Claudia P Mejia Forte

Claudia P. Mejia Forte serves as a Contract Specialist within the Contract Administration Services Division (70RCAS) of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Procurement Operations. In this role, she manages the full lifecycle of professional, scientific, and technical service acquisitions critical to national security operations, with a focus on ensuring operational readiness and systems integrity. Her responsibilities include developing solicitation documents, conducting source selection evaluations, negotiating contract terms, and ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations. She primarily handles complex procurements in custom software development and facility support services, aligning acquisitions with DHS’s mission to strengthen cybersecurity, engineering systems, and mission-critical infrastructure. Claudia collaborates with a diverse range of vendors, including established federal contractors and niche technology service providers, to secure high-integrity solutions for DHS systems. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, her contracting patterns reflect a preference for qualified firms with proven experience in secure software development and facility management. She fosters transparent, performance-based vendor relationships grounded in rigorous evaluation criteria and post-award oversight to ensure deliverables meet stringent security and operational standards. Claudia’s procurement activity is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of her awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic agency focus on maximizing technical capability and efficiency rather than socioeconomic preferences, though she remains compliant with all federal small business reporting requirements. Her approach prioritizes merit-based selection, ensuring the best-qualified offerors are awarded based on technical merit, past performance, and cost realism. Her primary procurement focus is split between NAICS 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services) and NAICS 812930 (Parking Lots and Garages). The former underscores her expertise in securing secure, mission-specific software solutions, including systems engineering, application development, and cybersecurity integration. The latter indicates her involvement in facility infrastructure support services essential to DHS operational sites. Together, these domains reflect a unique blend of technical and logistical procurement expertise critical to sustaining DHS’s physical and digital infrastructure.