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Joanne Woytek, the program director of the NASA SEWP program, which reached $12 billion in sales last year, has led the contracting effort since 1999.<\/p>\n

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Jason Miller<\/a>@jmillerWFED<\/a><\/p>\n

\n March 9, 2026 4:45 pm <\/p>\n

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Joanne Woytek, the program director of the NASA SEWP program, is leaving after more than 48 years of federal service.<\/p>\n

Federal News Network has learned that Woytek will step down on Oct. 17.<\/p>\n

\"HeadJoanne Woytek is the program director of NASA SEWP.<\/p>\n

Woytek, who joined NASA in 1977 as a software developer and technical lead, said she is not formally retiring, but looking for some non-NASA opportunities that she would find interesting and be useful in.<\/p>\n

As for why now, Woytek said in a draft blog post which Federal News Network obtained, \u201cThe NASA SEWP program is entering a major transition with the sixth iteration to start, hopefully, prior to October. I am proud with the work done by myself, the SEWP staff and our NASA team. This is a perfect time to hand the reins over to carry-on that transition and tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) is reviewing bids for the sixth iteration of the governmentwide acquisition vehicle. Some experts estimate that NASA may have received over 1,000 bids on the solicitation, which closed February 2025.<\/p>\n

The SEWP program office is asking its vendors to extend the SEWP V ordering period for another seven months through April 30, 2027. The current ordering period is scheduled to expire on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n

\u201cSEWP VI source selection activities are nearing completion as planned; however, due to the significant volume of proposals received, additional time is needed to make selection and award. NASA intends to seek this extension of the SEWP V contracts to support an orderly transition between SEWP V and SEWP VI,\u201d the program office posted on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NASA also is facing several protests of SEWP VI, which could delay initial awards and require SEWP V to remain viable for a bit longer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NASA SEWP staff is an unbelievably dedicated, hard-working, customer-focused group of people of whom I have full faith can continue the success of the SEWP program,\u201d Woytek said.<\/p>\n

Woytek has been part of the NASA SEWP program since 1992 and the program manager since 1999. She led the program\u2019s growth from an initial GWAC for specific agency needs to one that is among the most popular and successful contracts over the last 25-plus years. The program initially was a single award. Now 30 years later, the fifth version of SEWP has 147 contract holders, more than 11,000 products and services and awards more than $12 billion a year in total contracts.<\/p>\n

In December, Woytek told Off the Shelf with Roger Waldron<\/a> that in the last two years, SEWP V has done $12 billion in sales through more than 40,000 orders and modifications with about 80% of all dollars going to small firms. Since NASA awarded SEWP V in 2015, Woytek said more than $86 billion has gone through SEWP.<\/p>\n

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SEWP VI is expected to be bigger and broader than previous versions, with an increased scope and bigger entry into services for cloud and cybersecurity.<\/p>\n

There are ongoing discussions<\/a> between the General Services Administration and NASA about moving SEWP VI to GSA.<\/p>\n

During her career leading SEWP, Woytek became synonymous with innovation, driving not only the program\u2019s expansion, but using data to drive improvements. For example, SEWP was among the first programs to use data to ensure supply chain security. Under the SEWP VI solicitation, the move into services came from requests from agency users of the contract.<\/p>\n

\u201cData has become much more important in what we were doing, and we greatly increased how we gather data and how we reported it. Just a little note we just sent out to industry partners, to providers, not contract holders, but companies that work with our providers are all getting reports now from us about how their products are being used. Through our contracts, we\u2019re able to get to that detail and provide them with that. We\u2019re very proud of the information we\u2019re able to give both government [and] industry,\u201d Woytek told Off the Shelf. \u201cCIOs and other decision makers are getting reports from us on their agency usage.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASA also has made adding new products or services and modifying existing contracts, as well as adding new vendors to the program, much easier over the years. Woytek said the program office adds 15 to 25 new companies to the contract every week.<\/p>\n

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