Lauren Bossingham

Lauren Bossingham serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Coast Guard’s SFLC Procurement Branch 1 (70Z080), where she manages acquisitions critical to sustaining and modernizing the Coast Guard’s fleet of cutters and maritime assets. Her work centers on shipbuilding, repair, and maintenance contracts that ensure operational readiness for coastal, offshore, and open-ocean missions. She oversees the full lifecycle of complex naval procurement actions, from solicitation through contract award and administration, with a focus on dry dock overhauls, propulsion system upgrades, and structural refits. Her role is integral to executing the Coast Guard’s long-term vessel modernization strategy under Department of Homeland Security directives. Bossingham maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of specialized maritime contractors, including Fairbanks Morse, LLC, Bay Ship & Yacht Co, Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, L.L.C., Automatic Coating Limited USA, and Technico Corporation. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in naval vessel repair, marine coating systems, and propulsion component integration. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term vendor collaboration, technical compliance, and performance-based outcomes, often leveraging firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursement structures tailored to shipyard capabilities. Her procurement portfolio reflects a balanced commitment to socioeconomic goals, with approximately half of her awards set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5 and the other half awarded as full and open competitions. This pattern underscores a strategic effort to maintain a robust industrial base while ensuring competitive pricing and technical innovation. She actively supports small business participation without compromising mission-critical requirements. The entirety of her acquisition activity is concentrated under NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), demonstrating deep specialization in naval architecture, hull fabrication, marine systems integration, and corrosion control. She procures services ranging from dry dock maintenance to advanced propulsion retrofits, requiring stringent adherence to naval engineering standards and Coast Guard-specific operational specifications.