Jessica Busman

Jessica Busman serves as a key procurement professional within the Great Plains Regional Office of the Bureau of Reclamation, overseeing the acquisition of critical water infrastructure and civil engineering services. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts aligned with the agency’s mission to modernize water conveyance systems, hydropower facilities, and related public works across arid and semi-arid regions. Her responsibilities include soliciting, evaluating, and awarding contracts for construction, engineering design, and heavy equipment leasing, ensuring compliance with federal procurement regulations and technical standards for water resource development. She plays a central role in translating operational needs into legally sound, mission-driven acquisition strategies. Busman maintains a primary working relationship with McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC, a trusted contractor for water and sewer line construction and site development tasks. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for established, experienced firms capable of delivering complex civil infrastructure projects under tight regulatory and environmental constraints. While she engages a limited number of vendors, her partnerships are characterized by long-term reliability, technical proficiency, and consistent performance on high-stakes public works projects. Her procurement approach is overwhelmingly non-set-aside, with 92.3% of awards issued under full and open competition, reflecting the specialized nature of the work and the limited pool of qualified contractors. However, she consistently allocates 7.7% of awards to Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a measured but intentional commitment to small business participation without compromising project integrity or schedule demands. Her technical focus centers on NAICS 237110 (Water and Sewer Line Construction), followed by 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction) and 541330 (Engineering Services). She routinely procures services related to dam and canal rehabilitation, pipeline installation, hydraulic modeling, and heavy machinery leasing for large-scale infrastructure projects, requiring deep domain expertise in water resource engineering and federal construction standards.