Catharina Bjelovitic

Catharina Bjelovitic serves as the primary procurement lead for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a Department of Energy contractor facility dedicated to advancing fundamental science through cutting-edge particle accelerators and photon science infrastructure. In this role, she manages the acquisition of mission-critical commercial and institutional construction services essential to maintaining and expanding SLAC’s world-class research facilities. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of construction-related contracts, from needs assessment and solicitation development to contract award and performance oversight, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and alignment with DOE’s strategic goals for scientific infrastructure resilience and innovation. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the procurement record, Bjelovitic’s portfolio consistently engages general contractors, specialty construction firms, and engineering services providers with demonstrated expertise in high-precision facility construction for scientific environments. Her working relationships reflect a preference for vendors capable of delivering complex, code-compliant builds under stringent safety and contamination-control standards typical of DOE national laboratories. Bjelovitic’s contracting activity shows a 100% preference for non-set-aside procurements, indicating a focus on open competition rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. This pattern suggests an operational emphasis on technical capability and facility-specific qualifications over socioeconomic criteria, consistent with the highly specialized nature of SLAC’s infrastructure needs. Her primary procurement focus is centered on NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), reflecting her expertise in acquiring large-scale construction services for laboratories, control rooms, beamlines, and ancillary support buildings. She routinely procures services involving structural modifications, seismic retrofits, radiation shielding installations, and cleanroom construction—all critical to sustaining SLAC’s leadership in ultrafast physics and quantum materials research.