Ashley Riggs

Ashley Riggs serves as a key procurement professional within the National Institutes of Health, supporting the strategic acquisition of advanced biomedical research infrastructure and technical services critical to the agency’s mission of enabling cutting-edge life sciences discovery. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts focused on high-precision laboratory instrumentation, specialized software systems, and computational services that underpin hypothesis-driven research, clinical translation, and data-intensive science. Her work ensures the timely deployment of mission-critical tools that empower NIH-funded investigators across the nation’s premier research institutions. Riggs maintains consistent partnerships with leading contractors including Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Kelly Services, Inc., Fors Marsh Group LLC, PPD Development LP, and The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. These relationships reflect a preference for established vendors with proven expertise in biomedical research support, clinical trial logistics, scientific consulting, and facility modernization. Her contracting patterns emphasize performance-based outcomes, technical compliance, and long-term service reliability over transactional engagements, fostering collaborative, mission-aligned vendor relationships. Riggs’s procurement activity is entirely aligned with open competition, with 100% of awards issued under no set-aside classifications. This reflects a strategic focus on securing the highest technical capability and scale necessary to support NIH’s complex, large-scale research initiatives, rather than socioeconomic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her portfolio, she ensures all procurements adhere to full and open competition requirements under FAR Part 6. Her primary procurement focus lies within NAICS 541519 (Other Computer Related Services) and 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services), reflecting deep expertise in procuring bioinformatics platforms, data analytics systems, laboratory automation software, and integrated research IT infrastructure. She specializes in acquiring services that enable high-throughput sequencing, genomic data management, and cloud-based research environments, demonstrating strong technical fluency in the digital transformation of biomedical science.