Meg Romero

Meg Romero serves as Recycling & Litter Control Superintendent for the DPW Facilities - Environmental Resources unit of Charles County Government, where she leads the strategic procurement of waste management and environmental stewardship services. In this primary contracting role, she oversees acquisitions aligned with the agency’s mission to safeguard public health and ecological integrity through sustainable solid waste handling, materials recovery, and litter prevention programs. Her procurement portfolio centers on operational contracts for curbside collection, transfer station operations, and materials recovery facility services, ensuring compliance with state environmental standards and community cleanliness benchmarks. She is the principal decision-maker for solicitation development, vendor evaluation, and contract administration within her domain. Romero works with a network of licensed waste haulers, environmental service providers, and materials processing firms that meet stringent state and local regulatory requirements. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages vendors with proven experience in municipal solid waste operations, recycling infrastructure maintenance, and public litter abatement programs. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for performance-based agreements with measurable outcomes, emphasizing reliability, safety compliance, and environmental accountability over cost alone. Romero’s contracting approach reflects a strong commitment to open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued as no set-aside procurements. She prioritizes technical capability and operational readiness over socioeconomic classifications, ensuring that all qualified firms—regardless of size or certification—are evaluated on merit. While small business participation is not formally incentivized through set-asides, she maintains an inclusive evaluation process that allows capable small and medium enterprises to compete on equal footing. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 562111 (Solid Waste Collection) and 562920 (Materials Recovery Facilities), reflecting deep expertise in waste stream management and recycling system operations. She procures specialized equipment, fleet services, sorting technologies, and labor-intensive collection contracts designed to maximize diversion rates and minimize landfill dependency, demonstrating technical fluency in municipal waste lifecycle management.