Laventris Holmes

Laventris Holmes serves as a Contract Specialist at the Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (N55236), a key facility within the Department of the Navy responsible for sustaining naval vessel readiness through industrial maintenance and repair. In this role, Holmes manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions for critical shipbuilding, repair, and industrial infrastructure contracts, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and naval engineering standards. Their work directly supports the operational availability of fleet assets by facilitating timely acquisition of specialized services and equipment essential to naval maintenance operations. Holmes maintains established working relationships with a core group of contractors including W. V. Construction Company, Turn Key Scaffolding LLC, Premier Scaffolding, Inc., Fairbanks Morse, LLC, and The Sherwin-Williams Company. These partnerships reflect a consistent focus on vendors with proven expertise in shipyard support, industrial coating systems, and heavy fabrication. The contracting approach emphasizes reliability, technical capability, and past performance, fostering long-term vendor collaboration to meet mission-critical deadlines and quality benchmarks. While the majority of acquisitions are conducted under open competition, Holmes consistently allocates approximately one-third of contracts as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a deliberate commitment to small business participation. There is no current emphasis on 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, but the pattern reflects a strategic balance between broad market access and targeted small business engagement to enhance competition and innovation. The procurement portfolio is heavily concentrated in three NAICS categories: 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), 332322 (Sheet Metal Work Manufacturing), and 238220 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors). This reflects deep technical expertise in naval industrial support, including structural fabrication, corrosion protection systems, and mechanical systems integration essential to shipyard sustainment operations.