Amy Houts-Gilfriche

Amy Houts-Gilfriche serves as a key procurement professional at NASA Kennedy Space Center, where she manages acquisitions critical to sustaining and modernizing the nation’s premier spaceport infrastructure. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, and awarding contracts for facilities and real property services that support launch vehicle processing, mission control operations, and environmental compliance systems. She plays a vital role in advancing the Center’s strategic mission by ensuring timely delivery of mission-enabling infrastructure through compliant, performance-based contracting practices. Her portfolio is exclusively focused on nonresidential building leasing and related facility support services, aligning with NASA’s need for flexible, scalable, and secure operational environments. She maintains long-standing procurement relationships with NUMUNU MARTINEZ JV, LLC and CINKA CONSTRUCTION & CONSULTING SERVICES LLC, both of which provide specialized facility management, maintenance, and infrastructure support services. These partnerships reflect a preference for experienced contractors with proven capabilities in high-reliability, safety-critical environments typical of aerospace operations. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance metrics, lifecycle cost analysis, and compliance with federal facility standards, fostering stable, mission-aligned vendor relationships. Amy’s procurement activity shows no use of socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on technical capability and operational readiness over socioeconomic preferences, prioritizing mission-critical performance above all else. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, all procurements adhere strictly to FAR compliance and competitive transparency standards. Her primary focus is on NAICS 531120—Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings—where she procures leased facilities, hangar space, and mission support infrastructure essential to launch vehicle integration and spacecraft processing. Her domain expertise lies in acquiring turnkey facility solutions that meet NASA’s stringent safety, environmental, and security requirements for spaceflight operations.