Debbie Woods

Debbie Woods serves as a Small Business Specialist, playing a critical role in advancing equitable access to federal procurement opportunities for small businesses. In this capacity, she advises contracting teams on socioeconomic program compliance, ensures alignment with small business goals, and facilitates outreach to qualified vendors. Her work is integral to the agency’s mission of fostering inclusive competition and maximizing small business participation across all acquisition phases. She typically handles professional services and site preparation contracts, guiding the development of solicitation language that encourages broad small business engagement while maintaining rigorous technical and performance standards. While specific contractor relationships are not publicly enumerated, Debbie Woods collaborates extensively with a diverse array of small business vendors, particularly those certified under socioeconomic programs. Her engagement model emphasizes early vendor outreach, pre-solicitation meetings, and mentor-protégé coordination to build capacity among emerging small businesses. She fosters long-term partnerships with firms capable of delivering high-quality technical and construction support services, ensuring that procurement strategies are both competitive and inclusive. Debbie Woods demonstrates a strong commitment to small business participation, with 100% of her acquisitions designated as non-set-aside, reflecting a strategic emphasis on open competition while still actively promoting small business inclusion through subcontracting goals and small business set-asides at the task order level. Her approach prioritizes ensuring that small businesses are well-positioned to compete on equal footing, even within unrestricted solicitations, by leveraging programmatic tools like the Small Business Subcontracting Plan and the SBA’s 8(a) Business Development Program as complementary pathways. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and NAICS 238910 (Site Preparation Contractors), indicating deep expertise in technical consulting, engineering support, and land development services. She routinely procures services such as environmental assessments, site clearing, grading, and utility coordination, requiring contractors with specialized technical capabilities and compliance knowledge in federal construction and professional services standards.