May 2024 Honorees

Lakecia Dingle and Samantha Delp
Over the past 6-months, both Lakecia Dingle and Samantha Delp have been working diligently to bring DCE through the procurement process and making significant headway in the total improvement of procurement here at DCE. Sam and Lakecia process hundreds of contracts and change orders to ensure that DCE can continue to provide services to agencies throughout the state. Due to the high volume of contracts, they monitor or assist OSP in monitoring. They spend a significant amount of their day tediously working through each contract to ensure that each contract meets the Maryland legal standards. This process is time consuming as systems in place require people throughout the state to look at the contracts and approve. Regardless of the tedious process, Sam and Lakecia have been instrumental in getting contracts approved and processed in time so that projects are done on time and correctly. In addition to their normal process above, Lakecia and Sam have taken on a considerable number of extra tasks to repair past contracts for DCE. This task itself has required Lakecia and Sam to spend hours beyond working hours researching and fixing these issues. Lastly, Lakecia and Sam have taken a significant amount of time in improving DCE’s processes by updating forms and ensuring that each form in the package is filled out properly before a contract is approved. This has ensured that DCE maintains accountability to the agencies within the state and the fiduciary responsibility to the people of Maryland. This has also resulted in a better streamline process for the Project Managers that they support.