By leveraging technology , Spring Branch ISD is making their way to innovative and diverse strategic procurement and picking up the cost savings
SPRING BRANCH ISD
By leveraging technology , Spring Branch ISD is making their way to innovative and diverse strategic procurement and picking up the cost savings
Richard Gay , Director of Procurement Services at Spring Branch ISD , is a passionate leader who derives great pride in doing good through good procurement . Whether it ’ s capturing cost savings that make their way back into the schools to further support learning , inclusive procurement practices that ensure fair and equitable access to opportunity or leveraging digitisation to lighten the work of school officials so they can spend more of their time focused on their students , Gay leaves no stone unturned . His quest is to ensure his department and his team is , as his father urged , the best that it can be .
“ I grew up in the space program . My dad worked in the Mercury , Gemini , Apollo and space shuttle projects . Those were very challenging times . We were doing things as a country and as a citizenry that had never , ever been done before . My dad left all of his children with the legacy of not being afraid to try something new . Get out there and take risks when you need to be a leader and an innovator . “
Mission : Be the Best Procurement Team We Can Be “ The charge that I give to my staff is that we are going to be the best procurement platform in the K-12 world . Whatever it takes to do that , we need to make sure that we ' re doing that every day when we come
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