Karen E. Monahan

Karen E. Monahan serves as a Contracting Officer for Navfacsyscom Washington (N40080), a key component of the Department of the Navy responsible for delivering mission-critical facility infrastructure and support services across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. In this role, she manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions for facilities-related contracts, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while advancing the agency’s strategic goals of operational readiness, energy resilience, and sustainable infrastructure. Her portfolio primarily encompasses services supporting facility operations, including security, janitorial, landscaping, hazardous waste management, and integrated facilities support, all critical to sustaining naval installations. Monahan maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of prime contractors, including Clark Construction Group LLC, Summer Consultants, Inc., BKM Prime AE SB JV, LLC, and Indian Township Sanchez Group, LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for experienced firms capable of delivering complex, integrated services under performance-based contracting frameworks. Her approach emphasizes collaboration with vendors who demonstrate technical proficiency, past performance in federal facilities environments, and capacity to meet stringent DoN compliance and sustainability requirements. She demonstrates a strong commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with 60% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5 and 40% competitively awarded to 8(a) firms. This pattern underscores her dedication to expanding opportunities for small disadvantaged businesses and fostering long-term vendor development within the defense support sector. Her procurement focus is concentrated in five key NAICS categories: 562112 (hazardous waste collection), 561612 (security and patrol services), 561720 (janitorial services), 561730 (landscaping services), and 561210 (facilities support services). Monahan’s expertise lies in managing service-based contracts that ensure the safe, efficient, and environmentally compliant operation of naval facilities, with an emphasis on performance metrics, lifecycle cost efficiency, and mission-critical continuity.