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爱尔兰采购网12月23日消息 在周三(12月16日:编者注)晚上举行的2015年全国采购和供应链奖颁奖仪式上,(爱尔兰)政府采购办公室(OGP)被授予公共采购优秀奖。来自公共部门和私营经济的采购职业人士都参加了颁奖典礼。
专门负责公共采购的国务部长西蒙·哈里斯·T.D.对获奖表示欢迎,他说:“政府采购办公室是公共服务领域采购管理征途上的重要一步,虽然OGP是个相对较新的组织,但我们已经能够看到她是如何有助于改变采购图景的。这个奖项是对OGP的艰苦工作和所取得成就的检测和肯定。”
关于政府采购办公室(OGP)
(爱尔兰)政府采购办公室(OGP)正式设立于2013年,是由公共预算与改革部长和公共服务改革国务部长会同公共工程办公室一起设立的。OGP的恢复是为公共采购带来更加专业的整体政府采购达成途径,以加强推动采购市场提高效率性、简易性、连续性和标准化程度。其目标是在公共采购市场推动公平、透明和公开竞争,通过更为集中的公共采购实体机构带来持续的节约,为纳税人实现更多价值。
OGP的主要目标是汇总制定一体化的政府采购整体政策和战略,将采购操作整合到一个办公室内,加强开支分析和数据管理;保证预算显著节约并提高风险管理水平,加强供应商履约执行管理。
这个奖项的获得是对以上改革措施和相关执行工作的认可。上千的公共部门使用者从这一改革框架和通过OGP达成的合同中受益。
政府采购主任、OGP首席执行官保罗·奎因在发表获奖感言时说:“政府采购办公室的使命就是为纳税人带来持续的节约,我们正是这么做的,我们让每个希望赢得政府合同的公司以一种公开、公平和透明的方式竞争。值此OGP第一个整年的运作即将结束之际,我非常高兴我们迄今的工作在这个盛大的颁奖典礼上获得首肯。我很高兴借此机会发表感言,向大家汇报我们在OGP所做的那些工作,再次感谢所有公共部门的职员,他们积极参与,与OGP密切合作至今。”
全国采购奖旨在鼓励采购团队和个人不断提高职业门槛,鼓励创新,努力进取,创造辉煌。评委擢选自国家、半官方和私营部门,根据制定的总体上很高的标准,克服重重困难,精心评选,最终确定了优胜者。
附原文: OGP wins Public Procurement Excellence Award at The National Procurement & Supply Chain Awards 2015
The OGP was awarded the Public Procurement Excellence Award on Wednesday night’s National Procurement & Supply Chain Awards 2015. The awards ceremony was attended by procurement professionals from both the public and private sector.
Welcoming the award, Simon Harris TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for Public Procurement said, “The Office of Government Procurement is a major step forward in the way procurement is managed across the public service. Although the OGP is a relatively new organisation we can already see how it is helping to transform the procurement landscape. This award is testament to the hard work and achievements of the OGP”.
The Office of Government Procurement
The Office of Government Procurement (OGP) was officially launched in July 2013 by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister of State for Public Service Reform and the Office of Public Works. The remit of the OGP is to bring a more professional and whole-of-government approach to public procurement to drive increased efficiency, simplicity, consistency and standardisation in addressing markets. Its aim is to drive fair, transparent and open competition in the market place, while delivering sustainable savings and better value for the taxpayer through greater aggregation of purchasing public bodies.
The main objectives of the OGP are to integrate a whole-of-government procurement policy, strategy and operations into one office; to strengthen spend analytics and data management; to secure significant savings for the Exchequer and to improve the management of risk and supplier performance.
This award is an endorsement of the reforms and of the work that is underway to implement them. Thousands of Public Sector customers are benefiting from the frameworks and contracts delivered by the OGP.
Commenting on the awards, Paul Quinn, Government Chief Procurement Officer and CEO of the OGP said: “The OGP’s mission is to deliver sustainable savings for the taxpayer and we are doing this in a way that enables any business who wants to win a government contract to compete in an open, fair and transparent manner. As we approach the end of the OGP’s first full year of operation, I am pleased that our work to date has been recognised at this prestigious awards ceremony. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the commitment and capability of those working in the OGP and to thank all our public sector clients for their positive engagement with the OGP to date”.
The National Procurement Awards aim to encourage procurement teams and individuals to constantly raise the bar, to innovate and to maintain their commitment to achieving excellence. The judges - drawn from the State, semi-State and private sectors - commented on the overall high standards which made choosing the eventual winners all the more difficult.