Tayside Procurement Consortium Honoured at Scottish Awards

Tayside Procurement Consortium (TPC) was honoured for outstanding achievement at the second Government Opportunities (GO) Excellence in Public Procurement Awards Scotland. TPC was presented as Highly Commended in the John F McClelland Collaborative Procurement category at the event held in Glasgow on 28 October 2009. The winner in the category was Procurement Scotland.

Accepting the Award, Allan Harrow, TPC Head of Procurement, said: “We’re really pleased to receive this Award. I think it reflects the hard work that the teams across the councils involved and Tayside Contracts have put into this initiative and I’m pleased with the recognition that the team has received.”

Picture shows (l-r) Graham Steed - Managing Editor of GO Magazine, John McClelland CBE - Author of the 'Review of Public Procurement in Scotland', Shelley Moncur, Rhonda McKay, Elaine Brown and Allan Harrow - all TPC.

The judging panel for the Awards included many of the procurement and business community’s leading experts:

Gordon Dickson, Scottish Procurement Directorate;

Duncan Eaton, former Chief Executive of NHS PASA;

Barry Graham, Head of the Central Government Centre of Procurement Expertise

John McClelland CBE, author of the Review of Public Procurement in Scotland;

Iain McMillan CBE, Chief Executive, CBI Scotland;

Jim Miller, Director of Strategic Sourcing, NHSScotland;

Angus Warren, Chief Executive, Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges

Graham Steed, Managing Editor, Government Opportunities (GO) magazine.