Jessica Ertel

Jessica Ertel serves as a key procurement professional within the DCSO Richmond Division #1, supporting the Department of Defense’s mission to sustain and modernize critical defense infrastructure. She manages acquisitions centered on hazardous waste treatment and disposal, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations and operational readiness across military facilities. Her responsibilities include soliciting, evaluating, and awarding contracts for the safe remediation of contaminated sites, handling regulated substances, and implementing long-term environmental stewardship solutions. Ertel’s work directly enables the agency’s strategic priorities in facility integrity, hazardous material mitigation, and mission-critical environmental compliance. Ertel maintains a primary working relationship with XSB INC, a trusted contractor with demonstrated expertise in hazardous waste handling and disposal operations. Her procurement patterns reflect a consistent reliance on this vendor for technical execution, suggesting a mature, performance-based partnership built on reliability and regulatory adherence. While other vendors may be engaged for specific tasks, XSB INC remains the dominant contractor across her portfolio, indicating a preference for established capability over broad competition in high-compliance environments. Ertel’s contracting activity shows no use of socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a mission-driven prioritization of technical capability and regulatory compliance over socioeconomic preferences, consistent with the specialized nature of hazardous waste remediation. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, the absence of set-asides does not imply exclusion—it signals a focus on contractor readiness for high-risk, high-stakes environmental operations. Her primary procurement focus is NAICS 562211 (Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal), encompassing the collection, treatment, storage, and disposal of military-generated hazardous materials including solvents, heavy metals, and chemical byproducts. Ertel’s expertise lies in procuring services that meet EPA and DoD environmental standards, ensuring safe, lawful, and technically sound operations in sensitive defense infrastructure environments.