Esther Edinborough

Esther Edinborough serves as a Contracting Officer for Navfacsyscom Mid-Atlantic, where she is responsible for managing the full lifecycle of procurement actions supporting critical infrastructure projects across Navy and Marine Corps installations in the Mid-Atlantic region. Her role centers on ensuring mission-critical facility modernization, environmental compliance, and operational readiness through the acquisition of engineering, construction, and testing services. She specializes in complex, multi-year contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, with a focus on design-build, construction management, and technical services that align with the Department of the Navy’s infrastructure resilience goals. Edinborough maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of experienced contractors, including RYAN CONSTRUCTION CO INC, WEEKS-CASHMAN JV, APPLEDORE MARINE - CH2M JV, W. M. JORDAN COMPANY, INCORPORATED, and MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for firms with proven expertise in naval base construction, marine infrastructure, and facility sustainment. Her contracting approach emphasizes collaboration with vendors possessing deep technical knowledge in civil works, utilities modernization, and environmental remediation, fostering long-term vendor engagement grounded in performance accountability and regulatory compliance. A defining feature of Edinborough’s procurement strategy is her exclusive use of Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, reflecting an unwavering commitment to socioeconomic contracting. All of her acquisitions are reserved for small businesses, ensuring equitable access to federal opportunities and strengthening the regional small business ecosystem. This pattern underscores her dedication to fostering competition and capacity-building among small contractors capable of delivering high-complexity infrastructure services. Her technical focus is singularly aligned with NAICS 541380 (Testing Laboratories and Services), indicating a specialization in procurement of environmental testing, materials analysis, geotechnical investigations, and compliance monitoring services essential to infrastructure integrity and regulatory adherence. She routinely awards contracts for laboratory certification, soil and water sampling, and hazardous material assessment, demonstrating advanced expertise in technical service acquisition within the defense infrastructure domain.