Amberly Kovalick

Amberly Kovalick serves as a Contracting Officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where she plays a pivotal role in executing strategic acquisitions that support the agency’s mission to improve healthcare access and quality through data-driven policy and technology modernization. She manages a diverse portfolio of professional services contracts, primarily focused on administrative management consulting, systems design, and digital infrastructure solutions that enable CMS’s operational efficiency and program integrity initiatives. Her acquisitions are critical to sustaining the infrastructure behind Medicare, Medicaid, and the Health Insurance Marketplace, ensuring compliance with federal procurement regulations and aligning with agency-wide digital transformation goals. Kovalick maintains consistent working relationships with leading federal contractors including Maximus Federal Services, Peraton Enterprise Solutions, Novitas Solutions, National Government Services, and General Dynamics Information Technology. These partnerships are characterized by long-term, performance-based contract vehicles that emphasize outcomes in claims processing, beneficiary support, data analytics, and system integration. Her procurement approach prioritizes vendor reliability, technical capability, and adherence to federal health IT standards, fostering collaborative, mission-aligned engagements with industry partners. Her contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 93.3% of awards issued without set-asides, indicating a focus on maximizing competition and value across the broad federal marketplace. While small business participation is limited to 6.7% of awards, primarily through Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, her approach remains aligned with agency priorities that emphasize scale, continuity, and mission-critical performance over socioeconomic targeting. Kovalick’s procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services), which accounts for over 70% of her portfolio, followed by computer systems design and data processing services under NAICS 541512, 541519, 541511, and 518210. She specializes in procuring enterprise-level consulting, software development, cloud infrastructure, and operational support services that underpin CMS’s digital modernization and healthcare analytics initiatives.