Harold W. Hayes

Hal W. Hayes serves as a key procurement lead within Navfacsyscom Southwest, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to deliver resilient, mission-critical infrastructure across the Southwest region. He manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions focused on engineering, architectural, and environmental services essential to sustaining and modernizing naval installations. His work ensures operational readiness through the procurement of technical services that align with federal facility standards, energy efficiency goals, and environmental compliance requirements. Hayes routinely handles complex, multi-year task orders and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts requiring rigorous technical evaluation and performance-based management. Hayes maintains consistent partnerships with a core group of contractors specializing in infrastructure support, including MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC, RSI AMENTUM ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, L1 ENTERPRISES INCORPORATED, KIEWIT INFRASTRUCTURE WEST CO., and Boh Environmental, L.L.C. These relationships reflect a preference for firms with proven expertise in civil works, environmental remediation, and facility modernization. His contracting approach emphasizes performance outcomes, technical qualifications, and past performance, fostering long-term vendor collaboration grounded in compliance and mission alignment. His procurement strategy prioritizes open competition, with approximately 58.5% of awards issued without set-asides, while actively supporting socioeconomic programs through 24.4% 8(a) competed awards and 17.1% total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This balanced approach ensures broad market access while fulfilling statutory obligations to promote small business participation, particularly among 8(a) certified firms delivering specialized technical services. Hayes’s primary procurement focus lies in engineering services (NAICS 541330), followed by architectural and landscape architectural services, reflecting a technical emphasis on design, planning, and infrastructure integration. He procures mission-critical services such as site planning, utility system upgrades, environmental assessments, and facility condition assessments, demonstrating deep expertise in federal construction support domains governed by DoD and EPA standards.