of the Division of Procurement Services courses require the use of the South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code book. To purchase a 2020 copy of the book, please click here, complete the form, and return it to scbrown@mmo.sc.gov. 

For questions or concerns about training, please contact the Training Team by reaching out to training@mmo.sc.gov.