Aksana Belik

Aksana Belik serves as a procurement specialist within the City of Minneapolis, supporting the agency’s mission to modernize public infrastructure and municipal services through strategic acquisitions. In her role, she manages the solicitation, evaluation, and award of contracts for professional services critical to urban resilience, including architectural design, environmental management, and administrative consulting. Her work directly enables the city’s priorities in transportation, water systems, and environmental remediation by ensuring compliance with municipal procurement codes and aligning vendor capabilities with long-term public infrastructure goals. She handles complex, service-based procurements requiring technical evaluation and regulatory alignment, often coordinating with engineering and environmental departments to define scope and performance metrics. Belik collaborates with a diverse pool of professional service providers, including architectural firms, management consultants, and IT solution providers, though no single contractor dominates her portfolio. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for qualified, experienced vendors with demonstrated capacity in municipal projects, emphasizing technical competency, regulatory knowledge, and past performance over price alone. She engages with vendors through competitive sealed bidding and request for proposal processes, fostering transparent and accountable procurement practices. Belik’s contracting activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under general competition. This reflects a strategic focus on open access and merit-based selection rather than socioeconomic set-asides, consistent with the agency’s approach to securing high-capacity service providers for mission-critical infrastructure initiatives. While small business participation is not formally prioritized through set-asides, vendors of all sizes are evaluated on technical merit and capacity to deliver complex municipal services. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541310 (architectural services), 541519 (other computer-related services), 541611 (management consulting), and 541930 (translation and interpretation), with additional activity in 924110 (water and waste program administration). She specializes in acquiring technical consulting, digital systems support, and language services to enhance public service delivery and regulatory compliance across city departments.