More Than Just Contracts Support.

Our experienced acquisition professionals offer advisory and management support for acquisition planning, procurement operations, contract management, and procurement policy and compliance.

Acquisition and procurement personnel in all organizations are being asked to perform as efficiently as possible. This requires heightened strategic acquisition planning, innovative procurement strategies, and professional contract administration.

Our acquisition professionals offer advisory and decision support to procurement and logistics personnel. Markon provides effective, best practice solutions for every phase of the acquisition life cycle including market research, requirements development, cost estimating, and contract administration.

“The Markon team has been a tremendous help in resolving some of our problem areas and helped research and develop a sound solution.”

- Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Acquisition and Logistics

 

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Leigh Valudes
Acquisition Solution Lead

Leigh Valudes leads the Acquisition Solution. During his 19-year consulting experience, Leigh developed expertise in strategic planning, mission analysis, requirements programming, facilities project management, design and construction management, business operations, and strategic marketing.

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Our Capabilities

Acquisition Planning Acquisition Planning Our group of acquisition professionals understand the upfront planning required to create a formal acquisition strategy and plan. Learn More
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Acquisition Planning

Acquisition Planning

Planning a contract or program often begins months and years before contract award. Our group of acquisition professionals understand the upfront planning required to create a formal acquisition strategy and plan. Acquisition plans should be created by benchmarking industry and other metrics already present in the department. Our experts pride themselves in innovative solutions backed by technical cost and schedule professionals to keep the strategy honest.

Procurement Operations Procurement Operations Markon technical procurement experts have extensive experience preparing the full gamut of procurement actions. Learn More
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Procurement Operations

Procurement Operations

Markon technical procurement experts have extensive experience preparing the full gamut of procurement actions from RFIs and source selections, to RFPs and SOWs, to pure contract specialist duties needed to administer the contract through award. Many of our experts additionally have experience on the program side of contracts to help decipher acquisition strategy and either performance or prescriptive scope writing. Our professional staff understand the best way to positively impact contract performance is both the proper contract/scope and resultant vendor selection.

Contract Management Contract Management Our contract management professionals are expertly trained in contract compliance, contract communications, vendor audits and evaluations, and contract specialist administration. Learn More
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Contract Management

Contract Management

Once a contract is awarded, our contract management professionals are expertly trained in contract compliance, contract communications, vendor audits and evaluations, and contract specialist administration. Many of our experts have been government contracting officers (COs) or trained as contracting officer technical representatives (COTRs). This provides special advantages to our clients as we have been in their seat at one time or another. The administration of an active contract requires a heads up mentality that sets a path for success to all contract participants. This includes a detailed contract kick off meeting to lay out requirements and common pitfalls, but also to show a partnering spirit with vendors and project staff alike. Diligent record keeping is an absolute as is formal milestone notifications along the way.

Policy and Compliance Policy & Compliance Our experts work with clients to map and execute extremely complex policy and compliance work. Learn More
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Policy and Compliance

Policy & Compliance

Markon senior policy staff has unparalleled expertise in FAR and Supplemental FAR Updates, OFPP, GAO, OIG and Congressional Response, Freedom of Information Requests (FOIA), Warrant Management Policy, and A-123 Acquisition Reviews. Our experts work hand-and-hand with clients to map and execute extremely complex policy and compliance work that requires adherence to new legislation, partnership with the Executive, and support through public communications and comment periods.

Talent Spotlight

Joey Harrington
Deputy Project Manager/ Sustainment Lead

Joey provides project management support at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), supporting the Office of Procurement Policy and Warrant Management Services. This effort includes a re-write of the VA Acquisition Regulation (VAAR), the Department’s supplement to the FAR. Additionally, his team developed a VA Acquisition Manual (VAAM) to provide internal guidance to the acquisition workforce and sustainment support of current policy.

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Edward Chambers
Senior Procurement Analyst

Ed brings more than 30 years of experience in federal acquisition policy development. Currently, he is involved in the rewrite of the Veterans Affairs supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).

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