FY2017 PROPOSED BUDGET

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Proposed FY2017 Budget
Chapter 3
Office of Procurement
Approved Proposed
Actual Actual Budget Budget
(Dollars in Thousands) 2014 2015 2016 2017 Change Variance
PERSONNEL COST $6,519 $6,302 $6,859 $12,091 $5,232 76.3%
NONPERSONNEL COST $1,501 $1,271 $1,530 $1,506 ($24) -1.5%
TOTAL COST $8,020 $7,573 $8,388 $13,597 $5,208 62.1%
BUDGETED POSITIONS - - - 89 89 0.0%
Purpose
To provide expert, professional acquisition services in support of the transportation service needs
of customers across the jurisdictions serviced by WMATA, while maintaining compliance with
federal and local agency procurement laws and regulations.
Responsibilities
The Chief Procurement Officer has taken the necessary steps to begin the shift in changing the
culture regarding acquisition support, and improving the quality of service and responsiveness.
There are 89 budgeted FTE resources in PRMT and all are tasked with being a value added
partner for success in support of the WMATA mission.
FY2017 Business Plan
• Understand and adjust WMATA’s procurement operations to ensure alignment with PRMT
core values.
• Identify and analyze the critical issues that present challenges and opportunities to improve
the Procurement operations.
• Communicate effectively and engage the WMATA community.
• Build effective communication and engage the community through responsive, open, and
honest communications – “tell it like it is”.
• Foster trust relationships with the PRMT team and our stakeholder customers by
delivering timely, accurate information and using mutually beneficial two-way
communication.
• Conduct strategic rebalancing & realignment.
• Realign existing PRMT spaces & faces in a most efficient manner to improve work
quality and responsiveness to the customers’ procurement needs.
• Rebalance the PRMT organization using existing PCN spaces.
FY2016 Highlights & Major Accomplishments
• Total Procurement Activity (i.e. Solicitations, Purchase Orders, and Total Award Value)
• FY2015: 231 Solicitations; 11,324 POs; and $984,494,940 Total Award Value
• FY2014: 149 Solicitations; 10,137 POs; and $894,184,814 Total Award Value
• PRMT spearheaded an effort to reduce spending by purchase card holders by reducing the
number of cardholders from over 315 to 235 in FY2015
• In FY2015 PRMT reduced procurement administrative lead time processing from an
average of 217 days to an average of 93 days
• PRMT to roll out CLM functionality to support contracting discipline in FY2016
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