Update: David Yarkin won't head OFPP
Late yesterday, David Yarkin, president of Government Sourcing Solutions, emailed me to say he was "not a candidate for the OFPP Administrator position."
Any other names floating around out there?
The Obama administration might be looking for something more than experience in the federal government and the federal business sphere to find its head of federal procurement policy.
A well-placed source says administration officials have interviewed David Yarkin, who was deputy secretary for procurement of the Pennsylvania Department of General Services from 2003 to 2005. OMB is looking to fill the job of administrator for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
Yarkin is president of Government Sourcing Solutions, a consulting firm for state governments, which has an office in Washington, D.C.
According to the company's Web site, while with Pennsylvania, Yarkin led what has been called “the most sweeping transformation of state procurement in decades.” During his tenure, Pennsylvania saved $140 million annually through strategic sourcing and established a procurement-shared services center, centralizing all state contracting under the state's department of general services, the Web site says.
Government Sourcing Solutions is a “consulting firm helping state and local governments with its implementation. We have worked with states and cities across the country, helping them save tens of millions of dollars and increasing the dollars going to small, minority- and women-owned businesses—all while significantly reducing staff resource time.”
Posted by Matthew Weigelt on Aug 25, 2009 at 9:55 AM