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Miriam Singer, a twenty-eight year veteran of Miami-Dade County, was appointed Director of the Department of Procurement Management (DPM) in March 2005. Having joined DPM within the first six months of the Department's formation, Ms. Singer was responsible for implementing the financial, staffing, operational and administrative functions. She successfully implemented a Board approved revenue producing program which has generated in excess of $63 million. The Department is self-supporting. This has allowed additional general fund support for other service priorities.
Ms. Singer has served the County with distinction in a number of progressively responsible positions since joining the County in 1982. Ms. Singer was responsible for restructuring and managing the County's Contract Review and Compliance Division as Assistant Director of the Department of Business Development. In this position, she was charged with contract compliance management of $1 billion annually in construction, procurement and professional services contracts. She worked for the Miami-Dade Transit Agency, the County Manager's Office, the Department of Justice Assistance, and the Dade Miami Criminal Justice Council. As Director of DPM, she is responsible for executive management and operations of a department responsible for the centralized purchase of goods and services for a workforce of over 26,000 staff serving 2.4 million residents, and visitors. DPM awards over $1.55 billion in contracts annually. Over 1300 contracts valued at $4.96 billion support public services delivery by all County departments. During her tenure, e-procurement, unprecedented value added negotiations, enhanced competition policies, progressive customer service initiatives, enhanced professional development and certification incentives, have been implemented to ensure best value purchases for the taxpayer's dollar. Ms. Singer is a member of the Greater Miami Chapter of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP), NIGP's National Education and Professional Development Committee, the Florida Association of Public Purchasing Officers and the Institute for Supply Management. She is a member of the US Communities Advisory Board. Under her leadership, the Department of Procurement Management has been recognized as a the first county in North America to receive the highest form of peer recognition, the NIGP Pareto Award, as well as awards for innovation and best practices from the National Association of Counties (NACO), and a recipient of the National Purchasing Institute's Achievement of Excellence in Procurement Award for eight years. Ms. Singer graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Public Administration. She holds professional purchasing certifications from the Universal Public Purchasing Certification Council (Certified Public Purchasing Officer) and the State of Florida (Florida Certified Purchasing Agent and Florida Certified Purchasing Manager). She has led volunteer community and statewide efforts aimed at ensuring equity, fairness and opportunity. Ms. Singer is a past president of the Coalition of Hispanic American Women, founding chair of the Florida Supreme Court Commission on Fairness, a former member of the Judicial Management Council and a former Governing Board member of the South Florida Water Management District.Back to Top Page Last Edited: Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:34:28 PM
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