Kristie M. Christie

Kristie M. Christie serves as a Small Business Specialist, playing a pivotal role in advancing socioeconomic contracting goals within federal acquisition processes. Her expertise centers on ensuring small businesses have equitable access to procurement opportunities, particularly in specialized manufacturing sectors. She collaborates closely with contracting officers to structure solicitations that align with small business set-aside regulations, facilitates pre-solicitation outreach, and provides guidance on eligibility and certification requirements. Her work directly supports the agency’s mission to foster competition, enhance innovation, and strengthen the small business industrial base through intentional acquisition planning. While no specific contractor relationships are documented, Christie’s role involves engaging with a broad spectrum of certified small businesses, particularly those in machine shop and precision manufacturing sectors. She works with vendors holding SBA certifications such as 8(a), HUBZone, and WOSB, though her current contracting patterns reflect a primary emphasis on unrestricted, non-set-aside procurements. Her approach prioritizes clear communication, technical compliance, and early vendor engagement to ensure solicitations are accessible and competitive for qualified small businesses. Christie’s procurement patterns show a 100% focus on non-set-aside contracts, indicating a strategic alignment with agency needs that require broad competition or specialized technical capabilities not yet widely available among certified small businesses. Despite this, her commitment to small business participation remains strong—she actively promotes awareness of socioeconomic programs and ensures that small businesses are positioned to compete effectively in open competitions through education, mentorship, and tailored acquisition planning. Her industry focus is exclusively on NAICS 332710, Machine Shops, which encompasses precision machining, CNC fabrication, tool and die work, and custom metal component manufacturing. She procures high-tolerance parts, assemblies, and specialized hardware critical to defense, aerospace, and industrial equipment systems. Christie’s technical domain expertise includes understanding manufacturing tolerances, material specifications, and quality control standards essential to this sector, enabling her to craft technically sound solicitations that attract capable small business vendors.