Automating Federal Contracting Processes for Acquisitions and Procurements
Led UX and a11y efforts on the acquisitions and procurment application for the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Financial Resources
This project was my main engagement during my time at Appian. The project is under NDA, thus the details and images will not be displayed here. However, the high level decisions, strategy, outcomes, and main take aways will be outlined here.
Client
CDC Office of Financial Resources
Timeline
2 years
Team
6 Appian Developers, 1 UX Lead [me], 2 PM, 1 TPM, 1 PO, 1 Scrum Master
Tags
federal, financial, api, accessibility
CDC OFR was using clunky legacy systems to apply for government procurements and acquisitions. Required understanding of the complex data architecture of the federal procurement data structure (FPDS) in order to manage all the information to pull into government contracts that would be sent through the correct approval workflow, and exported and saved in the database. This system was used to grant government bids for any purchase orders that the CDC maintained.
As a government agency, AAA compliance (in accordance with the WCAG) was required. I spearheaded the accessibility ux initiatives for the platform to ensure that we would be able to “go-live” on time, while passing all federal regulation.