Kara A. Holwick

Kara A. Holwick serves as a key procurement professional within Navfacsyscom Mid-Atlantic, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to deliver resilient, mission-critical infrastructure across Navy and Marine Corps installations in the Mid-Atlantic region. She manages a diverse portfolio of construction and remediation contracts, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while advancing operational readiness through timely delivery of facilities and utilities. Her acquisitions focus on capital improvement projects, base sustainment, and environmental compliance, requiring coordination with engineering, environmental, and logistics stakeholders to align contracting outcomes with strategic infrastructure goals. Holwick maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of experienced contractors, including RYAN CONSTRUCTION CO INC, WEEKS-CASHMAN JV, APPLEDORE MARINE - CH2M JV, W. M. JORDAN COMPANY, INCORPORATED, and MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for firms with proven expertise in complex military construction, marine infrastructure, and integrated design-build delivery methods. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, risk mitigation, and contractor accountability in high-stakes environments where schedule adherence and safety standards are paramount. Her procurement patterns demonstrate a strong commitment to small business participation, with 66.7% of awards structured as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, reflecting a deliberate strategy to foster economic opportunity and enhance competition. An additional 8.3% of contracts are designated as HUBZone set-asides, underscoring her focus on geographic and socioeconomic diversity in vendor selection. She actively leverages socioeconomic programs to build a robust, resilient small business supply chain aligned with DoD objectives. Holwick’s technical expertise centers on NAICS 236210 (Industrial Building Construction) and 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), with significant activity in remediation services (NAICS 562910) and specialty trades including electrical and HVAC systems. Her portfolio reflects deep domain knowledge in military-specific construction standards, hazardous material abatement, and utility modernization, ensuring infrastructure meets both operational and environmental compliance requirements.