Lisa S.Nelson

Lisa S. Nelson 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 a diverse portfolio of acquisitions focused on digital transformation initiatives, including software development, data analytics platforms, and cybersecurity infrastructure for both cloud and on-premises environments. Her work directly enables the IRS’s strategic priorities in automating compliance workflows, enhancing fraud detection, and improving taxpayer service delivery through scalable, mission-critical systems. She routinely handles complex IT service contracts under full and open competition, ensuring alignment with federal acquisition regulations and agency-wide digital modernization goals. Nelson maintains strong, ongoing relationships with leading federal contractors including Deloitte Consulting LLP, Science Applications International Corporation, Maximus Federal Services, Inc., Cherokee Nation Federal Consulting, L.L.C., and InsySCO, Inc. These partnerships reflect a balanced approach to leveraging large-scale enterprise capabilities alongside specialized small business expertise. Her contracting patterns emphasize performance-based outcomes, with a preference for vendors capable of delivering integrated solutions in software publishing, information services, and custom systems development. She fosters collaborative, long-term vendor relationships grounded in technical rigor and compliance accountability. While the majority of her acquisitions are conducted under no set-aside (80%), she consistently integrates 8(a) competed contracts into her portfolio (20%), demonstrating a deliberate commitment to socioeconomic diversity. Her contracting approach actively supports small business participation through targeted competition pathways, ensuring qualified 8(a)-certified firms have meaningful access to IRS technology modernization opportunities without compromising mission-critical performance standards. Her procurement focus centers on NAICS codes 513210 (Software Publishers), 519210 (Libraries and Archives), 519290 (Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services), and 541519 (Other Computer Related Services), reflecting deep expertise in enterprise software, digital archives, information retrieval systems, and bespoke IT services. She procures mission-enabling technologies such as taxpayer-facing portals, data analytics engines, and secure information management platforms critical to the IRS’s operational resilience and digital service evolution.