Ilene J. Crapps

Mrs. Ilene J. Crapps serves as a Contracting Officer within the U.S. Army’s W074 Endist Jacksonville, under the Department of the Army’s W912EP organization, where she manages complex civil infrastructure acquisitions critical to military readiness and environmental resilience across Florida’s waterways. Her procurement portfolio centers on heavy civil engineering projects including dredging, shoreline stabilization, flood control systems, and ecosystem restoration, all aligned with the Army Corps of Engineers’ mission to sustain navigable waterways and protect coastal infrastructure. She oversees full lifecycle contract actions—from solicitation and source selection to award and administration—ensuring compliance with federal regulations and technical standards for hydraulic and civil works. Mrs. Crapps maintains longstanding partnerships with industry leaders in marine and civil construction, including FINCANTIERI MARINE REPAIR LLC, GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO, LLC, WEEKS MARINE, INC., MANSON CONSTRUCTION CO, and MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC. These relationships reflect a preference for experienced, technically capable contractors with proven expertise in heavy civil engineering, marine operations, and environmental remediation. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, rigorous technical evaluation, and long-term operational reliability over short-term cost savings. Her set-aside preferences are heavily weighted toward open competition, with 85.7% of awards issued without set-aside, while 10.7% are designated for total small business set-asides and 3.6% reserved for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. This pattern indicates a strategic balance between leveraging large-scale industry capacity and ensuring meaningful small business participation where feasible, consistent with FAR 19.5 guidelines. Her procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 237990—Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction—reflecting deep technical expertise in large-scale infrastructure projects involving dredging equipment, cofferdams, hydraulic structures, and ecological restoration techniques. She procures services requiring specialized marine construction capabilities, environmental permitting compliance, and adherence to federal engineering standards for water resource development.