Angela D Fortson

Angela D. Fortson serves as a key procurement professional within the 693JJ3 Acquisition and Grants Management unit of the Federal Highway Administration, supporting the Department of Transportation’s mission to enhance the safety, resilience, and innovation of the nation’s highway infrastructure. She manages a diverse portfolio of technical acquisitions focused on engineering services and research-driven solutions, ensuring that contracting activities align with data-informed infrastructure planning and operational excellence. Her work directly enables the procurement of critical technical support for highway design, performance monitoring, and transportation systems innovation. Fortson maintains strong, ongoing relationships with leading institutional and commercial contractors, including K & M Transportation Services LLC and the University of California, Los Angeles. These partnerships reflect a balanced approach to sourcing, combining the agility of specialized small firms with the deep technical capacity of academic research institutions. Her contracting patterns emphasize long-term collaboration with vendors capable of delivering high-quality engineering analysis, transportation modeling, and applied research services that inform federal policy and infrastructure investment decisions. Her procurement strategy prioritizes small business participation, with 40% of her acquisitions set aside for total small businesses under FAR 19.5, while 60% remain open to full and open competition. This reflects a deliberate effort to foster economic inclusion without compromising technical rigor, consistently leveraging small business capabilities in engineering and research domains. She does not rely on specialized socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a) or HUBZone, instead focusing on broad small business eligibility under standard competitive procedures. Fortson’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences) and NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), reflecting her specialization in applied transportation research, infrastructure performance analysis, and systems engineering. She routinely procures technical services related to traffic modeling, pavement lifecycle assessment, intelligent transportation systems, and safety evaluation studies, ensuring that federal highway investments are grounded in evidence-based science and engineering excellence.