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Randolph Sawyer
founder and CEO
Tunlaw Consulting, LLC.
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Randolph Sawyer is the founder and CEO of Tunlaw Consulting, LLC.  As a consultant, he acts as an independent monitor on Compliance Agreements, implemented risk management programs, and builds organizational cultures of integrity and compliance. He has a proactive approach to identifying and preventing risk, a proven ability to build consensus, and a consistent history of modeling the highest levels of integrity and professionalism. He is considered an SME for federal suspension and debarment activity, corporate internal controls, compliance hotlines, process design, and best practices for ethics and compliance program management. He is fully cognizant of FAR and DFARS contracting procedures, and both pre-award and post-award Federal contracting issues.

Randy is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE); Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP); Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) Level III; FAC Contracting Officer Representative (FAC-COR) Level III; and, FAC in Program and Project Management (FAC-P/PM) Level I. He is an active member of the American Bar Association Suspension and Debarment Committee; Association of Certified Fraud Examiners; Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics; and has conducted training for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC).  Randy is a graduate of the University of Texas, at Austin, with both a MA in Economics with a focus on labor law and a BA in Economics, Cum Laude, with a focus on comparable economics systems. 

Randy worked most recently with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the DHS Suspending and Debarring Official (SDO).  He is an expert at the federal Suspension & Debarment process; both under the FAR and the NCR. During more than eight years with DHS, he gained extensive expertise as the SDO at DHS and previously as the SDO at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Prior to that, he managed complex federal contracts for ICE in the USA and Bechtel National in Jordan and the USA; performed as the Director of Contracting for PWC Logistics in Kuwait, and as a Staff Contracting Officer with Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) as an activated USAF Reservist serving in Iraq.  He was an Audit Manager and Staff Auditor with Air Force Audit Agency for six years.  His contracting experience includes contract administration, acquisition planning, and evaluating contractor performance.

Career highlights include building an S&D program for ICE that became a Center of Excellence for DHS and was identified by the GAO as one of the most successful programs in the federal government.

Publications include: “Suspension and Debarment as a Tool to Combat Human Trafficking,” Feb 1, 2015. The Procurement Lawyer, Volume 50, Number 2.

The New Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS) and De Facto Debarments, Dec 1, 2012.  Contract Management/National Contract Management Association.

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