CARMELITA SAGGESE 6264210 CARMELITA SAGGESE

Carmelita Saggese serves as the primary contracting representative for the Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella Naples Office, where she plays a critical role in enabling the operational readiness of U.S. Navy and Department of Defense assets across the Mediterranean. She manages a portfolio of acquisitions focused on ship repair, maintenance, and vessel modernization, ensuring timely procurement of mission-critical services that sustain fleet availability. Her work directly supports the agency’s core mission of naval infrastructure sustainment through direct contracting for dry-dock repairs, hull integrity restoration, and propulsion system overhauls, often under time-sensitive operational timelines. She maintains active working relationships with key contractors including TERRESTRIS, LLC, RA INTERNATIONAL FZCO, and ALLIUM US HOLDING LLC, which provide specialized engineering, logistics, and technical support services for naval vessel sustainment. These partnerships reflect a balanced approach between established international vendors and U.S.-based firms capable of delivering complex maritime maintenance solutions under expeditionary conditions. Her contracting patterns emphasize performance-based outcomes and contract compliance with Navy technical specifications. Saggese exhibits a strong commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with approximately half of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, aligning with DoD priorities to expand small business participation in defense logistics. The remaining half are awarded without set-asides, typically for specialized or sole-source requirements where small business capacity is limited. This dual approach ensures both competition and mission capability. Her procurement focus is evenly split between NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing) and NAICS 813110 (Religious Organizations), the latter reflecting unique facility support or morale, welfare, and recreation services for deployed personnel. Her technical expertise lies in maritime industrial base sustainment, with deep familiarity in naval engineering standards, corrosion control, and shipyard infrastructure contracting.