Gerusa Furlan

Gerusa Furlan serves as a key procurement professional within the 693JJ3 Acquisition and Grants Management unit of the Federal Highway Administration, where she supports the acquisition of technical services critical to advancing national transportation infrastructure. Her responsibilities include managing the procurement lifecycle for engineering, research, and operational consulting contracts that inform highway design, safety enhancement, and system resilience. She ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning procurements with the agency’s mission of data-driven infrastructure innovation, primarily facilitating contracts for specialized transportation research and technical support services. Furlan maintains consistent working relationships with K & M Transportation Services LLC and the University of California, Los Angeles, reflecting a pattern of engagement with niche transportation consultants and academic research institutions. These partnerships are typically structured as task-order or research service agreements, emphasizing technical expertise over commodity procurement. Her approach prioritizes performance-based outcomes, often leveraging competitive sealed bidding and request for proposal mechanisms to secure high-quality, mission-critical services. Furlan’s contracting portfolio reflects a strict preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-asides for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic programs. This indicates a focus on technical capability and institutional expertise over socioeconomic targeting, consistent with the specialized nature of the services procured. Her primary procurement activity centers on NAICS 423420, Office Equipment Merchant Wholesalers, which, while seemingly incongruent with transportation infrastructure, likely reflects the classification of specialized instrumentation, monitoring devices, and data acquisition systems used in highway performance monitoring and smart infrastructure applications. This suggests deep technical familiarity with the procurement of sensor networks, traffic analytics hardware, and connected transportation systems—domains requiring precise specification development and vendor qualification.