Celia E. Cockburn

Celia E. Cockburn serves as a Contracting Officer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ W076 Endist Galveston office, where she manages the acquisition of critical heavy civil engineering projects essential to national defense and water resource infrastructure. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, awarding, and administering contracts for large-scale public works, including dredging, channel stabilization, coastal protection, and navigation system enhancements. Operating under the Department of the Army, Cockburn ensures compliance with federal procurement regulations while aligning acquisitions with the Corps’ mission to maintain and improve the nation’s waterway systems. She routinely handles complex, multi-year construction contracts requiring specialized technical expertise and rigorous performance oversight. Cockburn maintains long-standing relationships with a core group of experienced maritime and heavy civil contractors, including ORION GOVERNMENT SERVICES LLC, CURTIN MARITIME CORP, THE DUTRA GROUP, CALLAN MARINE LIMITED, and RUSSELL MARINE LLC. These vendors possess proven capabilities in marine construction, dredging operations, and heavy equipment deployment, making them preferred partners for mission-critical infrastructure projects. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance history, technical competence, and operational reliability, fostering stable, high-performance vendor partnerships grounded in consistent delivery and regulatory compliance. Cockburn’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on full and open competition, with 100% of her awards issued under no set-aside classifications. She does not utilize 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic set-asides, instead prioritizing technical capability and past performance as the primary selection criteria. This approach ensures the highest level of operational readiness and project execution for complex civil engineering tasks, aligning with the Army Corps’ mission-critical infrastructure requirements. Her primary procurement focus is exclusively under NAICS 237990—Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction—encompassing large-scale marine, coastal, and inland waterway infrastructure. She procures services involving dredging, bulkhead construction, breakwater installation, and hydraulic engineering solutions, requiring deep domain expertise in marine construction methodologies and federal environmental compliance standards.