Alicia Smith

Alicia Smith serves as a procurement specialist for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, where she plays a critical role in securing operational support services essential to maintaining safe, functional, and inclusive learning environments. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of acquisitions for temporary staffing and administrative support services, ensuring alignment with the district’s mission of equitable student outcomes. She manages solicitations, evaluates vendor proposals, and administers contracts under the Temporary Help Services NAICS code, focusing on timely, compliant, and cost-effective procurement of qualified personnel to support instructional and non-instructional school operations. Smith’s contractor relationships are primarily with temporary staffing agencies and workforce solutions providers that deliver certified paraprofessionals, instructional aides, custodial staff, and administrative support personnel. She cultivates partnerships with vendors who demonstrate reliability, compliance with education-sector labor standards, and capacity to scale staffing rapidly in response to seasonal or emergency needs. Her approach emphasizes vendor performance metrics, adherence to background check requirements, and responsiveness to district-wide scheduling demands. Smith’s procurement strategy reflects a uniform preference for open competition, with 100% of acquisitions conducted under no set-aside conditions. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic designations such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, her process remains transparent and accessible to all qualified vendors, ensuring broad market participation without artificial restrictions. Her technical domain expertise centers exclusively on NAICS 561320—Temporary Help Services—where she specializes in procuring flexible, on-demand human capital solutions tailored to K-12 educational settings. This includes managing contracts for substitute teachers, special education assistants, school clerical staff, and facility support workers, ensuring seamless operational continuity across all school sites.