Barry Beale

Barry B. Beale serves as a secondary procurement specialist within the W7NU Uspfo Activity Oh Arng, supporting the Department of the Army’s mission to sustain operational readiness for Ohio Army National Guard units. His responsibilities include facilitating acquisitions for critical garrison infrastructure, subsistence services, and facility maintenance, ensuring compliance with federal contracting regulations and mission-aligned resource allocation. While not the lead contracting officer, Beale plays a vital role in coordinating contract execution, vendor engagement, and requirement validation across logistical and facility support domains, enabling seamless delivery of training, housing, and meal services to reserve component personnel. Beale maintains consistent working relationships with key contractors including Hovis Construction LLC, Arilllic LLC, MIC Industries Inc., and Columbus Corporate Caterers Inc., reflecting a stable ecosystem of vendors specialized in structural metal fabrication, concrete construction, and institutional catering. These partnerships are characterized by repeat engagement and long-term service delivery, indicating a preference for proven performers with demonstrated capability in military garrison environments. His procurement activities emphasize reliability, compliance, and operational continuity over transactional sourcing. His contracting patterns reveal a strong commitment to small business participation, with 72.7% of acquisitions set aside for total small businesses under FAR 19.5, and 9.1% reserved for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. This reflects a deliberate strategy to foster local economic resilience and enhance contractor diversity within the Ohio National Guard support network, aligning with Department of Defense socioeconomic goals. Beale’s primary procurement focus centers on NAICS 332312 (fabricated structural metal manufacturing) and 722320 (caterers), each accounting for 27.3% of activity, followed by water and sewer construction (237110) and poured concrete foundation work (238110). These reflect a technical domain expertise in garrison sustainment—procuring modular facilities, food service systems, and infrastructure upgrades that directly support self-sufficient, mission-ready training environments for reserve forces.