Fredrick "Fred" Simmons

Fredrick Simmons serves as a procurement specialist within the Defense Logistics Agency’s Energy division (SPE605), responsible for managing critical energy supply contracts that sustain global military operations. He oversees the acquisition of petroleum-based fuels, natural gas, and associated logistics infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted fuel availability for all U.S. armed forces. His work is central to DLA Energy’s mission of maintaining resilient, secure, and responsive energy supply chains under dynamic operational demands. Simmons typically handles complex, performance-based contracts requiring strict compliance with Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) requirements, often involving international logistics, fuel storage, and distribution networks. His primary contractor relationships are centered on Qatar Fuel (WOQOD) and United Capital Investments Group, both of which provide specialized fuel procurement, transportation, and storage services in strategic regions. These partnerships reflect a reliance on established international energy vendors with proven capabilities in high-volume, mission-critical fuel delivery under austere conditions. Simmons maintains long-term, performance-driven relationships with these contractors, emphasizing reliability, regulatory compliance, and operational continuity over competitive bidding cycles. Simmons’s procurement portfolio reflects a 100% preference for non-set-aside acquisitions, indicating a focus on open competition to ensure maximum capability and global scalability. There is no documented use of 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic set-asides in his award patterns, suggesting a prioritization of operational readiness and vendor capacity over socioeconomic contracting objectives. His procurement activity is exclusively classified under NAICS 513120 (Periodical Publishers), which appears to be a misclassification or administrative anomaly in the system. This discrepancy suggests either a data entry error or an unusual contractual mechanism—such as the use of publishing contracts for fuel logistics reporting or operational documentation—rather than a true focus on periodical content. Further clarification is warranted to align this classification with actual procurement intent.