Abbie A. Hanson

Abbie A. Hanson serves as an Instrumentality Management Specialist (IMS) at the Federal Correctional Institution Estill, operating under the Bureau of Prisons within the Department of Justice. In this role, she oversees the acquisition of mission-critical food services essential to the safe, humane, and nutritionally compliant care of incarcerated populations. Her responsibilities include managing full lifecycle procurements for perishable and prepared meals, dairy, meat, baked goods, and specialized religious diets, all aligned with federal correctional health standards. She ensures compliance with USDA dietary guidelines and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements, coordinating with logistics, nutrition services, and facility operations to maintain continuity of supply. Hanson’s contractor relationships are primarily with merchant wholesalers specializing in food distribution, including general grocery, meat, dairy, and poultry suppliers. While no single vendor dominates her portfolio, she maintains stable, long-term partnerships with firms capable of meeting stringent federal food safety, traceability, and delivery schedule requirements. Her procurement approach emphasizes reliability, regulatory adherence, and scalable capacity to support high-volume, just-in-time delivery needs across a secure correctional environment. Her contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 93.6% of awards issued without set-aside restrictions. The remaining 6.4% are structured as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a measured but consistent commitment to small business participation without prioritizing specific socioeconomic categories such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. Hanson’s procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS categories 424410 (General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers), 424470 (Meat and Meat Product Merchant Wholesalers), and 424430 (Dairy Product Merchant Wholesalers), reflecting her domain expertise in perishable food supply chains. She specializes in procuring bulk, temperature-controlled commodities requiring strict shelf-life management and compliance with federal food service regulations, ensuring nutritional integrity and operational readiness across the facility’s dining programs.