GSA's Waldron joins private law firm

Roger Waldron will join Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw's Government Contracts Practice Group as counsel in the firm's Washington, D.C., office.

Waldron is acting senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration. In that capacity, he has led the development, issuance and oversight of acquisition policies and procedures governing GSA's $60 billion dollar procurement operations. He also has managed the civilian development of governmentwide acquisition policy for all federal agencies through the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

Waldron has played a leading role in the management of GSA's governmentwide contracting programs. He has been a senior manager for the Federal Supply Service, where he was responsible for the acquisition management and oversight of FSS' $37 billion contracting programs, including the multiple-award schedule program. Waldron has been responsible for the policies and procedures governing FSS' interagency contract vehicles, including the multiple-award schedule program and the information technology governmentwide acquisition contracts.

Waldron was a member of Acquisition Advisory Panel, appointed by the Executive Office of the President.

Read the article by Matthew Weigelt.