Waldron joins D.C. group

    Mayer, Brown, Rowe, and Maw LLP is pleased to announce that Roger D. Waldron, 47, has joined its Government Contracts Practice Group based in the firm’s Washington Office. Waldron served as the acting senior procurement executive at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). In that capacity, he has led the development, issuance and oversight of acquisition policies and procedures governing GSA’s $60 billion dollar procurement operations. In this role, he also has managed the civilian development of government wide acquisition policy for all federal agencies through the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Waldron joins the firm as counsel.     Previously, Waldron played a leading role in the management of GSA’s government wide contracting programs. He has been a senior manager for the Federal Supply Service (FSS) where he was responsible for the acquisition management and oversight of FSS’s $37 billion contracting programs, including the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program. Waldron has been responsible for the policies and procedures governing FSS’s interagency contract vehicles, including the MAS program and the Information Technology Government wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs). These programs have been the core of GAS’s acquisition program and they are used across the government to acquire commercial items and services.
    Waldron was a member of Acquisition Advisory Panel, appointed by the Executive Office of the President.    
    Peter Scher, partner in charge of Mayer, Brown, Rowe, and maw’s Washington, DC office, commented, “We are excited that Roger has agreed to join our government contracts practice. His presence will support our existing practice and help expand the firm’s ongoing work in the IT area and for commercial entities entering the government market.”
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    Waldron is a 1978 graduate of Presque Isle High School, he resides in Vienna, Va.