Alexandra Guajardo

Alexandra Guajardo serves as a key procurement lead for the City of Brownsville, overseeing the acquisition of critical infrastructure projects aligned with the city’s mission to enhance public mobility, utility resilience, and civic functionality. In her role, she manages the full lifecycle of capital improvement contracts, from needs assessment and solicitation to award and compliance, with a primary focus on heavy civil engineering and transportation construction. Her work directly supports the city’s strategic capital improvement plan, ensuring that public funds are deployed efficiently to modernize roadways, bridges, water systems, and public trails through competitive, transparent procurement practices. Guajardo engages with a broad spectrum of contractors specializing in highway construction and heavy civil engineering, fostering relationships with both regional and national firms experienced in municipal infrastructure delivery. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently evaluates vendors based on technical capability, past performance, and compliance with state and federal construction standards. Her approach emphasizes merit-based selection and performance accountability, ensuring that contractors meet stringent quality and safety benchmarks for public works projects. Her contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of acquisitions issued without set-aside designations. This indicates a focus on maximizing competition and technical capability over socioeconomic categorization, though small businesses remain eligible and encouraged to compete on equal footing under full and open procedures. Her approach prioritizes value and execution over socioeconomic preferences, aligning with the city’s emphasis on infrastructure outcomes. Guajardo’s procurement portfolio is heavily concentrated in NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) and 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction), reflecting her specialization in large-scale public works. She routinely procures engineering services, earthwork, drainage systems, pavement rehabilitation, and structural concrete work, requiring deep familiarity with DOT standards, ADA accessibility requirements, and environmental compliance protocols. Her expertise ensures that infrastructure investments are technically sound, durable, and aligned with long-term community needs.