Evelyn Pearson

Evelyn Pearson serves as a Contract Specialist at the Federal Correctional Institution at Bennettsville, within the Bureau of Prisons under the Department of Justice. She is responsible for managing the full lifecycle of food and nutrition-related acquisitions, ensuring compliance with federal dietary, religious, and health standards for incarcerated populations. Her work directly supports the agency’s mission to provide safe, humane, and nutritionally adequate subsistence through rigorously regulated supply chains. Pearson specializes in procuring perishable and processed food systems, including fluid milk, meat, poultry, and prepared foods, with a focus on maintaining consistent, culturally appropriate, and federally compliant deliveries across extended care cycles. She maintains enduring relationships with key vendors including Portland Foods Inc., Shaver Foods LLC, North Star Imports, LLC, and JNS Foods LLC—established suppliers with proven capacity to meet stringent federal food safety and delivery requirements. Her contracting approach emphasizes reliability, scalability, and adherence to USDA and FDA regulations, fostering long-term partnerships with vendors capable of sustaining high-volume, just-in-time deliveries under strict operational constraints. Pearson demonstrates a strong commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with 82.8% of her acquisitions set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5. She consistently prioritizes small business participation across all categories, ensuring equitable access for disadvantaged entrepreneurs while maintaining supply chain integrity. Her procurement patterns reflect a deliberate alignment with federal small business goals, particularly for firms certified under HUBZone and other small business programs. Her technical expertise centers on NAICS codes 311511 (fluid milk manufacturing), 311612 (meat processing), 311211 (flour milling), 311991 (perishable prepared food manufacturing), and 311615 (poultry processing). She specializes in sourcing raw and minimally processed food commodities that meet Bureau of Prisons nutritional specifications, demonstrating deep familiarity with food safety protocols, cold chain logistics, and religious dietary accommodations in federal institutional settings.