"For the entire team, winning the Facility of the Year Award is confirmation of the fact that we have genuinely made a great achievement over the last two years."
-- FOYA Category Winner in Operational Excellence

Facility of the Year Judging Process

Once submissions for the Facility of the Year Awards are received by the entry deadline, they are reviewed by a volunteer panel of prominent industry experts with significant experience in various disciplines including pharmaceutical engineering, construction management, and manufacturing. Submissions are reviewed individually by each judge prior to group discussion during a meeting of the entire judging panel. During the meeting, judges discuss the technical merits of each submission and are tasked with selecting the category winners, including the overall winner of the award.

Although past judges agree that the biggest challenge is to choose from such a diverse field of uniformly great facilities, judges adhere to the detailed submission criteria in order to distinguish those facilities that are truly outstanding and worthy of being selected as a category winner or overall Facility of the Year Award winner.

The Facility of the Year Awards competition has quickly been established as the premier global award focused on recognizing the innovation and creativity utilized by manufacturing facilities serving the regulated health care industry due to the following attributes of the judging process:

• Selection of judges with extensive global industry experience.
• The high level of integrity characterizing the entire judging process.
• The commitment of the judges to review each submission consistently by focusing on the functionality of the overall project.
• The high level of integrity maintained by each judge in agreeing to voluntarily remove himself from any discussions involving a potential conflict of interest.