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Cronin Award for Procurement Excellence
 NASPO Recognizes Innovation in State Government Procurement The 2012 George Cronin Awards for Procurement Excellence recognizes  Arizona, Oregon and Texas

For Oregon, this was their second year in a row to be chosen as the Gold Cronin Award winner. The winning program was Oregon's Statewide Fleet Program, ‘Direct Dealership Price Agreements'. The state's procurement team collected the necessary data to perform cost and price analysis that allowed them to target the appropriate areas for negotiation to reduce costs in the Statewide Fleet Program.

 
The Silver Cronin Award was presented to Texas for its TEX-AN Next Generation Procurement. Texas's Department of Information Resources (DIR) recognized their statewide communication network that supported over 700 customers continued to have bandwidth issues as services and technology expanded. DIR took on the task of transferring their statewide communication services to a cloud-based solution that can continue to grow and expand with the needs of the state at minimal cost.
 
Arizona was named the winner of the Bronze Cronin Award with their submission Driving State Procurement Decisions Using Business Intelligence. After implementing their own eProcurement system, Arizona found a way to capitalize off of their investment by constructing a business development framework that would focus on gathering and presenting data in a useful and easy to read manner using Key Performance Indicators of Efficiency, Quality and Consistency. This framework combines a robust eProcurement Solution and business intelligence that together provide the need to more efficiently analyze procurement data to drive management decisions.
 

The George Cronin Award for Procurement Excellence is recognized as a premier achievement for innovative public procurement and pays homage to a founder and the first president of NASPO, George J. Cronin. Since 1985, the Cronin Awards have recognized ground-breaking state procurement programs and promoted the sharing of ideas between states.


Past Cronin Award Winners:

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1985-2002

  • 2002: Alaska Long Distance Learning
  • 2001: Idaho Purchasing Modernization Initiative
  • 2000: Utah Vehicle Purchase Program
  • 1999: Ohio Natural Gas Purchasing Program
  • 1998: Missouri PC Prime Vendor Contract
  • 1997: Wisconsin Advantis Credit Bureau Access Program
  • 1996: North Carolina Micro-Computer & Peripherals Contract as Developed and Managed on the Internet
  • 1995: none selected
  • 1994: none selected
  • 1993: Minnesota Document management system
  • 1992: Oregon Vendor information program
  • 1991: Arizona Contract for abatement of underground storage tanks
  • 1990: New York Contract for electronic ballasts
  • 1989: Missouri Pharmacy service contract for correctional facilities
  • 1988: Kansas Freight management systems
  • 1987: West Virginia Natural gas contract
  • 1986: Alaska Video - "A Better Way To Buy"
  • 1985: Missouri Competitive bidding of residential rehabilitation services