Lisa D Goins-Berntsen

Lisa D. Goins-Berntsen serves as a key procurement professional within the Office of Acquisition Management at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, where she oversees the acquisition of technical and consulting services critical to advancing commercial motor vehicle safety oversight. Her work centers on securing expert support for data-driven safety analytics, regulatory compliance systems, and modernization of transportation information infrastructure. She manages full and open competitions under NAICS 488490, focusing on contract vehicles that deliver specialized engineering, operational analysis, and IT modernization services to enhance the Agency’s ability to monitor and improve national trucking safety standards. Her primary contractor relationship is with the National Institute for Safety Research Inc., a trusted provider of research-based safety analytics and technical consulting services. Goins-Berntsen consistently engages this vendor to support mission-critical initiatives involving data modeling, compliance monitoring systems, and safety performance evaluation tools. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term, performance-based partnerships with firms possessing deep domain expertise in transportation safety, rather than transactional procurements. She maintains a strict preference for full and open competition, with no set-asides utilized in her portfolio. This reflects a strategic focus on securing the highest-caliber technical capabilities available in the market, regardless of socioeconomic status, to meet the Agency’s urgent safety and technological modernization imperatives. Her procurement activity is exclusively concentrated in NAICS 488490—Other Support Activities for Road Transportation—reflecting a narrow, specialized focus on non-transportation services that enable regulatory enforcement and safety system development. She procures advanced analytical services, system integration, and technical advisory support tailored to FMCSA’s regulatory and data infrastructure needs, demonstrating deep expertise in the intersection of transportation policy, data science, and federal acquisition compliance.