Alissa Westervelt

Alissa Westervelt serves as a SLED procurement professional supporting the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY), where she plays a critical role in managing acquisitions aligned with the agency’s mission to ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable waste management operations. Her responsibilities include soliciting, evaluating, and awarding contracts for solid waste collection services, specialized sanitation equipment, and infrastructure modernization initiatives. She operates within the agency’s broader procurement framework to ensure compliance with municipal, state, and federal regulations while advancing operational resilience and environmental sustainability goals. Her acquisitions primarily focus on service-based contracts that support daily sanitation workflows and long-term fleet and facility upgrades. Westervelt works with a broad spectrum of vendors specializing in municipal solid waste collection, refuse haulage, and sanitation vehicle maintenance. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she engages with regional and national service providers capable of scaling operations across New York City’s five boroughs. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for established vendors with proven track records in public-sector sanitation, emphasizing reliability, regulatory compliance, and fleet readiness. Vendor partnerships are typically performance-based, with strict service-level agreements tied to collection frequency, route efficiency, and environmental standards. Westervelt’s procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under open competition. This reflects DSNY’s operational need for scalable, high-capacity service providers capable of meeting the city’s volume demands and 24/7 service requirements. While socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB are not utilized in her portfolio, her approach ensures competitive fairness and broad market access, prioritizing capability and capacity over socioeconomic designation. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 562111 (Solid Waste Collection), encompassing curbside pickup, transfer station operations, recycling stream management, and related logistical services. She specializes in procuring integrated waste collection systems, including specialized trucks, compaction technology, and digital route optimization platforms. Her technical expertise lies in evaluating operational performance metrics, fleet maintenance protocols, and environmental compliance standards critical to sustaining NYC’s sanitation infrastructure.