Blog: Federal

For the past six years, Lisa Cooley has built up Gordian’s Federal Solutions team and is dedicated to the success of our clients and her counterparts. In our interview, Lisa shares what it is like to be a woman in the construction industry, how she defines and strives for success and some advice for other industry professionals.

Our Federal Solutions Team convened on the trinity of U.S. Department of Defense facilities events: BUILDER™ SMS Summit, the BOS Roundtable and SAME-IFMA FM Workshop. Read what we learned about how innovation, integration and partnerships fuel Federal facilities management.

Thankfully, the Federal Government shutdown came to at least a temporary end this afternoon after more than 30 days. The longest Federal government shutdown in history left a lot of people in limbo. Some of those affected are Gordian clients, people the Federal Solutions team has worked with for years. Since the shutdown began, Lisa Cooley's Federal Solutions team has been endeavoring to understand the impacts on the agencies we serve. Through all of the numbers and risk quantification, they never lost sight of the human element—our valued clients.

At this year's SAME Small Business Conference, we enjoyed interacting with small businesses that make up the majority of 4Clicks users and the DOD and Federal entities our software was designed to serve. Take a look at why this event was so meaningful to us and read a first-hand account of our experience this year.

The path is paved for a transformation of unit price contracts into broader and more powerful tools. A recent article in The Military Engineer’s (TME) September- October issue takes a closer look at next-gen Job Order Contracting for Federal applications.