Adam Smith

Adam Smith serves as a strategic procurement lead within Virginia Tech’s Facilities and Campus Services division, overseeing the acquisition of temporary staffing and operational support services critical to maintaining campus infrastructure and academic operations. His role centers on ensuring timely, compliant, and cost-effective procurement of temporary help services to support facility maintenance, event logistics, administrative backfill, and research lab operations. As a key liaison between campus departments and external service providers, Smith aligns contracting decisions with the university’s mission of sustaining a safe, functional, and scalable learning and research environment. He manages a high-volume, low-dollar-value procurement portfolio focused on agile workforce solutions that respond to fluctuating operational demands across academic and residential campuses. Smith’s contracting patterns reflect a reliance on a broad base of non-exclusive temporary staffing agencies, with no single vendor dominating award activity. He engages with a diverse network of service providers—including regional and national temporary help firms—that meet Virginia Tech’s compliance, insurance, and background screening requirements. His working relationships are transactional and performance-driven, emphasizing responsiveness, workforce flexibility, and adherence to state and federal labor standards. Vendor selection prioritizes reliability, scalability, and adherence to institutional policies over long-term sole-source arrangements. Smith’s procurement approach is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of acquisitions conducted under general commercial terms without preference for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic categories. This reflects Virginia Tech’s operational need for rapid workforce deployment and the nature of temporary services, which are often procured through competitive bidding among large, established staffing firms rather than small business-specific channels. His primary focus is NAICS 561320 (Temporary Help Services), encompassing clerical, custodial, technical support, and event staffing. He specializes in procuring flexible, on-demand labor solutions that support campus operations without permanent hiring, ensuring seamless continuity during peak academic periods, facility renovations, and research surge cycles. His expertise lies in navigating the intersection of public sector procurement rules and the dynamic temporary labor market.