Erika Bucior

Erika Bucior serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, Office of Acquisition and Procurement, where she facilitates mission-critical acquisitions to sustain and modernize federal research infrastructure. Her work directly supports scientific innovation by securing advanced laboratory instrumentation, precision environmental control systems, and specialized maintenance services for experimental field stations and high-throughput analytical facilities. She manages complex contracting actions that ensure operational resilience across USDA’s national research network, prioritizing technical specifications that meet rigorous scientific and safety standards for agricultural R&D environments. Bucior maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of contractors including McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC, Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, and L1 Enterprises Incorporated. These partnerships reflect a focus on firms capable of delivering turnkey solutions for facility upgrades, specialized equipment installation, and mission-critical infrastructure support. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based requirements, technical compliance, and long-term vendor reliability over transactional engagements, fostering collaborative relationships with contractors who demonstrate deep domain expertise in scientific facility operations. Her procurement patterns show no reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a mission-driven emphasis on technical capability and operational readiness over socioeconomic preferences, aligning with the ARS’s need for specialized, non-commoditized services that require niche expertise not widely available among small business pools. Bucior’s acquisitions center on NAICS categories related to scientific and technical consulting, construction of research facilities, and specialized equipment procurement. She routinely procures high-precision environmental monitoring systems, HVAC controls for controlled-environment agriculture, and laboratory-grade infrastructure upgrades. Her technical domain expertise lies in supporting data-driven agricultural science through the acquisition of mission-critical systems that enable reproducible, high-fidelity research outcomes.