Daniel Gillespie

Daniel Gillespie serves as a key procurement lead within W071 Endist Omaha, operating under the Department of the Army, where he manages the acquisition of critical infrastructure support services essential to military readiness and strategic deterrence. His responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of site preparation contracts, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning procurements with the Army’s modernization priorities for hardened facilities, utility corridors, and base-enabling infrastructure. Gillespie specializes in sole-source and competitive small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, consistently driving acquisitions that support the physical resilience of defense installations across the continental United States. He maintains longstanding relationships with a core group of specialized contractors including JOHN BOWMAN, INC., PAF ELECTRICAL, INC., HENDRICKSON TRANSPORTATION LLC, PERINI MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC., and WASHINGTON EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for firms with proven expertise in heavy civil site work, earthmoving, grading, and utility integration. Gillespie’s contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, requiring contractors to demonstrate technical capability in complex terrain and mission-critical environments, fostering a reliable, high-integrity vendor ecosystem. Gillespie’s procurement portfolio is entirely structured as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, reflecting an unwavering commitment to socioeconomic contracting goals. He consistently awards contracts to small businesses with demonstrated capacity in site preparation, prioritizing firms that are small, veteran-owned, or located in underserved communities. This pattern reinforces the Army’s mandate to expand economic opportunity while ensuring mission-critical work is executed by agile, responsive vendors. His technical focus is exclusively on NAICS 238910 — Site Preparation Contractors — encompassing excavation, grading, drainage, erosion control, and site clearing for military infrastructure projects. Gillespie’s expertise lies in procuring services that enable the foundational readiness of nuclear deterrence facilities, training ranges, and logistical hubs, requiring deep understanding of geotechnical constraints, environmental compliance, and DoD construction standards.