Alisa Coffin

Alisa Coffin serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, Office of Acquisition and Procurement, where she facilitates mission-critical acquisitions to sustain scientific research infrastructure. She specializes in securing advanced laboratory instrumentation, precision environmental control systems, and technical consulting services that enable data-driven agricultural research at federal field stations and experimental sites. Her work directly supports the ARS’s strategic goals of modernizing research capabilities and ensuring operational resilience across national agricultural science networks. Coffin manages complex procurement actions under full and open competition, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning acquisitions with scientific priorities. Her primary contractor relationships include McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC, Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, and L1 Enterprises Incorporated, with whom she maintains consistent, long-term partnerships for technical consulting, facility modernization, and specialized equipment integration. These vendors are selected for their expertise in delivering high-precision, research-grade solutions tailored to USDA’s unique environmental and analytical requirements. Coffin’s contracting approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and vendor accountability in delivering mission-critical support services. Coffin’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her awards issued without set-aside designations, including no use of 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. This reflects a strategic focus on technical capability over socioeconomic categorization, prioritizing specialized expertise and proven performance in high-stakes research environments. Her primary procurement activity centers on NAICS 541690—Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services—encompassing specialized engineering, environmental systems design, laboratory automation, and research infrastructure optimization. She consistently procures services that support advanced data acquisition, climate-controlled research environments, and analytical instrumentation maintenance, demonstrating deep domain expertise in supporting cutting-edge agricultural science operations.