Cherie Rodriguez

Cherie R. Rodriguez serves as a Data Entry specialist within the U.S. Coast Guard’s CEU MIAMI (70Z082), playing a critical support role in the agency’s acquisition lifecycle. Her responsibilities include accurately inputting, validating, and maintaining procurement data for civil engineering and infrastructure contracts, ensuring compliance with federal contracting regulations and system integrity. She facilitates the timely processing of solicitations, award documentation, and contract modifications, directly enabling the agency’s mission to sustain and modernize maritime infrastructure. Her work underpins the procurement of construction and engineering services essential to coastal resilience, aids to navigation, and station modernization efforts. While specific contractor names are not available in the dataset, Rodriguez routinely interfaces with a broad network of small business vendors, particularly those certified under HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), and general Small Business Set-Aside programs. Her role supports a contracting environment that prioritizes equitable access for underserved businesses, ensuring accurate data capture for socioeconomic reporting and compliance tracking. She maintains consistent, detail-oriented workflows that support transparent and auditable vendor relationships across multiple contract types. Rodriguez’s procurement activities reflect a strong institutional emphasis on socioeconomic set-asides, with over 57% of acquisitions designated for Total Small Business Set-Asides, nearly 29% for HUBZone firms, and 14% for SDVOSB concerns. This pattern demonstrates a deliberate commitment to fostering small business participation in federal infrastructure projects. Her data management ensures accurate representation of these socioeconomic goals in procurement records and reporting systems. Her primary procurement focus aligns with NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction), reflecting the agency’s emphasis on coastal facility rehabilitation and navigation aid maintenance. She also supports acquisitions in plumbing, heating, air-conditioning (238220), and electrical contracting (238210), with minor activity in manufactured home manufacturing (321991). This technical domain expertise underscores her familiarity with civil engineering systems and infrastructure modernization requirements critical to Coast Guard operational readiness.