CITY PROCUREMENT STAFF NAMED BUYER AND MANAGER OF THE YEAR
The City of Tucson's Business Services Department is proud to announce that Norma Camacho, CPPB, Senior Contract Officer, has been named the Buyer of the Year by the Copper Chapter of NIGP (The Institute for Public Procurement). We are further pleased to announce that Jenn Myers, NIGP-CPP, CPPB, Procurement Manager, has been named the Manager of the Year.
Each March, the Copper Chapter of NIGP, accepts nominations for the Buyer and Manager of the Year Awards. These awards recognize individuals who actively support and promote the public procurement profession, demonstrate their passion for the profession, and maintain high professional standards.
Camacho has played a critical role in helping the City respond to the pandemic. When shelter-in-place efforts were underway, she worked quickly and tirelessly to create the contracts that were necessary to take Tucson’s homeless population off the street and house them in hotels. Through her role as a Senior Contract Officer for the City’s Procurement Team, she aided the City’s efforts to slow the spread of the Coronavirus.
On the local level, Myers currently serves as the President of the Copper Chapter of NIGP, while on the international level, she was recently appointed to NIGP’s Talent Council. In 2020, Myers was also named by NIGP as their Young Professional of the Year, an apt recognition for this rising procurement star. In her role as a Procurement Manager for the City’s Procurement Team, she is instrumental in training new team members and takes great pride in helping to mold the procurement professionals of tomorrow.
“Norma and Jenn are highly valued members of the City’s Procurement Team. Their dedication to their customers and to the citizens of Tucson is to be commended. They both strive for a high degree of professionalism and are high contributors to our agency and our professional at large. I am incredibly proud of all they have accomplished and am so pleased to see them recognized by our professional association as the Buyer and Manager of the Year,” says Nathan Daou, Procurement Administrator for the City’s Business Services Department.
NIGP, The Institute for Public Procurement, is an international, membership-based nonprofit organization providing support to the public procurement profession. It has over 3,000 member agencies, representing over 16,200 professionals internationally. The Copper Chapter of NIGP Copper Chapter of Southern Arizona is a nonprofit chapter of approximately 100 government procurement professionals in the region.
For more information on the City's Business Services Department and the procurement function, please visit tucsonprocurement.com.
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