SPRING BRANCH ISD
Unlike the private sector , in public procurement , relationships are created through the bid and contract process . It ’ s within this process that Gay needs to ensure fair access to all vendors . “ If I need to buy textbooks , I have to issue a public bid . I have to advertise , and I have to take all commerce . I have to make sure that what I consider with the procurement environment is Fair , Inclusive , and Transparent ( FIT ).
“ I still think there ' s a lot of room to be innovative in areas like e-procurement and digitisation of the procurement process . I have been a leader and an innovator in bringing e-procurement platforms to the K-12 environments that I work in . And that has created huge efficiencies and the ability to save large amounts of resources . We are able then to redistribute and reuse those resources throughout the organisation .
“ We took an organisation that was mostly paper-driven and turned it into a digitalfirst organisation , which has in the last three years created a savings of about $ 4 million . So that ’ s really brought a whole new way of thinking to the district . Measuring things
“ I have been a leader and an innovator in bringing e-procurement platforms to the K-12 environments that I work in . And that has created huge efficiencies and the ability to save large amounts of resources ”
RICHARD GAY DIRECTOR OF PROCUREMENT SERVICES , SPRING BRANCH ISD
164 November 2021