John Ely

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  John Ely, Chief Procurement Officer, Customs and Border Protection and

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  John Ely Executive Director for Procurement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

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  Customs hopes for better buying - [Cached Version]
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  "When CBP was created as the unified border agency, we had to merge four organizations with different acquisition systems and different buying habits," John Ely, executive director of CBP's procurement office, said in a press release.

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  Customs works on buying - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/1/2005    Last Visited: 4/1/2005  

  "It's the basic concept of knowing where you're money is going and then finding a mature way to always spend it better, enhance industry relationships and customer service," said John Ely, executive director of CBP's procurement office.
  
  Ely, who spoke with reporters after he briefed industry officials today at an event sponsored by Eagle Eye Publishing, said he considred it similar to a Capability Maturity Model, which is a framework software organizations use to improve themselves.Procurement personnel need to take a strategic view these days, as technology has enabled the process to become more automated, he added.
  
  He said officials are drilling down into their processes and looking at the gaps, shortfalls and best practices.The goal is severalfold, including linking to a strategic plan, reducing the costs of goods and services procured and improving their quality, reducing internal costs and procurement cycles, improving accountability, and improving supplier relationships and customer satisfaction.
  
  Right now, he said officials are only beginning to understand what the agency's money is spent on.The agency spent $2 billion on procurement in fiscal 2004 and knows where most of the money went, such as $409 million to information technology and telecommunications.But they are still trying to find out what $700 million was spent on.Ely said they will get that data in the next two months or so.
  
  "This will take time," he said, adding he has support of the agency's chief financial officer for AI2.

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  · John Ely, Executive Director for the CBP Office of Procurement (invited)

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  The Homeland Security Department, created in 2003, will solicit bids as early as next month for its Secure Border Initiative Net, a system of sensors and radar designed to catch illegal aliens, drug smugglers or terrorists who slip across the border, said John Ely, chief procurement officer for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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  The contract could be awarded in September, Ely told 400 industry representatives attending last month's Homeland Security conference in Washington.

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  "It will be a single award to a prime integrator," said John Ely, executive director of CBP's procurement office."But we know there isn't one single integrator out there with the capability to deliver the results that we need, so we expect significant teaming."
  
  Ely said submissions would be evaluated, in part, by bidder's proposed use of small business subcontractors.
  
  CBP was to unveil a new Web site to provide general information about the procurement, permit vendors to submit questions and to profile large and small businesses interested in the acquisition to help them find teaming partners, Ely said.

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  Journal Gazette | 05/23/2005 | Audits blast waste in... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/23/2005    Last Visited: 5/23/2005  

  John Ely, executive director for procurement at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said he is confident the money could be tracked.
  
  "Don't think because we don't know what that is, we couldn't find out," Ely said March 31.But first, he said, he'd need to triple his contracting staff.
  
  "There's not enough of us," he said.
  
  Agency officials have blamed the confusion about spending on the integration of a new computer system and chronic data-entry mistakes.

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  MOC 2005 Conference Newsletter - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/1/2005    Last Visited: 12/14/2006  

  with moderator Nancy Peters, Vice President for Business Development, Civilian Agency Group, CACI and panelists: Kevin Carroll, Program Executive Officer, Enterprise Information Systems, Department of the Army; John Johnson, Assistant Commissioner, Federal Technology Service, General Services Administration; Dominic Cerrichio; and John Ely, Executive Director of Procurement, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security

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  John Ely, executive director for procurement at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said he was confident that the money could be tracked.
  
  "Don't think because we don't know what that is, we couldn't find out," Ely said on March 31.
  
  Ely said he needed to triple his contracting staff."There's not enough of us," he said.

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