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Alita Kindred serves as the Program Point of Contact for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, playing a critical role in aligning acquisition activities with the agency’s public health mission. She facilitates the procurement of technical and operational services essential to disease surveillance, laboratory diagnostics, and emergency response infrastructure. While not a contracting officer, she acts as the primary liaison between program teams and procurement offices, ensuring that acquisition requirements reflect scientific and operational priorities. Her work directly supports the acquisition of specialized engineering, construction, and management consulting services critical to maintaining CDC’s national health infrastructure. Kindred maintains consistent working relationships with leading biopharmaceutical and distribution partners, including Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, GlaxoSmithKline LLC, Pfizer Inc., Sanofi Pasteur Inc., and McKesson Specialty Distribution LLC. These partnerships primarily support the procurement of vaccines, therapeutics, and cold-chain logistics infrastructure. Her engagement with these contractors is characterized by long-term strategic alignment, often involving complex, multi-year procurement cycles tied to federal immunization programs and public health preparedness initiatives. Her procurement portfolio exhibits no set-aside preferences, with 100% of acquisitions conducted under full and open competition. This reflects a mission-driven emphasis on speed, scale, and technical capability over socioeconomic targeting, consistent with CDC’s need for rapid deployment of high-stakes health interventions during public health emergencies. Kindred’s primary NAICS focus areas include Engineering Services (541330), Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (238220), and Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (236220), indicating significant investment in laboratory facility modernization, environmental control systems, and infrastructure upgrades. She also engages in management consulting services (541618) and industrial control manufacturing (335314), underscoring her expertise in procuring technical systems that support real-time data analytics, biosafety compliance, and automated diagnostic workflows.