About us
Achievement of Excellence in Procurement award
The Procurement Department earned the 2024 Achievement of Excellence in Procurement Award from the National Procurement Institute.
The AEP recognizes organizational excellence in public and non-profit procurement. The award criteria are designed to measure innovation, professionalism, e-procurement, productivity, and leadership attributes of the procurement function measure and provide benchmarks for public procurement best practices. The County was one of 198 agencies in the US and Canada, and one of 49 Counties to receive the award.
Our vision
Our vision is to promote success through collaboration with client departments by providing the highest quality, contracting services through full and open competition, inclusion, fairness and use of best practices.
Our mission
Our mission is to support the success of client departments by promoting a customer-focused business culture and developing high quality best value contracts and solutions to meet our community’s needs through increased competition, inclusion, and the use of best practices.
Our organization
Our team is organized along these functions and responsibilities:
- The Centralized Contracting Division manages the procurement activities related to all commodities, such as information technology, telecommunications, office technology, facilities, and medical patient care supply chain contracting activities.
- The Property Disposal Division disposes County surplus personal property properly through reuse and redistribution, sales, and auction to the public through contractors, donation to local non-profit organizations and government entities, or recycling in an environmentally and fiscally responsible manner.
- The eProcurement Division manages and maintains enterprise applications for the County. In addition, the eProcurement Division provides internal IT operations support to the Procurement Department and manages and maintains the Procurement's intranet and internet sites for the County.
- The Decentralized Contracting Unit provides leadership for countywide contracting, training, procurement guidance, and review and approval processes for solicitation and contracting activities and functions for professional and specialized services.