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After a career in procurement, she’s selling to the government

Federal News Network

A long-time federal career procurement executive has a new job. Soraya Correa was chief procurement officer at the Homeland Security Department, among other things, and retired as a member of the Senior Executive Service. Tom Temin And when you were procurement executive at DHS, you had certain metrics to meet.

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State Dept. reshaping acquisition organization, processes

Federal News Network

The executive council is led by Alaina Teplitz, State’s assistant secretary of the Bureau of Administration and chief procurement officer, and Douglas Pitkin, State’s director of the Bureau of Budget and Planning and program management improvement officer. This EBRC is in a pilot phase right now.

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Grants procurement pilots demonstrate speed to modernization

Federal News Network

“We worked with them to explore the vendors on our Catalog of Market Research, making sure they were ready to meet their needs and helping to support them through the procurement process,” Sampanis said on Ask the CIO. They are live, on target and on budget, which is not an easy thing to do.

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AI effort to improve contractor performance ratings stalls

Federal News Network

Polly Hall, the DHS senior advisor to the chief procurement officer and former executive director of the Procurement Innovation Lab, which ran the AI CPARs pilot, said the test proved out the capability of using this technology to identify relevant records and information. AI has come a long way in four years.”

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Friday Flash 04/26/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

The unfinished requirements include developing a list of common categories of “critical software” and incorporating cost analysis of the EO’s requirements into the budgeting process.