Colleen C. Pritchard

Colleen C. Pritchard serves as the Transportation Branch Chief Procurement, where she oversees procurement operations within the transportation sector. In this leadership capacity, she is responsible for managing the acquisition lifecycle and ensuring that procurement activities align with the agency's logistical and transportation requirements. Her role involves directing the strategic sourcing of services and equipment essential to the agency's mission-critical transportation functions. The agency demonstrates a specific procurement pattern regarding socioeconomic goals, with a notable emphasis on full and open competition. While the majority of the agency's requirements are processed without set-asides, there is a consistent utilization of Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5 protocols, accounting for a portion of their total contracting activity. The agency's procurement focus is heavily concentrated in the transportation and logistics domain. A significant majority of their acquisitions fall under NAICS 485410, specifically targeting school and employee bus transportation services. Additionally, the agency procures passenger car leasing services and maintains requirements for wireless communications equipment manufacturing. Their technical procurement scope also extends into educational support services and computing infrastructure, including data processing and web hosting services.