Cardona

Lesbia Cardona serves as a Contracting Officer with primary responsibility for overseeing procurement activities within the petroleum refining sector. Her role centers on managing complex acquisitions of goods and services essential to the operation, maintenance, and modernization of petroleum refinery infrastructure. She ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning procurements with national energy security objectives. Cardona routinely handles sole-source and competitive contracts for engineering services, process equipment, safety systems, and environmental compliance technologies, demonstrating a high degree of technical acumen in industrial energy systems. Cardona’s contractor relationships are concentrated within the upstream and midstream energy services industry, engaging with prime contractors specializing in refinery engineering, maintenance, and turnkey project delivery. She works closely with firms possessing deep domain expertise in hydrocarbon processing, catalyst systems, and emissions control technologies. While no specific vendor relationships are dominant, her procurement patterns reflect a preference for vendors with proven track records in hazardous environment operations and ANSI/ASME compliance standards. Her approach emphasizes performance-based contracting and rigorous vendor qualification protocols. Cardona’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic focus on technical capability and operational readiness over socioeconomic preferences, prioritizing mission-critical performance and industry-specific certifications. While she does not routinely award to 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB concerns, her processes remain fully compliant with all statutory requirements, ensuring transparency and fairness in every solicitation. Her industry focus is singularly centered on NAICS 324110—Petroleum Refineries—where she specializes in procuring capital equipment, process control systems, corrosion monitoring tools, and refinery turnaround services. Cardona possesses deep expertise in the technical requirements of refining operations, including distillation, catalytic cracking, and hydrodesulfurization processes, making her a key liaison between operational needs and acquisition execution in the energy infrastructure domain.