• Identify, evaluate, and select qualified delivery service providers to support last-mile and mid-mile logistics. • Lead the onboarding process, including due diligence, contracts, and system integration. • Negotiate terms, pricing, service level agreements (SLAs), and contractual obligations with DSPs. • Develop and maintain a portfolio of preferred delivery vendors. • Ensure contracts are up to date, compliant, and aligned with company policies and legal requirements. • Monitor vendor KPIs including on-time delivery, cost efficiency, service quality, and compliance. • Collaborate with operations teams to address performance issues and implement corrective actions. • Analyze delivery costs and identify savings opportunities through supplier consolidation, route optimization, or renegotiation. • Support budgeting and forecasting related to transportation and delivery expenses. • Work closely with logistics, legal, finance, and customer service teams to ensure alignment across all DSP-related activities. • Participate in process improvement initiatives related to delivery operations. • Stay current on market trends, new delivery technologies, and regulatory changes. Assess supply risks and develop contingency plans.

• Develop, implement, and lead category plans to drive cost savings and long-term value creation across all relevant networking hardware and telecommunications technology categories. • Partner with IT Architecture teams to understand the long-term networking hardware roadmap, ensuring category plans support future technology needs, innovation, and scalability. • Collaborate with internal stakeholders (IT, Legal, Finance, senior executives) and key technology suppliers to ensure category plans are aligned with business needs. • Cultivate and manage relationships with key vendors and suppliers, leading complex negotiations to secure favorable terms, volume discounts, and long-term contracts. • Identify, assess, and mitigate all technology category risks, including supply chain disruptions, vendor compliance, and adherence to organizational policies and regulations.

• Define and implement global category strategies for electronics (e.g., PCBs, sensors, connectors, embedded systems). • Conduct market analysis and benchmarking to identify trends, risks, and opportunities. • Identify, evaluate, and onboard strategic suppliers. • Lead supplier negotiations, performance reviews, and development programs. • Drive cost reduction initiatives through value engineering, TCO analysis, and strategic sourcing. • Lead contract negotiations and manage supplier agreements.

• Develop and execute procurement workflows, ensuring timely acquisition of software, hardware, and cloud services in alignment with operational needs. • Negotiate vendor agreements, oversee contract execution, and track procurement performance against budgetary constraints. • Submit the Procurement & Acquisition Status Report, detailing purchase orders, vendor performance assessments, and financial allocations. • Coordinate with all active Work Orders to track, validate, and consolidate software and service license requirements across the program; including but not limited to licenses for GIS tools, data catalogs, CI/CD platforms, and dashboard/reporting tools. • Assist the Government in negotiating shared software usage agreements, license pooling, and chargeback structures where one Work Order provisions software for use by others. • Coordinate with all active Work Orders to validate software, data, infrastructure, and service license requirements across the program. • Where shared services or platform components are provisioned under one Work Order for use by others, the contractor shall support the Government in establishing and administering chargeback models to ensure proper cost attribution and avoid duplication of funding. • Assist with negotiating chargeback structures either through this Work Order or through the provisioning Work Order, subject to approval by the Government PM and COR. • Chargebacks may include but are not limited to: Data Lake services (e.g., Databricks, Notebooks, Unity Catalog) ESRI GIS tools and extensions (e.g., ArcGIS Enterprise, GeoAnalytics) Kubernetes-based infrastructure for geospatial workloads Commercial data subscriptions (e.g., Janes, Spire, Vannevar Labs) GitHub/GitLab repositories and CI/CD collaboration tools Research materials and secure access (e.g., academic journals, OSINT platforms) Cloud infrastructure resources (e.g., GovCloud IL4/IL5 compute and storage) Document all chargeback activities in the centralized license and services ledger to support program-wide visibility and audit readiness. • Maintain a centralized license and services ledger, updated in coordination with other Work Orders, and all provisioning Work Orders. This ledger shall be used to support license forecasting, reconciliation, and strategic procurement decisions across the program.