Name: Mark Naggar
Title: IT Vendor Management Specialist and Director of the Buyers Club
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Best Buyer. Through the HHS Buyers Club and similar efforts across agencies, Nagger has replaced weighty proposal documents with simple concept papers and iterative development processes, minimizing the procurement burden on government and industry. His efforts to inject agile buying practices into the federal acquisition process have been so effective that the White House has solicited his advice, and President Barack Obama has said he wants those efforts scaled and institutionalized before the end of his term.
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