Courtney Cronin

Courtney Cronin serves as a procurement professional within the CDC Office of Acquisition Services, supporting the agency’s mission to safeguard public health through strategic acquisition of scientific, technical, and operational capabilities. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts focused on enabling laboratory diagnostics, biomedical research infrastructure, and data-driven public health systems. Her work centers on securing mission-critical services that enhance disease surveillance, outbreak response, and clinical data processing, ensuring CDC’s readiness to address emerging health threats through agile and compliant procurement practices. Cronin maintains established relationships with key contractors including General Dynamics Information Technology, Cepheid, MRIGLOBAL, GlaxoSmithKline, and New York City Health & Hospitals Corp. These partnerships reflect a pattern of engagement with high-capacity providers of laboratory automation, infectious disease testing platforms, biomedical research support, and large-scale public health service delivery. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical rigor, and continuity of operations, often involving complex, multi-year task orders requiring stringent compliance with federal health and data security standards. Cronin’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with 100% of awards issued under no set-aside categories. This underscores a focus on technical capability and mission alignment over socioeconomic classifications, prioritizing the most qualified vendors regardless of size or certification status. While small business participation is not formally targeted, her portfolio remains accessible to all qualified entities through transparent, merit-based acquisition processes. Her primary NAICS focus areas include Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Computing Infrastructure Providers (518210), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920), and All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541990). She routinely procures cloud-based data analytics platforms, laboratory information systems, scientific conference management services, and specialized technical consulting supporting CDC’s epidemiological and operational missions.