Entries are now open for the PASA Annual Procurement in Practice Awards 2024 – named ‘The Nigels’ in 2020, in memory of PASA’s late founder Nigel Wardropper.
The peer-reviewed winners will be announced at The 12th Annual PASA Premier Confex, which will take place on 16-17 October at the Flemington Racecourse Conference Centre in Melbourne.
The top three shortlisted finalists in each category will present their 10-minute case study entry, live in person, in the plenary session of the largest and most influential procurement event in the ANZ region.
In addition to the primary award, which recognises the most improved procurement team of 2024, this year’s two new award categories are:
- The Best Procurement Project 2024: Private Sector – sponsored by GEP
- The Best Procurement Project 2024: Public Sector – sponsored & endorsed by the APCC
Both categories recognise the alignment of defined value delivery of a particular project in a measured, responsible and professional way.
This may involve understanding the organisation’s objectives and business priorities, and then aligning responsible value delivery to those priorities.
In addition, it may involve consulting with stakeholders to find out what they regard as value from the procurement process, while balancing the delivery of strong and timely outcomes including compliance, savings, risk, terms, ESG goals and other aims within the context of assurance of supply.
The most prestigious award, won last year by RAAFA WA, is the Most Improved Procurement Team Award.
Never sponsored but presented solely in PASA’s name, this coveted award recognises the greatest improvement in a procurement team’s capability – through either people, process, technology, strategic, organisational or cultural improvement, or just good leadership, specifically recognisable in the previous year.
It reflects Nigel Wardropper’s strong passion that relative improvement is a greater prize than scale or inherited corporate capability.
A donation of all entry fees from this award is doubled each year by PASA and donated to The Heart Foundation in memory of Nigel. This category can recognise any procurement team of any size and any length of tenure.
The judging panel, led by PASA columnist and renowned industry leader Paul Rogers FCIPS, will shortlist three entries from each of the three award categories.
Audience members then vote the winners in each category using the conference app, effectively peer-reviewing the shortlisted entries.
The winners are presented with special engraved trophies on day two of the conference.
Lesley Wardropper, Nigel’s wife and PASA managing director, urged procurement teams of all sizes from across the region to get their submissions in and highlight their recent achievements both internally and externally.
“Our unique format allows for learnings to be shared with everyone and to play a clear role in the development of the profession,” she said.
Nominations are open until 16th September.
