Andrea Schottenhammel

Andrea Schottenhammel serves as a contracting professional within the Department of the Army’s 0409 AQ HQ Contract office, where she manages complex acquisition programs critical to sustaining military infrastructure across U.S. garrisons and overseas installations. Her role centers on procuring facility maintenance, specialized construction, and mission-critical equipment services that ensure operational readiness in austere and deployed environments, particularly in Europe. She handles a diverse portfolio of contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, including firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursement instruments, with a focus on long-term infrastructure resilience and logistics support. Ms. Schottenhammel maintains established relationships with key contractors including PAE Applied Technologies LLC and BSH Hausgeräte B.V., engaging them for integrated facility services, technical maintenance, and industrial equipment support. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting and lifecycle management, fostering long-term vendor partnerships that align with Army standards for reliability and compliance in high-demand operational theaters. These relationships are characterized by consistent recompete cycles and performance-driven contract modifications rather than sole-source awards. Her contracting activity reflects a strict preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-asides for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic categories. This indicates a strategic prioritization of capability, scale, and mission-critical readiness over socioeconomic targeting, consistent with the nature of large-scale, technically complex infrastructure sustainment requirements. Her primary NAICS focus areas include industrial truck and construction machinery manufacturing, plumbing and HVAC contracting, and educational support services, reflecting a unique blend of physical infrastructure maintenance and ancillary operational support functions. She procures heavy equipment, facility systems, and technical services essential to sustaining airfields, utilities, barracks, and training environments—demonstrating deep expertise in defense infrastructure lifecycle management and mission-critical logistics procurement.