Kristina Mercer

Kristina V. Mercer serves as a Contracting Officer for the Department of the Air Force’s FA4610 30 Cons Pk facility, responsible for managing procurement activities that sustain critical infrastructure at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Her portfolio focuses on mission-critical acquisitions supporting facility maintenance, utilities resilience, security systems, and specialized technical operations essential to national security space launches. She executes contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements while aligning procurements with the agency’s strategic priorities in infrastructure modernization and operational readiness. Mercer maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of contractors including MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC, DIVERSE PEST MANAGEMENT, TECH O. R., LLC, KING FREIGHT LLC, and DARBONNIER TACTICAL SUPPLY LLC. These partnerships reflect a reliance on niche service providers capable of delivering specialized environmental, logistical, and maintenance support in highly secure, mission-sensitive environments. Her procurement approach emphasizes vendor reliability, technical specificity, and responsiveness to dynamic operational demands at remote and classified sites. A strong advocate for small business participation, Mercer consistently prioritizes socioeconomic set-asides, with nearly half of her acquisitions designated as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. She actively leverages Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) set-asides, reflecting a deliberate commitment to veteran-owned enterprises. Her contracting patterns demonstrate a balanced approach to competition, combining targeted set-asides with open procurements to ensure both capability and market diversity. Her primary technical focus lies in environmental consulting services (NAICS 541620), commercial and industrial machinery repair (NAICS 811310), and building finishing and HVAC systems (NAICS 238390 and 238220), with additional activity in custom computer programming (NAICS 541511). This specialization underscores her expertise in procuring integrated facility support services that maintain the integrity of space launch infrastructure, requiring precise technical coordination across multiple disciplines.