Alicia Maldonado Torres

Alicia Maldonado Torres serves as a primary procurement lead within the Defense Health Agency, supporting the agency’s mission to ensure operational readiness through advanced medical infrastructure and clinical support services. She manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions focused on diagnostic technologies, laboratory services, and health data systems, aligning with DHA’s strategic priorities in modernizing clinical workflows and securing pharmaceutical and equipment supply chains. Her work directly enables the delivery of high-quality, mission-critical healthcare to uniformed service members, retirees, and their families across global DoD installations. Maldonado Torres maintains consistent partnerships with specialized vendors including Dependable On-Site Scan & Shred, Inc., Hanith Bioscience, LLC, Livion Technology, LLC, I-2-I Solutions, Inc., and Draeger Inc., reflecting a preference for niche providers offering laboratory testing, biotech research support, medical device maintenance, and secure data handling solutions. Her contracting patterns indicate a focus on technical service providers with domain-specific expertise rather than broad-based contractors, fostering long-term, performance-driven vendor relationships grounded in compliance and clinical reliability. Her procurement approach is overwhelmingly non-set-aside, with 88.9% of awards issued under full and open competition, indicating a strong emphasis on technical merit and capability over socioeconomic preferences. However, she maintains a measurable commitment to small business participation, with 11.1% of awards designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating balanced adherence to federal contracting goals without compromising mission-critical requirements. Her primary NAICS focus lies in Testing Laboratories and Services (541380), with significant activity in analytical instrument manufacturing (334516), biotechnology R&D (541714), and custom computer systems design (541511/541512). This reflects deep expertise in procuring advanced diagnostic equipment, laboratory automation, bioinformatics platforms, and secure health data infrastructure critical to modern military medicine.