The National Procurement Awards 2026 is pleased to welcome Keelvar as a Gold Sponsor for the gala taking place on 22nd October at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry, bringing one of the most advanced AI-powered sourcing platforms in the global procurement market to an event dedicated to celebrating excellence across Ireland's procurement community.

Founded in Cork, Keelvar has grown into a recognised leader in sourcing optimisation and automation, trusted by global enterprises to run faster, smarter sourcing events across a wide range of spend categories. Its intelligent platform combines advanced optimisation with autonomous sourcing bots, giving procurement teams the capability to reduce cycle times, uncover savings that traditional approaches can miss, and make confident, data-driven award decisions across everything from complex logistics tenders to direct and indirect spend categories. The result is a procurement function that is not only more efficient but more strategically capable, able to direct human expertise toward the decisions that require it while automating the processes that do not.

What distinguishes Keelvar within the increasingly crowded landscape of procurement technology is the maturity and sophistication of its optimisation engine. Where many platforms offer automation as a feature, Keelvar has built it as a core capability, enabling organisations to handle sourcing events of a complexity and scale that would otherwise demand significant time and resources from procurement teams. The autonomous sourcing bots in particular represent a meaningful advance in how procurement can be managed at speed without sacrificing the analytical rigour that high-value award decisions demand.

As the National Procurement Awards 2026 celebrates the procurement organisations and professionals driving supply chain excellence, strategic sourcing innovation, and procurement transformation across Ireland, Keelvar's partnership with the programme reflects both its commitment to the sector and its relevance to the conversations at the heart of modern procurement practice.

As Gold Sponsor of the National Procurement Awards 2026, Keelvar brings its expertise in AI-driven sourcing, procurement transformation, and intelligent automation to a programme celebrating innovation and excellence across Ireland's procurement community.

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