BSB41618 Certificate IV in Business (Procurement)

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for BSB41618 ended on 17 October 2020 — 5 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 19 October 2021 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
BSB — Business Services Training Package
Currency period ends
17 October 2020
Latest release
Release 2 · 28 February 2020 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
BSB41615
Superseded by
BSB40120 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. BSB41618Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Business (Procurement)
  2. not equivalent
  3. BSB40120CurrentCertificate IV in Business

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • BSB41615BSB41618not equivalent26 September 2018

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • BSB41618BSB40120not equivalent18 October 2020

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is BSB41618 on your scope?

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Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What BSB41618 is made of

training.gov.au lists 29 units for BSB41618: 5 core and 24 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 5 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBCRT404Apply advanced critical thinking to work processesnot current
BSBPMG416Apply project procurement proceduresnot current
BSBPRC401Plan procurementcurrent
BSBPRC402Negotiate contractscurrent
PSPPCM018Conduct demand and procurement spend analysiscurrent

Elective units 24 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBFIA412Report on financial activitynot current
BSBITU401Design and develop complex text documentsnot current
BSBLDR402Lead effective workplace relationshipsnot current
BSBLDR403Lead team effectivenessnot current
BSBMKG408Conduct market researchnot current
BSBPRC403Conduct international procurementcurrent
BSBPRC406Conduct e-procurementcurrent
BSBREL402Build client relationships and business networksnot current
BSBRES411Analyse and present research informationnot current
BSBRSK401Identify risk and apply risk management processesnot current
BSBWHS401Implement and monitor WHS policies, procedures and programs to meet legislative requirementsnot current
BSBWRT401Write complex documentsnot current
BSBXBD401Capture and store big datacurrent
BSBXBD402Test big data samplescurrent
BSBXBD403Analyse big datacurrent
BSBXBD404Use big data for operational decision makingcurrent
BSBXBD405Develop procedures for managing big datacurrent
BSBXBD406Present big data insightscurrent
BSBXBD407Protect big data integritycurrent
BSBXBD408Implement and review procedures for managing big datacurrent
PSPGEN039Develop internal and external networksnot current
PSPPCM006Select providers and develop contractscurrent
PSPPCM007Manage contractscurrent
PSPPCM011Plan to manage a contractcurrent

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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