Elaine Pace-Reed

Elaine Pace-Reed serves as a key procurement lead within the Defense Health Agency, overseeing strategic acquisitions that support the agency’s mission to deliver seamless, readiness-focused healthcare services to uniformed personnel, retirees, and their families. She manages a portfolio centered on administrative management consulting and computer systems design services, ensuring that clinical workflows, health data infrastructure, and operational support systems are modernized and compliant with DoD standards. Her acquisitions directly enable the integration of secure, scalable solutions across the global DOD health enterprise, with a focus on enhancing efficiency, interoperability, and clinical quality assurance. Pace-Reed maintains consistent partnerships with a select group of contractors, including Dependable On-Site Scan & Shred, Inc., Hanith Bioscience, LLC, Livion Technology, LLC, I-2-I Solutions, Inc., and Draeger Inc. These relationships reflect a preference for specialized vendors capable of delivering high-integrity administrative support, bioscience logistics, medical technology integration, and clinical systems design. Her contracting patterns indicate a focus on firms with proven expertise in defense-compliant operations, data security, and mission-critical service delivery, often engaging vendors with prior DoD experience and demonstrated performance. Her procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition, indicating a priority on technical capability and mission alignment over socioeconomic preferences. This reflects a strategic emphasis on acquiring the most qualified providers regardless of business size or certification, aligning with the DHA’s operational urgency and need for proven, scalable solutions. Her primary NAICS focus is 541611 for administrative and general management consulting services, underscoring her role in optimizing healthcare operations, policy implementation, and process improvement across DHA facilities. The secondary focus on 541512 for computer systems design highlights her involvement in modernizing digital health platforms, EHR integrations, and secure data infrastructure. Her expertise lies at the intersection of healthcare administration and mission-critical IT systems, ensuring that DHA’s clinical and logistical functions remain agile, secure, and ready.