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GSA's Sorrenti Wins GCN Information Technology AwardAccomplishes ‘Formidable’ Federal Acquisition Mission GSA #10237 May 3, 2006 WASHINGTON -- The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced that Teresa Sorrenti, Director of GSA’s Office of Acquisition Systems, is one of 12 recipients of the 2006 Government Computer News (GCN) IT Leadership Awards for outstanding work in government information technology (IT). Sorrenti was a leader in the government effort to simplify, unify and streamline the federal acquisition process. Her effort culminated in the 2002 launch of the Integrated Acquisition Environment, one of the 24 e-government initiatives in President Bush’s Management Agenda. The IAE initiative involved more than 300 officials from 65 agencies. “Her mission was formidable: to simplify, unify and streamline the federal acquisition process,” GCN said. “For many in government, the idea of integrating a morass of disparate procurement processes and systems seemed, on the face of it, absurd.” By 2004, IAE had met three of its five original objectives, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) status report on e-government initiatives. IAE leveraged existing systems, eliminated redundancy and built systems to match federal business needs. The result is improved effectiveness and efficiency in federal acquisitions. “GAO pointed to IAE as ‘an example of effective collaboration,’” GCN said. Specifically, the GCN IT award honors:
The 12 winning 2006 candidates were chosen by a panel of current and former federal IT leaders and industry executives together with senior editors of PostNewsweek Tech Media, publisher of GCN News. ### GSA is a centralized, federal procurement, property management, policy development and information provision agency, created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. In this role, GSA acquires products and services on behalf of federal agencies; plays a key role in developing and implementing government-wide policies; provides services and solutions for the office operations of more than one million federal workers; and encourages a citizen-centric relationship with government by providing a single "point of entry" to the information and services citizens need in a timeframe they can appreciate. This allows citizens to receive accurate, timely and consistent answers and information, and helps federal agencies better respond to citizen inquiries.
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