Alanna Medina

Alanna Medina serves as a key procurement professional within the Acquisition Services Division of the Department of Energy, supporting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s mission to ensure reliable and secure energy markets through strategic acquisitions of advanced software and data infrastructure. She manages the end-to-end contracting lifecycle for enterprise-grade analytical tools, real-time market data platforms, and mission-critical software maintenance services that enable regulatory oversight and transmission system monitoring. Her work directly enables the agency’s technical teams to perform high-fidelity energy market analysis, ensuring compliance with federal energy regulations and grid reliability standards. Medina cultivates partnerships with a diverse range of vendors specializing in software publishing, computing infrastructure, and engineering services. She regularly engages with firms offering data analytics platforms, cloud-based hosting solutions, and custom software development services tailored to energy market modeling. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based requirements, agile acquisition methodologies, and long-term service-level agreements to ensure system resilience and continuous operational support. Medina’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of awards issued under non-set-aside conditions. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her process remains transparent and compliant with all federal acquisition regulations, ensuring fair and equitable access for all qualified vendors. Her primary acquisition focus lies in NAICS 513210 (Software Publishers) and 518210 (Computing Infrastructure Providers), with significant activity in engineering services (541330) and specialized electrical component manufacturing (335999). She specializes in procuring real-time data ingestion systems, grid simulation software, cybersecurity-enhanced analytics platforms, and automated reporting tools critical to FERC’s regulatory functions, demonstrating deep domain expertise in energy market technology and infrastructure modernization.