Most Improved Procurement Team 2023 Nomination Form

Thank you for your interest in The Nigels - The Annual PASA Procurement in Practice Award “Most Improved Procurement Team 2023”.

 

Closing date for entries: 8 September 2023. 

 

Entry criteria

Please note that these awards are only open to procurement teams in Australia/New Zealand.

 

Your entry should recognise a team which has delivered above and beyond ‘business as usual’.  This could include capability building, a critical project or team coherence and mutual support.

These factors were important to Nigel Wardropper whom the awards are named after. Nigel always tried to recognise them through the awards process.

 

How finalists are judged

 

Finalists, as judged by our judging panel, will be invited to ‘present’ their submissions to the audience at the 11th Annual PASA Premier ConfeX.

The in-person audience votes on the award nominations to decide the winner.

Three Finalists for each award are invited to present their submission case study live in the plenary session at Premier ConfeX on 18 October 2023.

 

Winners are presented at the end of the annual conference on day two, 19 October 2023.

 

How to nominate

 

Step 1. Read the entry criteria and nomination tips

 

Step 2. Complete Section 1 and Section 2 on this form. Attach any additional information as a word document or email it to lesley@pasa.net.au

 

Step 3. Pay a donation to the Heart Foundation via the link provided on this application form.

 

 

Nomination tips

 
1.      Read the evaluation criteria! Address the evaluation criteria explicitly as Judges award marks against this framework.

2.      Signpost your submission with headings as this helps the judges navigate your document. Aim for brevity

3.      Be honest about challenges and barriers

4.      Do not include confidential commercially-sensitive information or data

5.      If you engaged external support, such as a consultancy, state what was their role and what was your role. If you worked with a supplier, perhaps get them to contribute part of the content

6.      The judges will score content not (just) presentation. Bullet points are fine

7.      Not all initiatives succeed, but if you can provide evidence of results that would help; a testimonial, quantified results, percentage improvement etc

8.      In assessing the award, quite generally, the judges will be considering elements such as:

·         The complexity of the organisation

·         The business context of the team

·         The stakeholder issues/challenges and their management by the team

·         The outcome and how this met the needs of key stakeholders

·         The ingenuity involved in designing the solution

·         The relative improvement of the team in the process, over simple                    achievement in itself.

 

Question 1 - The business case for improvement (600 word limit)

• What were the barriers or challenges that were faced in gaining support for improvement?
• What evidence is presented of how the business case for investing in the procurement team was developed?
• What barriers or challenges needed to be overcome? And what was the context of Procurement status or current benchmark of achievement?

Question 2 - Core initiatives for improvement (600 word limit)

• What initiatives helped improve the procurement team?
• What evidence is provided of capability uplift or other development interventions to improve the procurement team?
• What was done, how and by whom?

 

Question 3 - Scale of improvement and outcomes (600 word limit)

• What was the scale of improvement? 
• What evidence is presented about the scale of improvement from the original level of team capability to the current level of capability?
•  What is the perceived current level of capability?

There is an official entry fee of $45 plus GST which can be paid direct to The Australian Heart Foundation in the below link. All entry money will be donated by PASA to the Australian Heart Foundation in memory of Nigel Wardropper.

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