2022 Buy Queensland Buyer Award nominations

Nominations for the 2022 Buy Queensland  Buyer Awards are now closed. 

Thank you for your interest in the 2022 Buy Queensland Buyer Awards. Please stay tuned to see this year’s finalists and winners! 

If you have any questions about the awards, please email the Queensland Government Procurement team at skills2procure@epw.qld.gov.au.

• Category 1: Excellence in delivering on the objectives of the Queensland Procurement Policy

  To nominate in this category, you will provide a justification on how an individual or project team has delivered the principles of the Queensland Procurement Policy which include:

  • putting Queenslanders first when securing value for money – ensuring value for money reflects more than just lowest price
  • advancement of economic, environmental and social objectives – supporting the long-term wellbeing of our community
  • integrity, probity and accountability – ensuring procurement is undertaken with integrity, and that probity and accountability for outcomes is maintained
  • leaders in procurement practice – professionalising the procurement discipline and building procurement capability, to ensure buyers can deliver better outcomes and engage with the market effectively
  • working together to achieve outcomes – across agency boundaries to improve procurement outcomes
  • governance and planning – focusing on a strong planning approach that maintains the confidence of stakeholders and the community in the management of procurement.

  For clarity, your response need not address all the above principles – it can address one or some of the above.

• Category 2: Excellence in Procurement (Small team, Large team, New entrant to procurement discipline, Leadership)

  To nominate in this category, you will need to provide a justification against one of the following sub-categories, and how excellence in procurement has been delivered.

  Small team

  • A team comprised of less than or equal to 5 team members.
  • The procurement project executed by the small team can be of any value, across any location.
  • The nominated team will have demonstrated procurement outcomes that have delivered value for money outcomes, including economic, environmental and/or social benefits.

  Large team

  • A team comprised of more than 5 team members.
  • The procurement project executed by the large team can be of any value, across any location.
  • The nominated team will have demonstrated procurement outcomes that have delivered value for money outcomes, including economic, environmental and/or social benefits.

  New entrant (entrant into the discipline in the last 5 years)

  • An individual who has entered the procurement or contract management discipline in the last five years via either direct entry, graduate-level entry, or lateral entry from another unrelated discipline.
  • The nominated team will have demonstrated procurement outcomes that have delivered value for money outcomes, including economic, environmental and/or social benefits.

  Leadership (staff who manage a team or teams and have direct reports)

  • An individual who leads a team or teams and has direct reports (regardless of the classification level).
  • The nominated team will have demonstrated procurement outcomes that have delivered value for money outcomes, including economic, environmental and/or social benefits.

• Category 3: Innovation in procurement

  This category focusses on innovation in the procurement function and processes to achieve benefits and enhanced outcomes (rather than the procurement of innovative goods or services (e.g., the procurement of an innovative ICT solution, trialling of a prototype product)).

  To nominate in this category, you will need to provide detail:

  • A procurement function, process, procedure (or similar) that either an individual or team have innovated to achieve benefits and other enhanced outcomes (the innovation may have either changed or altered something pre-existing, or introduced something new to address a problem).

  For clarity, the benefits or other enhanced outcomes delivered by the innovation may achieved by, but is not limited to, the enhancement of value for money outcomes, along with improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of the procurement function or associated processes.

• Conditions of entry

  1. The 2022 Buy Queensland Buyer Awards (‘the Awards’) are being conducted by the State of Queensland through the Department of Energy and Public Works (‘the Department’).
  2. All information and instructions regarding the Awards published by the Department, including information published on the Engagement HQ Platform, form part of these Conditions of Entry.
  3. The Awards are open to any current employee(s) (hereafter referred to as ‘Nominees’) of a Queensland Government agency, where that entity meets the definition of an ‘Agency’ as defined by the Queensland Procurement Policy 2021.
  4. Nominees must be employed in either a permanent, temporary, or casual role with an Agency. Contractors working for an Agency are excluded from nominating themselves or being nominated.
  5. Nominees agree to be bound by these Conditions of Entry. Failure to abide by these Conditions of Entry may render a nomination ineligible for the Awards.
  6. Nominations open on Wednesday 30 March 2022 and close at 11.59PM on Tuesday 26 April 2022. The Department reserves the right to extend the final date of entry submissions. Late entries may be accepted at the Department’s sole and absolute discretion.
  7. All nominations need to be submitted via the Engagement HQ Platform. No responsibility will be taken for nominations which are not received by the closing date, including lost or misdirected nominations.
  8. The Department may change these Conditions of Entry or cancel or vary the Awards at any time. Notice of this will be given on the Department’s website.
  9. To be eligible, the subject matter (i.e., the procurement or contract management activity which is the subject of the nomination) must have either substantially occurred or been completed between 1 January 2021 and 26 April 2022.
  10. It is a matter for Nominees to determine whether to participate in the Awards. To the full extent permitted by law, the Department is not liable for any injury, damages, expenses or loss whatsoever (including but not limited to indirect or consequential loss) by reason or any act of omission of the Department or its officers, employees, subcontractors and agents in relation to the Awards.
  11. The Department and judging panel reserve the right to reject or disqualify a nomination, if in their sole discretion, the nomination is found at any stage not to have complied with these Conditions of Entry, information contained in the nomination is false, misleading, incomplete or indecipherable, or the nomination brings the Awards into public disrepute or ridicule, or offends public opinion, or reflects unfavourably upon the Awards’ reputation.
  12. By submitting a nomination, Nominees confirm that the information provided is not confidential and does not infringe the intellectual property or moral rights of a third party. Nominees also agree that in relation to all submission content that the Department has a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to edit, amend, copy, reproduce, use, publish and communicate to the public, in full or part, the material contained in the submission, including but not limited to photographs.
  13. By submitting a nomination Nominees agree that they may, both now and in future years, be contacted by departmental staff in relation to any mater related to the Awards.
      

      Promotion and marketing

  14. In submitting an Award nomination, Nominees agree to the Department using their personal information (including their name and image) and materials contained within the submission in connection with the Awards, to report on, publicise and promote the Awards, both now and in future years, including in print and online format, such as the Department’s websites and social media channels.
  15. Nominees may be requested by the Department to be photographed or filmed for promotional purposes to be used in future marketing and promotional activities.
  16. The winner(s) and highly commended nominee(s) (as determined by the judging panel) in each category may be invited to attend an Award ceremony which may be held in June 2022.
      

      The judging process

  17. Each Award category will be judged by a panel of suitable professionals selected by the Department.
  18. Nominees may only nominate for one Award category. Should Nominees nominate for more than one Award category the judging panel may, at their sole and absolute discretion, elect to not consider a nomination, or only consider a nomination for a single category of their choice.
  19. The judging panel may decide not to present an Award in a particular category if they do not consider that any Nominees meet a standard sufficient to warrant the presentation of an Award. The judging panel may also decide to present joint Award winners and/or present one or more Highly Commended commendations given in addition to, or instead of, an Award.
  20. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
  21. The judges reserve the right to determine the eligibility or otherwise of each nomination at any time and may transfer a nomination from one Award category to another if they consider it necessary.
  22. In no event will the Department or the judging panel be held responsible for any comment, viewpoint, or expression, whether direct or implied, concerning the standard or quality of a nomination.
  23. Nominees may be required to provide supplementary information, either verbally or in writing, to the judging panel.
  24. By submitting a nomination Nominees grant the Department permission to undertake a referee check(s).