Erica Barbee

Erica Barbee serves as a key procurement professional within the Internal Revenue Service, supporting the agency’s mission to modernize tax administration through secure, technology-driven solutions. She manages complex acquisitions for digital transformation initiatives, including cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity systems, data analytics platforms, and automated compliance workflows. Her work directly enables the IRS to enhance taxpayer services, strengthen fraud detection capabilities, and secure sensitive financial data across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. Barbee handles a broad range of federal contracts under the Department of the Treasury, ensuring alignment with federal acquisition regulations and strategic IT modernization goals. She maintains strong, ongoing relationships with leading federal contractors including Deloitte Consulting LLP, Cherokee Nation Federal Consulting, LLC, Science Applications International Corporation, Maximus Federal Services, Inc., and InsySCO, Inc. These partnerships reflect a preference for established, high-capacity vendors capable of delivering enterprise-scale IT modernization, cybersecurity, and operational support services. Her contracting patterns indicate a focus on performance-based, outcome-driven contracts that emphasize scalability, interoperability, and compliance with NIST and FISMA standards. Barbee’s procurement activity shows no set-aside preferences, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on technical capability and mission readiness over socioeconomic classifications, prioritizing vendor expertise and system integration proficiency. While small business participation is not formally targeted, her portfolio includes firms of varying sizes, suggesting a merit-based evaluation approach grounded in technical merit and past performance. Her industry focus centers on IT services, cybersecurity, data management, and systems integration, with procurement activity aligned to NAICS categories typically associated with enterprise software development, cloud migration, and federal IT modernization. She consistently acquires solutions that support secure, scalable, and automated tax administration systems, demonstrating deep expertise in federal digital transformation and mission-critical technology procurement.