The Department of Finance has invited nominations for entrants in the 2020 Commonwealth Procurement Awards for Excellence.
In a statement accompanying the announcement, Finance said the awards provided an opportunity to recognise the positive outcomes delivered to citizens, businesses and the Australian Government through procurement.
“Nomination for the 2020 Awards is open to all non-corporate Commonwealth entities and prescribed corporate Commonwealth entities who can nominate in one or more of the three award categories,” the Department said.
The categories are: Building Entity Capability; Delivering Innovation through Procurement; and Engaging with SMEs.
In the ‘Building Entity Capability’ category, the design criterion outlines the planning and approach required to lift procurement capability and culture within the entity, driving how officials engaged with procurement in their daily operations.
It says the implementation criterion requires a demonstration that procurement capability is a priority for the entity with tools and resources to support procurement excellence that could be utilised by officers on a regular basis.
The criterion for ‘outcome’ seeks evidence of the benefits achieved through building entity capability.
In the category for ‘Delivering Innovation through Procurement’ the challenge/opportunity criterion seeks a description of the challenge or opportunity addressed through innovation.
The solution criterion seeks evidence of how either the approach or outcome (or both) were innovative, and the outcome criterion seeks clear descriptions of how procurement was used to deliver innovation or the innovative approach to procurement that was utilised.
The third category ‘Engaging with SMEs’, the opportunity criterion looks to a description of how the entity maximised potential for Australian and New Zealand small and medium enterprises to participate in Commonwealth procurement.
The approach criterion requires a description of the strategy or approach to a procurement that maximised the potential for SMEs to compete and participate.
The outcome criterion seeks the strategy or approach that maximised SME participation.
The Awards close on 25 September and nominations can be lodged at the Department of Finance at this PS News link.
