Brenda J McGehee

Brenda J. McGehee serves as a Contract Specialist within the 6982AF Central Federal Lands Division of the Federal Highway Administration, where she manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions critical to maintaining and enhancing transportation infrastructure across federally managed lands. Her work centers on the acquisition of highway, bridge, and civil engineering services to ensure safe, durable, and sustainable access to national parks, forests, and Native American territories. She specializes in competitively awarded, performance-based contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, with a focus on complex construction projects requiring rigorous engineering oversight and compliance with federal environmental and safety standards. McGehee maintains long-standing, high-volume relationships with key contractors including MARTIN BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION, MCCULLOUGH CONSTRUCTION INC., WEST COAST CONTRACTORS, INC., S.T.RHOADES CONSTRUCTION INCORPORATED, and SEB ENGINEERING INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for experienced, pre-qualified firms with demonstrated capability in federal construction environments. Her contracting approach emphasizes accountability, schedule adherence, and technical compliance, often involving design-build and construction-manager-at-risk delivery methods to streamline project execution on remote and logistically challenging sites. While the majority of her acquisitions are conducted without set-asides—reflecting the scale and complexity of infrastructure needs—McGehee consistently prioritizes small business participation, with HUBZone and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) set-asides representing a meaningful portion of her portfolio. Her socioeconomic contracting patterns align with federal goals to foster economic opportunity in underserved communities while maintaining mission-critical performance standards. Her procurement focus is overwhelmingly concentrated in NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction), where she procures heavy civil construction services including earthwork, pavement, drainage, and structural bridge elements. A minor share of acquisitions supports technical consulting and specialized engineering services, underscoring her domain expertise in infrastructure lifecycle management and federal construction compliance.