Maria A McKenzie-Williams

Maria A. McKenzie-Williams serves as a Contracting Officer with the FA4814 6 Cons Pk unit under the Department of the Air Force, where she manages the acquisition of mission-critical services that sustain personnel readiness and base operations. Her portfolio centers on professional military education, communications infrastructure, and facility support across deployed and garrisoned environments. She executes full lifecycle contracting actions—from market research and solicitation to award and administration—ensuring compliance with FAR and DFARS while aligning acquisitions with strategic Air Force readiness objectives. Her work directly enables operational tempo through reliable, secure, and scalable service delivery. McKenzie-Williams maintains consistent relationships with a select group of contractors, including SUPPLYCORE LLC, CYBERPROTEX, LLC, and Liberty Communications, Inc., among others. These partnerships reflect a focus on niche service providers delivering specialized solutions in IT security, communications systems, and administrative support. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes and long-term vendor collaboration, fostering accountability and mission alignment. She frequently engages small businesses with domain-specific expertise, ensuring responsiveness and innovation in service delivery. Her procurement strategy is uniformly committed to small business participation, with 100% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate and sustained focus on empowering small business contractors, with no awards issued to large businesses. Her pattern demonstrates a strong preference for socioeconomic programs that expand opportunity within the defense contracting ecosystem, particularly those supporting service-disabled veteran-owned, women-owned, and HUBZone-certified firms. McKenzie-Williams specializes exclusively in NAICS 713940—Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers—procuring services that support physical readiness, wellness programs, and morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) infrastructure. Her acquisitions include gym equipment maintenance, fitness instruction, recreational programming, and facility operations tailored to military personnel and families. This unique focus underscores her expertise in aligning non-traditional defense services with core readiness goals, ensuring holistic support for the warfighter beyond conventional logistics and IT domains.