Jennalyn Kent

Jennalyn Kent serves as a Small Business Specialist, where she is responsible for supporting the agency's small business goals and facilitating opportunities for small business participation in the procurement process. In this role, she acts as a critical link between the agency's acquisition mission and the small business community, ensuring that procurement activities align with socioeconomic mandates. Based on available data, the agency's procurement patterns show a heavy reliance on full and open competitions, with the vast majority of awards designated as No Set-Aside. Small business set-asides represent a very small fraction of the agency's overall contracting activity. The agency's procurement focus is diversified across several technical and industrial domains. Primary areas of activity include electronic computer manufacturing, plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning contracting, and the repair and maintenance of commercial and industrial machinery and equipment. Additionally, the agency procures services related to heavy and civil engineering construction and the manufacturing of turbine and turbine generator set units.