Nefertiti D Winters

Nefertiti D. Winters serves as a key procurement professional within the Internal Revenue Service’s Washington, D.C. office, supporting the agency’s mission to modernize tax administration through technology-driven solutions. She manages acquisitions aligned with digital transformation initiatives, focusing on software licensing, cloud-based infrastructure, and integrated tax computation systems. Her work directly enables the IRS’s operational efficiency goals by ensuring timely access to secure, scalable software solutions that enhance taxpayer services and data integrity across federal compliance functions. Winters handles complex, high-priority contracts under full and open competition, with a strict adherence to federal acquisition regulations and mission-critical timelines. Her contractor relationships are exclusively with software publishers and technology vendors specializing in federal tax systems, including firms that develop automated tax processing platforms, data analytics tools, and secure cloud-hosted applications. While no specific vendors are publicly identified, her procurement pattern reflects consistent engagement with vendors possessing deep expertise in IRS-specific compliance environments and certified cybersecurity frameworks. She prioritizes vendors capable of rapid integration, ongoing maintenance, and adherence to NIST and FISMA standards. Winters demonstrates an unwavering commitment to socioeconomic contracting, directing 100% of her acquisitions toward total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to empower small, innovative firms with the technical capability to support federal tax modernization, ensuring broad participation from diverse small business owners across the software development ecosystem. Her primary focus is on NAICS 513210 (Software Publishers), where she procures custom and commercial-off-the-shelf software for tax calculation engines, taxpayer portals, and backend data validation systems. She specializes in acquisitions involving secure software deployment, API integration, and interoperability with existing IRS legacy architectures, demonstrating deep technical fluency in the domain of federal tax technology modernization.