Elizabeth Johnson

Elizabeth Johnson serves as a key procurement lead within the Contracts and Acquisitions Management unit of the U.S. Department of Education, overseeing the strategic acquisition of professional services critical to advancing federal education policy and institutional capacity. She manages a portfolio centered on the administration of education programs, ensuring that contracts support evidence-based research, regulatory compliance, and the modernization of federal student aid and data infrastructure. Her acquisitions primarily involve consulting services, systems integration, data analytics, and technical assistance to enhance the efficiency and integrity of national education systems. She operates within a framework aligned with federal acquisition regulations and prioritizes outcomes that strengthen educational equity and institutional accountability. Her primary contractor relationship is with LPE-STRATEGIES LLC, a firm consistently engaged to deliver expert advisory services in education program design, policy implementation, and compliance monitoring. Johnson fosters long-term, performance-based partnerships with this vendor, leveraging their specialized knowledge in federal education systems to deliver high-impact, mission-critical support. While her contracting activity is concentrated with this single entity, the nature of the engagements reflects a preference for deep domain expertise over broad competition, indicating a focus on sustained, high-quality service delivery rather than transactional procurement. Johnson’s procurement activity shows no use of socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on selecting the most qualified provider based on technical merit and proven capability, rather than socioeconomic criteria. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her portfolio, her approach remains compliant with all federal contracting requirements and emphasizes value-driven outcomes. Her work is exclusively focused on NAICS 923110—Administration of Education Programs—encompassing contract types such as professional services, performance-based task orders, and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) agreements. She specializes in procuring policy analysis, data governance, compliance auditing, and system modernization services essential to the operational integrity of federal education programs.