Dina Burks

Dina Burks serves as a key procurement professional within the Farm Production and Conservation Business Center’s Management Services Division, supporting the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s mission to establish and maintain physical infrastructure for field-level agricultural and conservation operations. She manages real estate-related acquisitions critical to sustaining USDA’s rural presence, ensuring that personnel have secure, accessible, and mission-ready facilities to deliver farm assistance, disaster response, and conservation services. Her procurement portfolio is exclusively focused on nonresidential leasing and facility management contracts, aligning with the agency’s need for scalable, long-term real property solutions in underserved geographic regions. Burks maintains consistent contracting relationships with a select group of specialized real estate and construction firms, including Greenwood Properties, L.L.P. and McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC, which provide property acquisition, site development, and facility management services. Her working pattern reflects a preference for established vendors with demonstrated expertise in federal real property compliance, environmental remediation, and rural infrastructure adaptation. These partnerships are typically sustained over multiple contract cycles, indicating a focus on reliability, regulatory alignment, and operational continuity rather than competitive bidding cycles. Her procurement activity shows no use of socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on technical capability and facility suitability over socioeconomic criteria, consistent with the specialized nature of real estate acquisitions requiring specific land-use and zoning expertise. The sole NAICS code dominating her portfolio is 531120—Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings—indicating a narrow, highly specialized focus on leasing existing commercial and agricultural infrastructure rather than new construction. Her expertise lies in negotiating long-term leases, managing property condition assessments, and ensuring compliance with federal real property standards, making her a critical link in the USDA’s operational readiness framework for rural service delivery.