Elyse Schnorr

Elyse Schnorr serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, overseeing acquisitions critical to advancing food safety, agricultural data integrity, and rural economic analysis. She manages a portfolio of technical and analytical contracts focused on laboratory-grade instrumentation for soil, crop, and livestock diagnostics, as well as credit reporting and financial analytics systems used to evaluate farm viability and lending patterns. Her work directly supports the agency’s mission by ensuring the procurement of high-precision measurement systems and scalable data infrastructure that enable evidence-based policy and program delivery. Schnorr specializes in complex service-based acquisitions requiring rigorous technical evaluation and compliance with federal testing and validation standards. She maintains consistent partnerships with leading federal contractors including Accenture Federal Services, Carahsoft Technology Corp, Lumen Technologies Government Solutions, Dynamo Technologies, and Lakeside Foods Inc. These relationships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in enterprise data integration, custom software development for agricultural analytics, and specialized food supply chain services. Schnorr’s contracting approach emphasizes vendor performance history, system interoperability, and adherence to USDA data governance protocols, fostering long-term, mission-aligned collaborations rather than transactional engagements. Schnorr’s procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on accessing the broadest possible talent pool to meet the technical complexity and scale of USDA’s analytical requirements, rather than socioeconomic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her award patterns, she ensures all solicitations are structured to allow equitable access and transparent evaluation. Her primary focus lies in NAICS 561450 (Credit Bureaus), where she procures advanced financial data aggregation and risk modeling services for rural lending programs, and NAICS 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services), where she oversees the development of tailored data analytics platforms for agricultural research and compliance reporting. Her domain expertise centers on integrating financial, environmental, and operational datasets to support USDA’s decision-making infrastructure.