AGA NLT 2026

Andrea Sampanis
Director, Grants QSMO
Dept. of Health and Human Services


Andrea Sampanis is the Director for the Grants Quality Service Management Office (Grants QSMO), which has a government-wide mission focused on the standardization and modernization of the grants management IT systems environment. The Grants QSMO manages a Marketplace of innovative, customer-focused solutions aimed at reducing burden for grants applicants and recipients while improving efficiencies for federal awarding agencies. Andrea leverages her 20 years of public and private sector experience to enhance the QSMO Marketplace of both federal and commercial providers through data-driven grants ecosystem analysis. She also works to improve the grant applicant/recipient experience through multiple Customer Experience (CX) initiatives. The CX work done by the Grants QSMO led to their selection as a 2023 Service to the Citizen Award Winner. Andrea seeks to bring innovative technology to leverage grants data and ease recipient burden, exemplified by the Federal Grants Systems Hub which won a 2025 ACT-IAC Innovation Impact Award. Prior to joining Grants QSMO, she supported the Navy’s SAP implementation across the Naval enterprise and served as a Program Manager at GSA’s Office of Shared Solutions and Performance Improvement (OSSPI) for the President’s Management Agenda goals for Sharing Quality Services and Results-Oriented Accountability for Grants. Before joining public service, Andrea was a Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting where she was the Chief of Staff for their Shared Service offering and served clients at DOD, DHS, and IRS. Andrea earned her Master’s of Public Administration (MPA) from George Washington University and her bachelor’s from Providence College. She is a Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM), SAP ERP certified, and holds her COR Level II certification. Originally from Missouri, Andrea now lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, Peter and is a proud mother of Tristan and Isabel.

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