WALTER L. BIKOWITZ

Director

NYS Office of General Services

Procurement Services Group

Walter Bikowitz has 32 years of experience with the New York State Office of General Services and is currently the Director of the Procurement Services Group. In that capacity, he is responsible for the direction of New York State's statewide-centralized procurement of commodities, services and technology with a staff of over 90 and sales volume in excess of $3.1 billion annually.

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Bikowitz initiated several new service programs in the Procurement Services Group. His accomplishments in that area include the State’s first travel program, the first procurement card and the first statewide Electronic Value Transfer program.

In addition, Mr. Bikowitz received a NASPO Silver Medal award for emergency standby services in 2000 that proved instrumental in reacting to September 11, 2001, developed a new online database program for libraries, for which he received a NASPO Silver Medal award in 1997, and a 1994 environmental award for New York State's first Integrated Pest Management program.