The first ever National Procurement Awards ceremony was held in Dublin, attended by over 350 procurement professionals from both the private and public sectors. Symantec won multiple awards including the prestigious Overall Excellence in Procurement Award. Eamon Lally of Mayo General Hospital received the Procurement Leader award. The awards highlighted the importance of procurement in helping organizations reduce costs and increase efficiencies.

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Stage at New Awards
Over 350 procurement professionals, from both the private and public sector, attended
the first ever National Procurement Awards at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin.
The awards attracted just under 100 entries, with 48 of those making the final cut.
A distinguished panel of judges selected the 13 eventual winners.
Symantec were the big success on the night picking up the prestigious ‘Overall
Excellence in Procurement Award’ as well as ‘Best Cross Functional Procurement
Management’ and ‘Best Procurement Team’.
Eamon Lally, of Mayo General Hospital, was the recipient of the ‘Procurement
Overall Excellence in Procurement- Procurement Leader- Eamonn Lally, Best Procurement Team- Symantec. Best Cross Functional Procurement
Leader’ award. Symantec. Symantec Head of Mayo General Hospital. Armin Samali, Accenture Supply Management- Symantec.
Jane O’Keefe, President of the IIPMM said, ‘These inaugural awards show how Strategic Sourcing, Anne Stewart, Jane O’Keeffe, President of IIPMM Chain and Procurement Practice Gerry Drum, Group Enterprise
important the procurement function is to organisations seeking to drive down costs receives the supreme award, Overall presents Eamonn Lally of Mayo Lead for Ireland, hands over the Best Manager, Independent Newspapers,
and improve efficiencies. We congratulate the winners and thank the organisers and Excellence in Procurement, from General Hospital with the trophy for Procurement Team award to Anne present Anne Stewart and Matt Baier
sponsors for making these awards possible.’ Accenture’s Country Managing Procurement Leader. Stewart, Head of Strategic Sourcing at of Symantec, with the award for
Director, Mark Ryan. Symantec. Best Cross Functional Procurement
The findings from the first ever National Procurement Survey, conducted by Main Management.
Partner Accenture, were also revealed at the awards. Armin Samali, Senior Executive
and Supply Chain Management lead Accenture Ireland said, ‘The survey shows that
the most proficient procurement operations - those deemed ‘masters’ – are those that
have a clear mandate from top management and go beyond simply cutting costs and
actually add value by strategically segmenting their supplier base. Our research found
that in-house procurement functions have been instrumental in reducing company
costs over the last 12 months, with the majority (85%) high performing and reporting
a minimum six per cent contribution to bottom line savings which reflects a high
degree of procurement excellence locally’.
The awards were judged by a distinguished panel of procurement professionals from Innovation in Private Procurement- Innovation in Public Procurement- Green Public Sector Procurement- Green Private Sector Procurement-
business, pubic sector and academia. The panel included; Abbott Ireland. Trinity College and UCD. Office of Public Works - Furniture C & C Group. John Stephens of
Eddie Scaife, Commercial Director ARAMARK Ireland’s Commercial Services. John Gormley, Minister John Stephens Consulting presents
Paul Davis - Chair MBS Strategic Procurement DCU of ARAMARK, presents Stephen Director, Eddie Scaife, presents Trinity for the Environment, Heritage and the trophy for Green Private Sector
Paddy McMenamin - Group Head of Purchasing Dublin Airport Authority Nolan, Abbott Ireland’s Planning and College Dublin’s Senior Buyer Trevor Local Government, presents Director Procurement to Susan Byrne of the
Paul Hannigan - Head of Procurement, Green Isle Foods Purchasing Manager, with the award Kerley, and the Head of Purchasing of Furniture Services at the Office of C & C Group.
for Innovation in Private Procurement. at UCD Turlough Kieran, with the Public Works, Robert Guihen, with
Philip Lee - Founder and Managing Partner, Philip Lee Solicitors trophy for Innovation in Public the award for Green Public Sector
Alec Dolan - Principal Officer, Department of Justice and Board Member, NPS Procurement. Procurement.
John O’Neill - Department of Environment,
Heritage and Local Government
John McKeon - Procurement Director, Europe
Materials division of CRH PLC.
The National Procurement Awards are devised
and organised by Event Strategies. For further
details and a list of winners please visit
www.procurementawards.ie
For further information about The National
Procurement Awards 2011 please email Best use of Technology in Best People Development Initiative- Excellence in Public Procurement Excellence in Private Procurement Healthcare Procurement- HSE
info@procurementawards.ie Procurement- Bord na Móna. Pfizer. Jane O’Keeffe, President of the involving indigenous SMEs- SME- Bgate Technology. Procurement Portfolio & Category
Gerard O’Neill, CEO and Chairman Irish Institute of Purchasing Materials Temetra. Enterprise Ireland’s Head Clare McGrath, Chairman of the Management Kilkenny. Clare
of Amárach Research, presents the Management, presents Pfizer’s of Public Procurement, Stephen Office of Public Works awards Phillip McGrath, Chairman of the OPW,
Sponsors trophy for Best use of Technology in Manager of European Procurement, Hughes, presents Temetra’s Managing Sarrat, Sales Director for Bgate presents Leader of the NIMIS project
Procurement to Declan McDonnell, John Ryan, with the trophy for Best Director, Paul Barry, with the trophy Technology, with the trophy for for HSE Procurement, Miriam Rourke,
Group Procurement Manager at Bord People Development Initiative. for Excellence in Public Procurement Excellence in Private Procurement with the award for Health Sector
na Móna. SME. SME. Procurement.