Lyska Benitez

Lyska Benitez serves as a Building Services Specialist at the PBS R1 Administration Support Center-NH, part of the General Services Administration’s Public Buildings Service. In this role, she supports the acquisition and management of construction and renovation services essential to maintaining federal facilities across the Northeast. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, and administering contracts for building systems upgrades, structural repairs, and facility modernization projects, ensuring compliance with federal construction standards and sustainability goals. She plays a critical role in translating agency infrastructure needs into actionable procurement strategies that uphold safety, functionality, and historic preservation mandates. Benitez collaborates closely with a diverse network of contractors specializing in commercial and institutional construction, framing, electrical, and painting services. While specific vendor relationships are not publicly enumerated, her procurement patterns indicate consistent engagement with small, locally based firms capable of delivering skilled labor and specialized trades on complex federal sites. Her working relationships are characterized by a preference for responsive, certified small businesses with proven experience in federal facility maintenance and renovation, fostering long-term partnerships built on reliability and regulatory compliance. Her contracting approach is heavily aligned with small business participation, with 96% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, reflecting a strong institutional commitment to socioeconomic inclusion. The remaining 4% are designated for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, demonstrating targeted support for veteran entrepreneurs. This pattern underscores a deliberate strategy to maximize opportunities for small, disadvantaged, and veteran-owned firms in the federal construction ecosystem. Benitez’s primary technical focus lies in NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), with significant activity in framing (238130), electrical installation (238210), and painting (238320). She specializes in procuring turnkey construction services for federal buildings requiring structural integrity, code-compliant systems, and preservation-sensitive renovations, demonstrating deep expertise in the lifecycle management of federal infrastructure assets.