Carolin Price

Carolin Price serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to advance ordnance systems, explosives, and precision instrumentation. She manages a portfolio of technical acquisitions focused on hardware manufacturing, sealing systems, and specialized metal fabrication critical to weapon system reliability and sustainment. Her work ensures the timely delivery of mission-critical components through competitive contracting mechanisms aligned with naval warfare requirements, emphasizing technical rigor, supply chain resilience, and lifecycle support for high-risk ordnance applications. She maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of specialized contractors, including TOTAL CONCEPTS OF DESIGN INC, Boh Environmental, L.L.C., CHUCKING MACHINE PRODUCTS, INC., CANADIAN COMMERCIAL CORP, and DEVAL LIFE CYCLE SUPPORT LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in precision metal fabrication, explosive handling systems, and environmental compliance for defense applications. Her contracting approach prioritizes technical capability over cost alone, fostering long-term collaborations with firms possessing niche engineering capabilities and defense-specific certifications. Carolin Price’s procurement activity is exclusively conducted under open, unrestricted competitions, with no set-asides designated for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic categories. This reflects a strategic alignment with the agency’s need for highly specialized, low-supplier-market-capacity components, where only a limited number of qualified vendors meet stringent military performance and safety standards. While small business participation is not formally prioritized, all procurements remain fully compliant with federal acquisition regulations. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 332510 (Hardware Manufacturing), 339991 (Gasket, Packing, and Sealing Device Manufacturing), and 332999 (All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing). She regularly acquires custom-fabricated metal components, high-pressure seals, detonation-resistant hardware, and precision-machined ordnance subsystems, demonstrating deep domain expertise in the technical requirements of naval explosives and munitions sustainment.