Elizabeth Sanders

Elizabeth Sanders serves as a Contract Specialist at Naval Medical Center San Diego (N00259), where she manages the acquisition of critical electromedical, surgical, and diagnostic equipment essential to sustaining combat-ready medical forces. In this role, she executes full lifecycle contracting activities under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, ensuring compliance with DoD procurement policies while supporting the center’s mission to deliver advanced clinical care and operational medical readiness. Her portfolio primarily includes complex procurements for surgical instruments, electromedical apparatus, and specialized medical supplies, often requiring technical evaluation and coordination with clinical engineering and biomedical teams to align acquisitions with operational requirements. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the dataset, Sanders works with a diverse range of vendors, including manufacturers of precision medical devices, biomedical service providers, and custom software firms supporting clinical systems integration. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for established industrial suppliers with proven technical capability in FDA-regulated medical products, alongside a structured approach to vendor qualification and performance monitoring. Her set-aside preferences are heavily skewed toward unrestricted competitions, with 93.9% of awards issued under full and open competition, reflecting the specialized and often non-commercial nature of the equipment procured. Only 6.1% of awards are set aside for small businesses, indicating a targeted, rather than broad, small business participation strategy aligned with the technical complexity and limited vendor base in her acquisition domain. Elizabeth specializes in NAICS 339112 (Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing) and 334510 (Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing), demonstrating deep expertise in procuring Class II and III medical devices, surgical tooling, and diagnostic imaging subsystems. She frequently engages with suppliers capable of meeting military specifications, ISO 13485 certification standards, and unique Navy biomedical interoperability requirements, positioning her as a key liaison between clinical needs and industrial capability.