lakisha Holston

Lakisha Holston serves as a key procurement lead within the Support Services Section (SS40) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, operating under the Department of Homeland Security. She is responsible for managing the acquisition of specialized consulting and facility support services critical to sustaining FEMA’s operational readiness during national emergencies. Her role centers on ensuring seamless administrative and logistical infrastructure through strategic contracting, with a primary focus on architectural and design services that enable mission-critical facility modernization and emergency response planning. Holston’s acquisitions directly support FEMA’s ability to maintain resilient infrastructure and coordinate response capabilities across federal, state, and local partners. While specific contractor names are not publicly disclosed, Holston consistently engages with a dynamic pool of qualified vendors, particularly small businesses certified under federal socioeconomic programs. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term vendor partnerships built on compliance, performance reliability, and responsiveness to rapidly evolving emergency support needs. She fosters collaborative relationships with firms capable of delivering high-quality architectural services under tight timelines, often requiring specialized expertise in federal facility standards and disaster-resilient design. Holston maintains a 100% Small Business Set-Aside preference across all solicitations, fully aligning with FAR 19.5 and prioritizing participation from small businesses, including 8(a), HUBZone, and Women-Owned Small Business concerns. This unwavering commitment reflects a strategic effort to expand economic opportunity while ensuring a diverse, agile vendor base capable of scaling support during crisis response. Her contracting patterns consistently channel opportunities to small firms with proven capacity in federal facility support services. Her procurement focus is exclusively on NAICS 541310—Architectural Services—encompassing design, planning, and technical consulting for federal facilities, emergency operations centers, and temporary response infrastructure. She procures services related to space planning, building code compliance, sustainable design, and resilience engineering, demonstrating deep technical expertise in federal facility standards and emergency infrastructure requirements.