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-

care@nigp.org

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) tward@utah.gov

Financial: Garret Johnston (State Procurement) gkjohnston@utah.gov

Historian: Nikki Sanchez (State Procurement) nsanchez@utah.gov

Membership: Debbie Smith (Granite SD) dlsmith@graniteschools.org

Marketing/Public Relations: Glendon Mitchell (UofU) gmitchell@purchasing.utah.edu

Education: Mike Smith (UofU) msmith@purchasing.utah.edu

Nominating: Jared Gardner (Granite SD)

jbgardner@graniteschools.org

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: tonya.hodges@slcschools.org

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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: jbgardner@graniteschools.org 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.