Webinar Recording - Journey from $200K to $5M: Delegation of Procurement Authority to the Chief Procurement Officer

Overview

In 2018, the Sound Transit Board of Directors raised its $200,000 delegation of procurement authority to the Chief Executive Officer all the way up to $5,000,000.  Then the CEO delegated all of it to the Chief Procurement Officer. How did this happen?  Slowly, deliberately, and step by step.  Learn the key ingredients to the five year path of emergence, elevation and strategic empowerment of professional procurement at this transit authority in full execution of its $54 billion dollar system expansion program for the tri-county Seattle region.

What You'll Learn

1.  Build trust and empowerment
2.  Conditions you must create
3.  Obstacles you will need to overcome
4.  Qualities you must have
5.  Process building blocks to follow

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