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Guilio Mazzone Distinguished Service Award
 The George Cronin Awards for Procurement Excellence
NASPO proudly announces the
2008 George Cronin Awards for Procurement Excellence
The annual NASPO Cronin Awards for Procurement Excellence program seeks to recognize outstanding public procurement initiatives and promote the adoption of these ideas and practices throughout the states.
Awards
The NASPO Awards Committee will select up to three programs to receive the Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards. NASPO will cover the expenses of the Gold award winner to attend the 2008 Annual Conference, September 8-11, in St. Louis, Missouri. All winners will be recognized at the Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, September 9th.
NASPO will produce a summary of the award winning programs and distribute copies to all attendees at the annual conference. An electronic copy of the publication will be posted to the NASPO web site. Award winners will also be publicized in a press release and in letters to their governor and state administration executives.
Criteria
The following criteria will be used to judge each entry:
- Innovation (30 points) - unusual or unique approach, scale, or magnitude of effort; conceptual originality
- Transferability (25 points) - practical ability by other states to replicate or use as a benchmark, considering expected resources required and generality of the legal or structural environment in which the entry was implemented
- Service Improvement (25 points) - extent to which transactions or service delivery is made more effective; involvement of agencies/users in development & implementation of program or project
- Cost Reduction (20 points) - validated or potential for cost reduction, including considerations of efficiency
Eligibility
There is no defined period in which an initiative must have been implemented, except that sufficient data must be available to document the benefits and/or potential benefits realized. Each state or territory may submit up to three entries.
Submission Guidelines
All nominations must be submitted in electronic form and should include the following elements:
- completed nomination form
- one-page executive summary of the nominated program suitable for posting on the NASPO web site; and
- three-page description of how the program has improved the operation and/or efficiency of state government and meets the criteria listed above.
Nominations may also include selected supporting documentation or other written materials that showcase the initiative. However, the supporting documentation will not be independently evaluated, and nominations must clearly incorporate the material in the program description.
To submit a nomination, go to:
https://www.amrms.com/ssl/naspo/secure/2008CroninNominations.cfm
NOTE: Deadline for entries is 5:00 p.m. EDT, on Monday, June 30, 2008. Due to the timeframe of the conference this year, no extensions will be granted.
For more information, visit http://www.naspo.org/awards/ or contact Julie Gudlewski, NASPO Program Coordinator, at (859) 514-9154 or jgudlewski@AMRms.com.
2007 George Cronin Awards for Procurement Excellence Winners
- Gold: Minnesota Spend Analysis System
- Silver: District of Columbia Surplus Property Disposal
- Bronze: Georgia Procurement Transformation Initiative
Click here for a complete summary of all of the 2007 Cronin Awards submissions.
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