10 The Hampton Roads Messenger


Volume 10 Number 4 Career & Business Opportunities


December 2015


NSU Procurement Services Wins Xcelerator Awards


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Norfolk State University’s Office of Procurement


NSU NEWSROOM— Services recently


won two Xcelerator Awards from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of General Services at the agency’s annual procurement forum in Richmond.


The department received


group awards for collaboration and Eugene Anderson, NSU’s Director of Procurement


The collaboration


recipient of the Career Achievement Award.


Services, was the award


was a result of a project between Procurement Services and 13 graphic design students who helped create original artwork in a renovated office space.


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Collaboration Xcelerator worked


According to the Department Services website, the Award


recognized a procurement team that successfully


with another


function from the same organization or with an external agency or supplier to deliver a successful project or initiative.


The students, from Division of Fine Arts, created


NSU’s an


original mural in the Procurement Services office, located inside Harrison B. Wilson Hall. The design features silhouettes of two heads facing each other with gears that appear to come out of both heads. On an adjacent wall, the word “PROCUREMENT” appears above and features several detailed gears and another silhouette along the wall.


Anderson said the idea for the


project came from Cynthia Colvin, an office manager in procurement services


at NSU. He said Colvin in


worked with faculty from the Division of Fine Arts and helped organize the project with students. Anderson said he and the procurement services staff are pleased with the design and they’ve had plenty of visitors from across campus who have come in to look at the display.


“This project reality,” allowed students


and faculty an opportunity to create a concept, then convert the concept into


Anderson said. “This


gave our students on the job type training that will help better prepare them for corporate and governmental opportunities in the art field.”


in


The students who participated the


project included: Delonte


Allen, Keon Baker, Fianna Bell, Kichara Davis, Floyd Garner, Quiana Hairston, Rebekah


Lewis, Isaiah


Lundy, Kenyonna McDaniel, Kemonte Shelton, Andrea Wilson, Johnell Green and Demetre Ferrell.


The students who participated the


project included: Delonte


Allen, Keon Baker, Fianna Bell, Kichara Davis, Floyd Garner, Quiana Hairston, Rebekah


Lewis, Isaiah


Lundy, Kenyonna McDaniel, Kemonte Shelton, Andrea Wilson, Johnell Green and Demetre Ferrell.


humbled


While Anderson said he was to receive


the Career


Achievement Award at the event, he said the true pleasure was working with Norfolk State students and helping to educate them about procurement.


“Our staff enjoyed meeting with the students and describing what we do,” Anderson said. “After all, procurement is not a subject that people talk about around the dinner table. But it is an area that supports all departments on campus.”


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