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NASPO is the nation’s leader in public procurement, driving excellence for its members through various sources.

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NASPO Awards

The NASPO Awards celebrate the outstanding contributions of individuals to the field of public procurement. These awards recognize excellence in various aspects of procurement, including innovation, leadership, and service to the profession.

Giulio Mazzone Distinguished Service Award

George Cronin Awards For Procurement Excellence Giulio Mazzone Distinguished Service Award Emerging Leaders

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About Winners How to Nominate

NASPO’s Giulio Mazzone Distinguished Service Award Program recognizes service, on a continuing exemplary basis, to the public purchasing profession. The program was created in 1982 as the NASPO Distinguished Service Award, and in 1994 was renamed for Giulio Mazzone.

Award Criteria:

Recipients of the award shall be individuals who embody the following characteristics and reflect NASPO’s vision of exemplary contributions to public procurement:

Personal and professional dedication to effective, lawful, and sound procurement principles
Significant contributions to the mission and activities of NASPO or more broadly to the profession of public procurement
Career-long, sustained advancement of professionalism in procurement activities
Personal and professional integrity in execution of all procurement practices
Active participation in mentoring or support of peers in the procurement profession
Commitment to continual improvement, both in developing new skills and seeking opportunities to improve procurement practices more broadly

About Giulio Mazzone

Giulio Mazzone was a NASPO member, former NASPO President and the seventh recipient of the Distinguished Service Award. As the lightning rod behind NASPO’s recycling involvement, especially with paper and the ASTM, he cultivated a very good relationship between NASPO and the federal government.

As important, if not more important, he was a good friend, quick to make new members feel welcome and part of the organization, urging them to get involved. He was responsible for many members’ decisions to jump into the thick of things. Renaming the award after Guilio lost his fight to cancer represented both NASPO’s attempt to hold on to a little piece of the “Giulio magic,” and a restatement of the high bar this award represents to NASPO members.