Kristina Hartman

Kristina Hartman serves as a primary procurement lead for the U.S. Census Bureau within the Department of Commerce, overseeing the acquisition of mission-critical data infrastructure and analytical services essential to modernizing the decennial census and ongoing survey operations. Her role centers on managing complex contracts that support digital data collection, geospatial analysis, and scalable computing systems, ensuring the Bureau meets its statutory obligations for accuracy, timeliness, and public trust. She typically handles performance-based, task-order acquisitions under indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) vehicles and other competitive procurement mechanisms aligned with federal modernization priorities. Hartman collaborates with a diverse ecosystem of technology vendors and research firms, primarily engaging systems integrators, data analytics providers, and digital service contractors with proven expertise in secure, large-scale data environments. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, her working relationships reflect a preference for firms capable of delivering agile, cloud-enabled solutions with robust cybersecurity controls and compliance with federal data governance standards. She fosters collaborative, outcome-driven partnerships that emphasize innovation, scalability, and interoperability across federal data systems. Her contracting patterns show a strong preference for open competition, with 88.9% of awards issued without set-aside restrictions, reflecting the technical complexity and scale of required capabilities. However, she consistently allocates 11.1% of opportunities to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a deliberate commitment to small business participation without compromising technical rigor or mission outcomes. Hartman’s procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services), 541910 (Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling), and 518210 (Computing Infrastructure Providers). She procures end-to-end solutions including survey platform development, real-time data processing systems, web-hosted data collection tools, and statistical modeling services—all tailored to support the Bureau’s transition to a fully digital, cloud-native data ecosystem for the 2030 Decennial Census.