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Currently FEMA Region 7 manages the Acquisition process through multiple systems and repositories throughout the acquisition lifecycle. During the initiation of the Acquisition process the Programs start trying to collect and building purchase request documents which are spread out across multiple share drives, desktops, and SharePoints. After they have gathered and developed the initial packet the manual process of routing everything for review and approval beings. During this routing process multiple versions of documents being to collect again in multiple places. Once the packet is approved and accepted by the contracting team the program offices lack the visibility to see the status of the solicitation and/or award without manually emailing RFI for updates. The current state of the process has many breakdowns from programs not knowing what documents are required, where to find the required documents, where or who to send documents to, when documents are awarded, and when contract are going to expirer and/or need renewed.