GCN 2012 Awards

PLEASE USE THE FORM BELOW TO SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION.

1105 Government Information Group, publisher of GCN, is now accepting nominations for the 26th annual GCN Awards.

The GCN Awards recognize the contribution and commitment of agency IT teams to excellence in government systems. We are looking for nominations of outstanding federal, state and local government IT projects and their management teams to be honored for their impact on the performance of government systems and the value of agency services to the public.

The annual GCN Awards do not recognize individual accomplishment. Instead we honor public sector IT teams whose technical ingenuity, resourcefulness in the use of IT and tactics in managing projects have had an extraordinary effect on the ability of agencies to carry out their missions.

The GCN Awards represent an opportunity for agencies and the IT industry to recognize the work and commitment of these teams, including the contribution of specialists and staffers who often make the difference between a project that meets just most of its marks and those with outstanding originality, value and productivity.

THE DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS IS MAY 31, 2013. PLEASE USE THE FORM BELOW TO SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION TODAY.

In submitting your nomination, please follow these basic guidelines:

Please be as specific as possible in naming or identifying the project nominated as well as the core team members responsible for its success. Please limit the number of individuals to 10.

The judges will be looking for projects that rose above the norm in several areas, including:

-- The scale of the challenge taken on by the team;

-- The originality of the technology solution; whether it breaks new ground in the use of tools or approach to problem solving;

-- The tactical skills the team has shown in efficiently developing a solution or building a system;

-- The impact of the project or solution on the public purse and the public’s experience of government services;

-- The impact of the project on the speed at which services are delivered to the public, end users or agency customers;

-- The extent to which the project is replicable or could serve as a model for other offices, agencies or departments;

-- The productivity of the team given its size and how long it took to provide deliverables.

Please submit the name of the project as well as core team members responsible for its success.

If you have a question, please contact Dana FitzGerald, dfitzgerald@1105govinfo.com or 703-876-5141.

The winners will be featured in the October issue of GCN and at a Gala celebration in the fall.

GCN Awards
Nomination Form

Nominee:

Government Agency/Bureau:
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Project Name (or descriptive title):
Name of manager or contact person at agency/bureau:
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Email:
Website:

Nominator (may be same as nominee):

Agency/Company:
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Nominator's Email Address:
State/City:
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Relationship to Nominee:

Please answer the following three questions--limit your responses to no more than 500 - 750 words per question.

A. DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Briefly describe:

  • The nature of the challenge the agency needed to address.
  • The IT solution and key steps the agency IT team (and key stakeholders) took to address the challenge.
 

B. TECHNOLOGY USED

  • Briefly detail the technologies (hardware, software and services) used to address the challenge and the rationale for selecting them.
 

C. IMPACT

  • Briefly describe the significance of the accomplishment to the agency, its employees, its constituents or the public. What specific benefits, cost-savings, improvements in service resulted from the project? How does it position the agency to be more agile, more cost effective in the future?
 

D. REFERENCES

  • Include name, title, address, telephone number and e-mail address of one or more people, other than the nominator and nominee, having direct knowledge of the agency accomplishment for GCN to contact for verification.
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