Margaret Hollins

Margaret Hollins serves as a key procurement lead within the W071 Endist Seattle office of the Department of the Army, responsible for managing civil infrastructure and construction contracts critical to military installation resilience across the Pacific Northwest. Her role centers on executing full lifecycle acquisitions for heavy civil engineering projects, including facility construction, hydraulic infrastructure upgrades, and environmental remediation efforts that directly support Army readiness. She oversees complex contracting actions under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, ensuring compliance with national security standards and mission-critical timelines for base modernization initiatives. Hollins maintains long-standing partnerships with a select group of prime contractors specializing in federal construction and marine repair, including RDC JPA Architecture, FinCantieri Marine Repair LLC, Walsh Federal LLC, Absher Construction Co., and Big River Construction Inc. These relationships reflect a preference for experienced, vertically integrated firms capable of delivering large-scale, multi-disciplinary projects under stringent military specifications. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, with a focus on proven technical capabilities and past performance in federal civil works. Hollins’s contracting portfolio reflects no set-aside preferences, with 100% of awards issued as full and open competitions. This indicates a strategic emphasis on selecting the most qualified vendors regardless of socioeconomic status, prioritizing technical merit and mission alignment over programmatic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally incentivized through targeted set-asides, her team maintains transparency and competition to ensure best-value outcomes. Her primary procurement focus is under NAICS 531120—Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings (except Miniwarehouses)—indicating a specialized domain in the acquisition of facility leasing, land use rights, and infrastructure-enabled real property services. This underscores her expertise in managing non-traditional construction contracting models, including long-term lease-purchase agreements and public-private partnerships that enable sustainable installation modernization without direct capital outlay.