Lora Bynum

Lora Bynum serves as a key procurement professional within the 693JJ3 Acquisition and Grants Management unit of the Federal Highway Administration, supporting the agency’s mission to enhance the safety, resilience, and innovation of the nation’s transportation infrastructure. She manages the acquisition of technical consulting services critical to highway system design, operational analysis, and research-driven infrastructure planning. Her portfolio centers on engineering and scientific advisory contracts that inform data-informed decision-making, ensuring federal transportation projects are grounded in cutting-edge technical expertise and evidence-based methodologies. Bynum maintains consistent working relationships with high-caliber contractors including K & M Transportation Services LLC and the University of California, Los Angeles, leveraging both private-sector engineering firms and leading academic institutions to deliver specialized transportation research and operational consulting. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term, performance-based partnerships that prioritize technical rigor, deliverable quality, and alignment with FHWA’s strategic research priorities. These collaborations are typically structured as task orders under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts to ensure agility in responding to evolving infrastructure challenges. Her contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for unrestricted competition, with 100% of her acquisitions awarded without set-asides, indicating a focus on selecting the most technically qualified offerors regardless of socioeconomic status. This approach underscores a mission-driven emphasis on expertise and capability over socioeconomic targeting, while still maintaining compliance with all federal procurement regulations. Bynum’s procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 541690—Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services—encompassing transportation engineering, traffic modeling, pavement analysis, safety assessment, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) consulting. Her domain expertise lies in securing high-level technical advisory services that directly support the Federal Highway Administration’s research agenda and infrastructure modernization initiatives.