Diane Coulson

Diane Coulson serves as a Contract Specialist within the Defense Health Agency (HT9406), where she plays a pivotal role in executing procurement strategies that support the agency’s mission to deliver seamless, readiness-focused healthcare services to uniformed personnel, retirees, and their families. She manages the full lifecycle of acquisitions for direct health and medical insurance carriers, ensuring compliance with federal contracting regulations and aligning contractual obligations with DOD’s clinical and operational priorities. Her portfolio centers on contracts that enable secure health data infrastructure, pharmaceutical supply chain resilience, and integrated clinical support services critical to maintaining force health protection across global operations. Coulson maintains consistent working relationships with key contractors including Dependable On-Site Scan & Shred, Inc., Hanith Bioscience, LLC, Livion Technology, LLC, I-2-I Solutions, Inc., and Draeger, Inc. These partnerships reflect a focus on specialized medical support, biosecurity, technology-enabled health monitoring, and clinical equipment services. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, resulting in long-term vendor engagements grounded in quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and mission-critical service delivery. Coulson’s contracting activity is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her approach ensures rigorous evaluation of vendor capability, technical merit, and operational readiness—reflecting the DHA’s emphasis on mission assurance over socioeconomic targeting. Her primary procurement focus is NAICS 524114 (Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers), indicating deep expertise in acquiring managed care services, health plan administration, and integrated medical benefits delivery systems. She procures services that support population health management, claims processing, provider network coordination, and secure health information exchange—all essential to sustaining the DHA’s enterprise-wide healthcare delivery model.