Denise A. Bush

Denise A. Bush serves as a Contracting Officer for the W072 Endist Louisville under the Department of the Army, where she manages the acquisition of critical civil engineering and infrastructure projects essential to military readiness. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, awarding, and administering contracts for the construction, renovation, and modernization of military installations across the continental United States. She specializes in heavy civil engineering procurements, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning with the Army’s strategic priorities in resilient infrastructure, energy security, and utilities modernization. Her portfolio encompasses large-scale, complex projects requiring coordination with engineers, environmental specialists, and project managers to deliver mission-critical facilities. Denise maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of experienced prime contractors, including Thalle-Bauer LLC, HARPER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC., MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC, J. E. DUNN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, and BL HARBERT INTERNATIONAL LLC. These firms are routinely selected for their proven expertise in heavy civil construction, site development, and infrastructure rehabilitation. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, rigorous technical evaluation, and long-term vendor reliability, fostering stable, high-performing partnerships that support sustained operational readiness. Denise’s procurement portfolio reflects a 100% no set-aside preference, indicating a focus on full and open competition for large-scale infrastructure projects requiring specialized capabilities and substantial resources. While she does not routinely utilize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her contracting decisions prioritize technical merit, past performance, and capacity to execute complex civil works under stringent military standards. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 237990—Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction—encompassing military roadways, airfields, utilities, drainage systems, and energy resilience infrastructure such as microgrids and distributed power systems. She specializes in procurements requiring advanced engineering solutions, environmental compliance, and long-term maintenance planning, demonstrating deep expertise in the technical and regulatory demands of Army civil engineering programs.