The brightest lights of the government contracting world shined Tuesday night at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner during the second most anticipated event of the year: the announcement of the finalists for the 8th Annual Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards (aka the GovCon Awards)! PSC member companies are in the running for six of the seven awards, thanks to some pretty smart contracting. The full list of finalists can be found here. The winners will be announced at the most anticipated event of the year: the Nov. 3 GovCon gala dinner!
While we all await the big event to hear who the industry winners are, we can applaud three honorees already named. They are the two public-sector partners honorees—Charlie Williams, the director of the Defense Contract Management Agency, and Soraya Correa, the director of the Office of Procurement Operations at the Homeland Security Department—and this year’s Greater Washington Government Contractor Hall of Fame inductee—Clifford Kendall, founder of Computer Data Systems, Inc.
Kendall’s induction into the Hall of Fame honors his decades of contributions to the greater D.C. area both professionally, through his work leading a small business providing IT services to the government, and personally, through his extensive community involvement with organizations like the Montgomery County Community Foundation, which he helped to establish.
Public-sector partner honorees Williams and Correa have each dedicated their careers to ensuring smart contracting through proper partnerships with the private sector that are efficient and effective.
As director of DCMA, one of the chief contracting oversight agencies, Williams helps ensure that DoD contracting is done right by assisting DoD agencies in writing solicitations and identifying capable companies to perform the work and by ensuring contractors’ systems are capable of delivering on time and on budget quality goods and services.
Similarly, Correa, as director of procurement operations for DHS, helps deliver smart contracts by ensuring DHS’s procurements are well written and well executed through innovative process improvements and management by a well-trained workforce.
The awards are presented in partnership by the Northern Virginia GovCon Council, an initiative of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, PSC and Washington Technology magazine.
While we all await the big event to hear who the industry winners are, we can applaud three honorees already named. They are the two public-sector partners honorees—Charlie Williams, the director of the Defense Contract Management Agency, and Soraya Correa, the director of the Office of Procurement Operations at the Homeland Security Department—and this year’s Greater Washington Government Contractor Hall of Fame inductee—Clifford Kendall, founder of Computer Data Systems, Inc.
Kendall’s induction into the Hall of Fame honors his decades of contributions to the greater D.C. area both professionally, through his work leading a small business providing IT services to the government, and personally, through his extensive community involvement with organizations like the Montgomery County Community Foundation, which he helped to establish.
Public-sector partner honorees Williams and Correa have each dedicated their careers to ensuring smart contracting through proper partnerships with the private sector that are efficient and effective.
As director of DCMA, one of the chief contracting oversight agencies, Williams helps ensure that DoD contracting is done right by assisting DoD agencies in writing solicitations and identifying capable companies to perform the work and by ensuring contractors’ systems are capable of delivering on time and on budget quality goods and services.
Similarly, Correa, as director of procurement operations for DHS, helps deliver smart contracts by ensuring DHS’s procurements are well written and well executed through innovative process improvements and management by a well-trained workforce.
The awards are presented in partnership by the Northern Virginia GovCon Council, an initiative of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, PSC and Washington Technology magazine.
