Ashleigh N. Johnson

Erica Conley serves as a procurement professional responsible for managing complex acquisitions across a diverse portfolio of services and specialized technical domains. She plays a critical role in executing the agency’s contracting mission by ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning procurements with operational priorities. Her work primarily involves soliciting, evaluating, and awarding contracts for security systems, marketing consulting, event logistics, and petroleum-related manufacturing services. She leverages full and open competition as the default approach, with targeted use of small business set-asides to foster market diversity and innovation. Her contractor relationships are broad-based, with no single vendor dominating her award portfolio. She engages with a mix of large prime contractors and small businesses capable of delivering specialized technical solutions, particularly in security infrastructure and event management. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for performance-based acquisition strategies and clear statement of work development, fostering accountability and measurable outcomes across vendor engagements. While the majority of her acquisitions—approximately 90.9%—are conducted as full and open competitions, she consistently reserves 9.1% for Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a deliberate commitment to expanding opportunities for small businesses. She does not currently prioritize other socioeconomic categories such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, but her use of small business set-asides reflects a strategic intent to cultivate a competitive small business supplier base. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 561621 for security systems services, 541613 for marketing consulting, 561920 for convention and trade show organizing, and 324199 for petroleum and coal products manufacturing. This unique combination suggests expertise in both physical security infrastructure and high-touch service procurement, with a technical understanding of energy-related manufacturing processes and event logistics. Her domain knowledge spans cybersecurity-enabled physical security systems, strategic communications campaigns, and complex logistical coordination for large-scale gatherings.