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Dear GSA Colleagues,
Please help me congratulate our two winners of the prestigious Presidential Rank Award, Jeffrey Koses and Kevin Kampschroer. Yesterday, the White House announced that Jeff has received the Distinguished Executive award and Kevin received the Meritorious Executive award. These two - both from our Office of Government-wide Policy - are part of a select group of 233 employees throughout the federal government to be honored this year.
These awards, launched in 1978, recognize exceptional leadership, accomplishments, and dedication over an extended period of time for civil servants in the Senior Executive Service or who are Senior Career Employees. The Office of Personnel Management convened about 100 panelists to evaluate nominees and then recommended finalists to President Biden.
Jeff has provided decades of leadership in acquisition at GSA and serves now as our Senior Procurement Executive. As a voting member of the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council, he has advanced policies that reduce burdens, promote innovation, and improve outcomes overall. He has also helped equip the roughly 200,000 people in the acquisition workforce with the skills and knowledge they need. He has a track record of putting ourselves in our industry customers’ shoes, establishing our first procurement ombudsman position, and driving deep engagement through public meetings, reverse industry days, and more to foster fruitful relationships between contracting officers and the private sector on a national scale. Through it all, he has championed GSA Acquisition and its workforce.
Kevin has also served for decades at GSA, currently as our Chief Sustainability Officer. He has implemented crucial efforts such as deep energy retrofits in order to incentivize companies to help us reduce energy consumption in our buildings, saving millions each year in taxpayer dollars. He is a widely-respected leader in building sustainability, and has written dozens of peer-reviewed papers focused on the effects of buildings on human health. Criteria he has developed in recent decades has helped transform much of our portfolio into high-performance green buildings.
You can check out the complete list of winners here.
Please help me congratulate Kevin and Jeff for this wonderful and deserved honor. They are both an inspiration to all of us.
Best,
Robin
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