“When interviewing non-traditional IT vendors in the federal marketplace for a series of blogs, I asked how they decided what agencies to target… I decided to talk to two of the contracting officials the new vendors mentioned to me: Mark Junda of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Dan Levenson of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to find out what they did to encourage new vendors.”
“Junda’s LinkedIn profile identifies him as an “acquisition innovation advocate.” He got a job in contracting straight out of college, where he was a business major, with the Army Communications-Electronics Command in New Jersey. When the command was moved to the Washington area and VA opened up an IT office in New Jersey to hire people who didn’t want to move, Junda switched over to the VA…” Read the full article here.
Source: Meet the contracting folks who are encouraging new IT vendors – By Steve Kelman, March 15, 2018. FCW.
