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Chief Administrative Office, Procurement and Contracts Division, presenting the Board of Supervisors with the 2022 Achievement of Excellence in Procurement Award. (Cont. 9/20/2022, Item 28)
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Every year the National Procurement Institute, Inc. accepts applications for an Achievement of Excellence in Procurement award. For the first time, the Procurement and Contracts division submitted an application package for this prestigious award. The County was notified in August that the County of El Dorado was one of 171 agencies in the United States and Canada and one of 36 Counties to receive the award.
To receive the award, the applicant must obtain a total of 100 points based on multiple categories. The County had the option to be scored on a total of 28 different categories with 200 points available (attachment A). The County's application package included information related to 18 categories for a total possible score of 130 points. The County was awarded a final score of 120 points.
The 18 categories that the County submitted information on included the following:
1. Establishment of a "Procurement Ethics" policy - Awarded full points
3. Established a procurement staff "professional development" program - Awarded full points
4a. Completed a formal internal survey of procurement performance- Awarded full points
4b. Completed a formal external survey of procurement performance - Awarded full points
4d. Formal vendor training within the past year with scheduled and agendized workshop - Awarded full points
4e. Performance measures specific to the procurement function - Awarded full points
5. Centralized procurement authority based in law - Awarded full points
6. Procurement Organizational Structure - Awarded full points
7a. Utilization of eProcurement and automated technology to improve efficiencies (electronic sourcing) - Awarded full points
7b. Utilization of eProcurement and automated technology to improve eff...
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