diff --git a/cmake/CMakeLists.txt b/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
index 9395ed23a5..d285343f52 100644
--- a/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -975,17 +975,25 @@ if(onnxruntime_USE_OPENVINO)
 
   add_definitions(-DUSE_OPENVINO=1)
 
+  if (EXISTS "$ENV{INTEL_OPENVINO_DIR}/inference_engine/version.txt")
+    file(READ $ENV{INTEL_OPENVINO_DIR}/inference_engine/version.txt VER)
+  endif()
+
+  if (NOT DEFINED ENV{INTEL_OPENVINO_DIR})
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "[Couldn't locate OpenVINO] OpenVINO may not have been initialized")
+  endif()
+
   # Check OpenVINO version for support
-  if ($ENV{INTEL_OPENVINO_DIR} MATCHES "2020.2")
+  if (${VER} MATCHES "2020.2" OR $ENV{INTEL_OPENVINO_DIR} MATCHES "2020.2")
     set(OPENVINO_VERSION "2020.2")
     add_definitions(-DOPENVINO_2020_2=1)
-  elseif ($ENV{INTEL_OPENVINO_DIR} MATCHES "2020.3")
+  elseif (${VER} MATCHES "2020.3" OR $ENV{INTEL_OPENVINO_DIR} MATCHES "2020.3")
     set(OPENVINO_VERSION "2020.3")
     add_definitions(-DOPENVINO_2020_3=1)
-  elseif ($ENV{INTEL_OPENVINO_DIR} MATCHES "2020.4")
+  elseif (${VER} MATCHES "2020.4" OR $ENV{INTEL_OPENVINO_DIR} MATCHES "2020.4")
     set(OPENVINO_VERSION "2020.4")
     add_definitions(-DOPENVINO_2020_4=1)
-  elseif ($ENV{INTEL_OPENVINO_DIR} MATCHES "2021.1")
+  elseif (${VER} MATCHES "2021.1" OR $ENV{INTEL_OPENVINO_DIR} MATCHES "2021.1")
     set(OPENVINO_VERSION "2021.1")
     add_definitions(-DOPENVINO_2021_1=1)
   else()
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc
index 71b64c3779..91efdfda12 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ BasicBackend::BasicBackend(const ONNX_NAMESPACE::ModelProto& model_proto,
   //The infer_requests_ pool will be intialized with a default value of 8 infer_request's
   //The nireq value can also be configured to any num_of_threads during runtime
   size_t nireq = global_context_.num_of_threads;
-  LOGS_DEFAULT(INFO) << "The value of nireq being used is: " << nireq;
+  LOGS_DEFAULT(INFO) << log_tag << "The value of nireq being used is: " << nireq;
 #ifndef NDEBUG
   if (openvino_ep::backend_utils::IsDebugEnabled()) {
       std::cout << "The value of nireq being used is: " << nireq << std::endl;