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Dear Colleagues:
I just returned last week from the NIGP forum in Orlando, Florida. It was a great experience learning new things and meeting new people. One thing I’ve learned over the years is that you’ll never be in this business long enough to stop learning; and attendance at this year’s Forum was certainly no exception. In any training situation, I try to write down any ideas and comments I hear that are new tome. At the Forum this year I did write plenty. I am looking forward to our chapter meeting this month so that we can share some of the things that we experienced at Forum.
The NIGP picnic last month was also a great success. Our attendance this year was double what it was at our first picnic just two years ago. It was so nice to see so many people come and eat, visit and enjoy themselves. This annual event has now become a tradition and should continue. I hope the attendance will continue to grow in the future. It’s a great opportunity to associate and mingle with fellow procurement professionals in a non-professional environment, get to know each other better, exchange ideas, or simply talk informally.
We’ll see you soon as the September chapter meeting. I want to thank each of you for all you do to support our chapter and our great profession.
Sincerely,
Adrian Ruger
President, NIGP Utah Chapter
Chapter President’s Message
N I G P – U t a h
C h a p t e r
Procurement News
S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 3 P r o c u r e m e n t N e w s
I n s i d e T h i s I s s u e :
Chapter President’s
Message
Utah Chapter News
Upcoming Meeting
Dates
Classroom Corner
Special Notes/
Announcements
Speaker Biographies
NIGP– Utah Chapter Of-
ficers:
President: Adrian Ruger,
C.P.M., CPPB
Vice-President: Trever
Ward
Secretary: Jennifer Porter
Treasurer: Tyler Barnes
Past President: Jared
Gardner, C.P.M., CPPO
Board of Directors:
Greg Maynard, C.P.M.,
CPPO
Tracie Montano, CPPB
Polly Alles
Adrian Ruger– President
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“I do the very best I
know how– the very
best I can; and I mean
to keep doing so until
the end. If the end
brings me out all right,
what is said against me
won’t amount to
anything. If the end
brings me out wrong,
ten angels swearing I
was right would make
no difference.”
-Abraham Lincoln
Upcoming Meeting Dates
MEETING LOCATION: All chapter meetings will be held at the State of Utah
Multi-Agency Building, 195 N. 1950 W. Room 1020C. , Salt Lake City. Meetings
will be held 9:00 am—12:00 pm.
Utah Chapter News
P r o c u r e m e n t N e w s
Tuesday, Sept 17, 2013: RFP Selection Committee Nancy Orton & Jennifer Porter– State Purchasing NIGP Forum Updates Adrian Ruger, Trever Ward, Tyler Barnes, Garrett Johnston, Kurt Prusse, Sharon Pierce, Debbie Smith Tuesday, Nov 19, 2013: Topic and Speakers TBD
NIGP NATIONAL has made several online courses available. For more in-
formation on these courses, visit www.nigp.org , or email customer-
Basics of Business Math Business Communication– Written Communication
Fundamentals of Business Management Leading High-Performance Teams
Negotiating Skills– Influence and Persuasion Project Management
Time Management Fundamentals
VOLUNTEER to serve on a chapter committee! If you are interested, please
contact the committee chairperson listed below:
Committee Chairpersons
Honors & Awards: Trever Ward (UDOT) [email protected]
Financial: Garret Johnston (State Procurement) [email protected]
Historian: Nikki Sanchez (State Procurement) [email protected]
Membership: Debbie Smith (Granite SD) [email protected]
Marketing/Public Relations: Glendon Mitchell (UofU) [email protected]
Education: Mike Smith (UofU) [email protected]
Nominating: Jared Gardner (Granite SD)
NIGP– Utah Chapter Summer Social 2013
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A big “Thank You” to those who organized our Summer Social this past August. Good food and great friends and colleagues made for a great night! Thanks also to those who participated with us. If you missed it, we hope you will consider joining us next year. We all need a little break!
Summer Fun!
Please Note:
Our next chapter meeting will be Tuesday, September 17,
2013. See you there!
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Special Notes/Announcements
Special Notes/Announcements (cont).
For newsletter submissions or comments, please contact Tonya Hodges, Newsletter Editor:
Phone:: 801-578-8261 ; Email: [email protected]
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Upcoming NIGP Webinars
(Complimentary for Members/$185 for Non-Members. Register at www.nigp.org )
Thursday, Sept 12, 2013: Performance Metrics– The Key to Showing Your Worth to the Organization
Thursday, Sept 26, 2013: 2012 Benchmark Survey Results
Thursday, Oct 03, 2013: Risk Management
Thursday, Oct 24, 2013: Evaluating Costs in RFP’s
Thursday, Nov 14, 2013: Qualitative Evaluation Criteria
(On-Demand Webinar Recordings are also available for purchase in the NIGP Online Store)
Chapter Annual Elections
Ever thought of running for a position on our board, but just couldn’t bring yourself to commit? Let me
list a few reasons to help you make the jump:
1. You bring something to the table that no other individual does. Your experience, insights, and tal-
ents would shed new light and add strength to our chapter.
2. It will help your career. Anyone who has served on the board is better networked and has added a
valuable service component to their resume.
3. You will grow. Stepping outside of your comfort zone will allow you to grow professionally in ways
that you could not otherwise.
4. You will make great friends.
What excuses popped into your heads? Admit it, you just had excuses immediately come into your
mind as you read this and you felt just a bit guilty for being a partaker of the services of the chapter and
having never given back. Well, I have just the solution for you. Please contact me (phone: 385-646-4564
or email: [email protected] and inquire about how you can assist our fine chapter.
I encourage you to join with us and better our chapter and your career.
Thank you,
Jared Gardner
Past President
Speaker Biographies (Selected)
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Nancy Orton, CPM– Deputy Director, State of Utah Division of Purchasing
Nancy is one of two Deputy Director’s for the State of Utah Division of Pur-
chasing and has given over 30 years of service to State Purchasing. In case you
are wondering, Nancy was hired by the State at the ripe old age of 13! :)
Throughout her career with State Purchasing, Nancy has been responsible for
managing a variety of commodities and has acquired extensive experience
with solicitation processes, contract administration procedures, and is extreme-
ly knowledgeable in our state’s procurement laws as they apply to both the
procurement process and contract administration. Nancy has earned her Certi-
fied Purchasing Manager endorsement through the Institute for Supply Man-
agement (ISM) and has been instrumental in State Purchasing receiving the
National Purchasing Institute’s Achievement of Excellence in Procurement for
the past 3 years.
In addition to her duties as a Deputy Director, Nancy has taken on the respon-
sibility of acting as Purchasing’s agency procurement coordinator. As an agen-
cy procurement coordinator, Nancy spends one-on-one time with agency’s ex-
ecutive management and their procurement personnel in order to help them
understand the State of Utah Procurement Code requirements, solicitation pro-
cesses and procedures, and assists agencies in resolving contract administra-
tion issues. She was also recently voted the Utah Division of Purchasing’s
Manager of the Year for 2013.