Adrienne R. Washington

Adrienne R. Washington serves as a Contracting Officer with a dedicated focus on procuring creative and artistic services under the Federal Acquisition Regulation. In this role, she is responsible for planning, soliciting, awarding, and administering contracts that support the delivery of independent artistic, literary, and performance-based services. Her work is central to fulfilling the agency’s mission of engaging specialized talent in the cultural and creative sectors, ensuring compliance with federal procurement standards while fostering innovation through non-traditional vendor engagement. She typically manages simplified acquisitions and task orders under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) vehicles, often utilizing FAR Part 12 streamlined procedures for commercial items. Adrienne works closely with a diverse base of independent artists, writers, performers, and creative freelancers who operate as small businesses. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, her contracting patterns reflect a preference for individual practitioners and micro-enterprises capable of delivering high-quality, bespoke creative content. Her relationships are characterized by direct engagement and minimal intermediation, emphasizing flexibility and responsiveness to evolving project needs in the arts and cultural domains. She maintains a 100% commitment to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, ensuring all solicitations are reserved exclusively for small business concerns. This reflects a robust socioeconomic strategy aimed at expanding economic opportunity for independent creators and ensuring equitable access to federal contracting opportunities. Her approach consistently prioritizes small business participation without reliance on other socioeconomic categories, reinforcing a pure small business-focused acquisition model. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 711510—Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers—encompassing services such as original writing, performance art, spoken word, visual arts commissions, and creative consulting. She specializes in acquiring non-repetitive, project-based creative outputs that require artistic discretion and intellectual property management, demonstrating deep expertise in the unique contractual and compliance considerations of the creative economy.