WINNERS 2021
Overall Winner
New Kaupapa Māori Primary (Community) Mental Health and Addiction Services Procurement
Ministry of Health New Zealand
Mental Health concerns disproportionately impact the Māori population. Traditional “western-clinical” approaches to services have not delivered improved outcomes. Traditional procurement methods…
Best Approach to Risk Mitigation
Air New Zealand
Project Rongoā
As part of Air New Zealand’s crisis response, a cross-functional team led a comprehensive review of the airlines contestable spend base to rapidly reduce cost…
Best Collaborative Teamwork Project
Coles Group
Coles Non-Trade Source to Pay Transformation
Procurement, partnering with Finance, Technology, Legal, Risk & Compliance with our diverse Supermarket, Liquor, Express, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing and Technology…
Best Use of Digital Technology
TAFE NSW
Launching the TAFE NSW Checkout
On 1 June 2020, TAFE Procurement launched the TAFE NSW Checkout – delivered on-time and under budget. Led by the Head of Procurement Capability and championed by the GM Procurement…
Commitment to Increasing Supplier diversity
Tagai Management Consultants
In the Black Indigenous business resilience program
At the height of the pandemic in early 2020 Tagai Management Consultants (TMC) sought funding support from Charles Darwin University – Northern Institute’s for the innovative…
Commitment to People Development
Augment Resources
Commercial Analyst Program
In 2020 Westpac re-aligned outsourced/offshored procurement operations within Technology Sourcing to improve user experience. Augment Resources was engaged to…
Most Improved Procurement Process
Macquarie University
ProcureRight Framework Development and Introduction
Macquarie University’s ProcureRight framework is based on three fundamental principles: Trust, Empowerment, Accountability. It…
Best Example of Supply Chain Resilience in a Crisis
Coles Group
Coles Group COVID-19 Response (non-Trade)
The non-trade Procurement Team are exceptionally proud of the contribution from its suppliers, internal stakeholders and own team in keeping our 3000+ stores and distribution centres open…
Best Initiative to Deliver Social Value through Procurement
Ministry of Health New Zealand
New Kaupapa Māori Primary (Community) Mental Health and Addiction Services Procurement
Mental Health concerns disproportionately impact the Māori population. Traditional “western-clinical” approaches to services have not delivered improved outcomes…
Procurement Consultancy Project of the Year
Kelly Outsourcing and Consultancy Group
Large, complex and highly successful implementation in Transport for NSW
Transport for NSW (TfNSW), the largest ‘Cluster Agency’ of the NSW Government in Australia, awarded KellyOCG to deliver a Managed Service Provision (MSP), Contractor Central…
Sustainable Procurement Project of the Year
Woolworths Group
Sustainable Bakery Packaging
A cross-functional team from Woolworths Group, led by procurement undertook an initiative to reduce the ‘sea of plastic’ in our bakery packaging. Through innovative techniques including a hackathon…
Procurement Team of the Year – Large Organisation
Coles Group
Coles Non-Trade Procurement
We are proud of our achievements in 2020: Delivered over $150m benefits for the Smarter Selling company strategy for structural cost reduction, which overall achieved cost savings in excess of $250 million for FY20…
Public Procurement Project of the Year
Ministry of Health New Zealand
New Kaupapa Māori Primary (Community) Mental Health and Addiction Services Procurement
Mental Health concerns disproportionately impact the Māori population. Traditional “western-clinical” approaches to services have not delivered improved outcomes…
Young Talent
Jacinta Taliauli
Senior Procurement Advisor, Ministry for Pacific Peoples
Jacinta Taliauli currently works as a senior procurement advisor for the Ministry of Pacific Peoples, where she uses her well-honed skills to deliver high quality and effective…
Leader of the Year
Jodi Huebert
General Manager, Contracts and Procurement, INPEX
Pushing procurement strategy forward Jodi Huebert was appointed into a new Head of Procurement role at Pacific National (PN) in 2018, a role….