ACT News
| ACT Regional Chair: | Robyn Hardy |
| ACT Regional Vice Chair: | Troy Watkins |
| Contact Email: | act@cipsa.com.au |
Latest News and Events
ACT government phasing out battery eggs
(Source: WorldPoultry.net)
Australia's ACT government will phase out the use of battery farmed eggs in 2008. Non-battery eggs are to be used exclusively as of May 2009.
ACT Health, ACT public schools and the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) have been identified as the biggest egg users. According to chief minister Jon Stanhope, CIT is already using barn-laid eggs instead of battery products. He said that government agencies would follow suit as soon as possible.
Open Training Courses Booking Out Quickly
Courses are filling up quickly for CIPSA’s 2008 Open Training programme. More than 200 places have been booked during March, so to avoid disappointment, book your place now!
The programme offers a wide range of non-assessed training courses designed to enhance procurement skills and disseminate relevant professional knowledge quickly and easily. To view a list of courses available visit http://www.cips.org/membership/australia/opentraining/
See the full 2008 Open Training Calendar here.
Download the full PDF brochure here (1.8 MB)
Book Now - 200+ bookings already in March!
Download an electronic booking form here. (Word).
See Terms & Conditions here
ACT Calendar of Events
Mark your diary now for these ACT events coming up in the first half of 2008. More dates will arise, so remember to keep an eye out on the ACT Events page.
The first ACT events in 2008 are:
15 May- Introduction to Procurement
16 May - Improve your Procurement skills
21-22 May – 3rd Public Sector Procurement Forum – National Convention Centre
26 May - Tender Evaluation (1)
27 May- Reducing Total Cost
13 Jun - Business Negotiation
25 Jun - Effective Expediting
29 July - Socially Responsible Procurement
25 Aug - Tender Evaluation (2)
18- 19 Sep - Negotiation Masterclass
NSW courses you may be interested in:
11 April - Fundamentals of Contract Law (Parramatta)
26 May - Category Management (please note this date has changed from 23 May)
1 July - Supplier Relationship Management
7 July - Supplier Evaluation
8 July - Risk Management
22-23 July - Stakeholder Influencing Skills
7-8 August - Contract Law Masterclass (Parramatta)
Procurement of Art Event
The ACT Region threw a very successful event at the Canberra art gallery last week, with a full capacity crowd attending a presentation by Peter Haynes, director of ACT Museum and Galleries. The presentation was well received with lots of questions on the intricacies of procuring art. The presentation was followed by a private tour of the galleries and networking. Thank you to all of the guests who attended the evening.
If you would like to make a suggestion for the next event in ACT, or provide a venue, speaker, or would like to sponsor an event, email chair Robyn Hardy, act@cipsa.com.au
Contribute to your local news
Always considered yourself a bit of a Clark Kent? Procurement Super Hero by day, sleuth journalist by night? Well we would love to see your talent, and even if you don’t have the talent, we would still love to hear the gossip from your region. Got any news on movers and shakers, big contracts awarded, something local to your region, or country? Send in your article, or link to an article on the web and if we think its newsworthy we will publish it in the monthly newsletter. Deadlines for each newsletter is the last week of each month, so get in your submissions now. Submissions will be by-lined by agreement. Email marketing@cipsa.com.au with the subject line <Your Region> Newsletter Submission.
Meet your new Chair and Vice Chair.
ACT Chair: Robyn Hardy
Acting executive director, ACT Procurement Solutions (a division of ACT Treasury)
Robyn has had a long and varied career in the public service, both in the Commonwealth and the ACT Governments. She is an economist, having studied for her undergraduate degree at James Cook University of North Queensland. She has also completed a Masters Degree in public policy at the Australian National University (ANU) and is currently studying for her Doctorate at ANU.
Email Robyn at act@cipsa.com.au
ACT Vice Chair: Troy Watkins
Senior manager, KPMG
Troy has 20 years of experience and expertise, including consulting and operational roles in both domestic and international environments. Prior to joining KPMG, Troy was senior manager with McGrathNicol+Partners in the corporate advisory group specialising in project management, strategic
procurement and business transformation; a senior strategic procurement adviser and business analyst for Airservices Australia; a manager in the financial risk management division of the Commonwealth Bank
of Australia; and a manager with Ernst & Young’s assurance and advisory division in Sydney, Australia.
Email Troy at act@cipsa.com.au
NZ and Australia join to make public service more sustainable
The New Zealand and Australian governments have established the first trans-Tasman joint framework for sustainable government procurement to ensure that public sector organisations in both countries consider the environmental credentials of goods and services they buy, according to www.scoop.co.nz.
The move to work with the Australians on sustainable procurement follows the New Zealand government’s recent announcement on its own mandated environmental standards, guidelines and targets for the public service.
For the full press release visit the direct link here.
