Alfredia Allen

Alfredia G. Allen serves as a Contract Specialist within the Incident Support Section (ISS70) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where she plays a pivotal role in enabling rapid disaster response through the acquisition of mission-critical services. Her responsibilities include managing the full lifecycle of procurements under FAR Part 13 and Part 15, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning contracts with the agency’s imperative to sustain operational continuity during domestic emergencies. She specializes in time-sensitive, mission-essential acquisitions that support survivor assistance, infrastructure resilience, and logistical readiness in austere environments. Allen cultivates collaborative relationships with a diverse array of vendors, including transportation providers, language services firms, and specialty contractors capable of deploying rapidly under emergency conditions. Her working patterns emphasize agility and scalability, favoring vendors with proven experience in federal emergency response, logistics coordination, and rapid mobilization. She engages both large-capacity contractors and small businesses capable of delivering essential services under high-pressure, time-constrained scenarios. Her procurement strategy reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 88.9% of acquisitions conducted without set-asides, yet she maintains a consistent 11.1% commitment to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. While not heavily focused on 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her approach ensures meaningful small business participation through unrestricted and total small business set-asides, balancing operational urgency with socioeconomic objectives. Allen’s primary procurement focus centers on Translation and Interpretation Services (NAICS 541930), critical for multilingual survivor support, followed by freight transportation services including long-distance LTL trucking (484122), freight arrangement (488510), deep-sea cargo transport (483111), and roofing contracting (238160). Her technical expertise lies in securing logistics, language, and infrastructure support services essential to sustaining emergency operations in the field.