U.S. General Services Administration
OMB salutes Benoit for category leadership
The head of Office of Management and Budget's Office of Federal Procurement Policy penned a congratulatory letter [PDF - 199 KB] Dec. 2 to FAS's Tim Benoit to wish him well in retirement and thank him for his substantial contributions to the federal government's Facilities and Construction category management.
Administrator Michael E. Wooten wrote that Benoit's service to the F&C category had been "invaluable" and "much appreciated." Wooten noted Benoit's particular contributions including:
- Leading the overall development and implementation of the Category Management Strategic Plan for Facilities and Construction.
- Establishing the first ever Best-in-Class solution.
- Increasing spend under management by over 10% in just one year.
- Working successfully with many agencies to sell the value proposition of leveraging existing solutions, instead of standing up duplicative contracts.
- Successfully on-ramping small business to category management solutions.
- Providing valuable tools and content on the Acquisition Gateway to help agencies buy smarter.
Benoit's leadership in the F&C category resulted in over $52 billion in spend under management, nearly $130 million in cost avoidance, and reducing unaligned contracts by 24%.
Benoit retires this month with 34 years of federal service and 18 years with GSA.
"It has been a wonderful and rewarding opportunity to have been able to participate in the governmentwide category management process," Benoit said. "This is the first time in my 34 years of federal public service that I have seen federal agencies break the stovepipe mentality and work together as a homogeneous team."