Jessica Ballard-Culp

Jessica Ballard-Culp serves as a Realty Specialist at the National Operations Center within the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, where she manages real property acquisition, leasing, and facility support contracts critical to sustaining federal land management operations. Her role centers on securing nonresidential space and infrastructure to support field operations, administrative functions, and public access initiatives across public lands. She executes procurements under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) with a focus on lease agreements, long-term facility utilization, and property management services that align with the agency’s mission of environmental stewardship and operational readiness. Her acquisitions directly enable mission-critical activities including resource monitoring, visitor services, and compliance enforcement. Ballard-Culp maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of contractors specializing in real property services, including Boh Environmental, L.L.C., DJ&A, P.C., Kiewit Infrastructure West Co., Wasatch West Contracting LLC, and Alvin K. Spears. These partnerships are primarily transactional and performance-driven, focused on lease administration, facility maintenance, site assessments, and infrastructure coordination. Her procurement approach emphasizes reliability, regulatory compliance, and long-term operational continuity, often relying on repeat engagements with vendors who demonstrate proven expertise in federal land-based realty needs. Her contracting activity is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. She does not utilize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, reflecting a procurement strategy prioritizing technical capability and facility-specific expertise over socioeconomic criteria. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 531120—Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings (except Miniwarehouses)—indicating a specialization in leasing commercial and institutional facilities to support federal operations. She procures turnkey space solutions, including utilities, maintenance, security, and property management services tailored to remote and rural federal sites, demonstrating deep domain expertise in federal real property logistics and land-use compliance.