Alexandra Gallerio

Alexandra Gallerio serves as the Contracting Authority for the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, where she leads the acquisition strategy for technical consulting services critical to modernizing Canada’s public safety infrastructure. In this primary contracting role, she oversees the full lifecycle of procurements aligned with the agency’s mission to enhance digital resilience, refine evidence-based program evaluation frameworks, and upgrade administrative systems supporting frontline operations. Her portfolio is exclusively focused on professional services, particularly those requiring specialized expertise in public sector transformation, cybersecurity integration, and operational process optimization. Gallerio maintains a broad and competitive vendor ecosystem, engaging with a diverse range of firms specializing in scientific and technical consulting. While no single contractor dominates her award portfolio, she consistently solicits proposals from firms with proven experience in public safety modernization, digital platform design, and data-driven policy analysis. Her contracting approach emphasizes transparency, competitive bidding, and performance-based outcomes, fostering long-term partnerships with consultants who demonstrate adaptive capacity and sector-specific domain knowledge. Gallerio’s procurement patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions classified as “No Set-Aside.” She does not currently utilize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, instead prioritizing technical merit, past performance, and alignment with mission-critical outcomes. This approach underscores a focus on capability over socioeconomic classification, ensuring the agency secures the highest-quality consulting services available in the marketplace. Her primary NAICS classification is 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services), reflecting her exclusive focus on high-level advisory and systems integration work. She procures services including digital platform modernization, operational workflow redesign, cybersecurity risk assessments, and program evaluation frameworks tailored to public safety contexts. Her technical expertise lies at the intersection of government operations and advanced consulting, ensuring that procurement decisions directly enable mission readiness and institutional resilience.