Melissa Beams

Melissa Beams-Villareal serves as a key procurement professional within the FA3016 502 Contracting Clinic of the Department of the Air Force, responsible for managing mission-critical acquisitions that sustain Air Force installation readiness. She specializes in the planning, solicitation, and award of contracts for facility infrastructure, medical support systems, and operational maintenance services, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and Air Force-specific operational requirements. Her portfolio is strategically aligned with the agency’s mission to maintain safe, technologically advanced, and mission-ready environments for personnel and equipment, with a strong emphasis on timely delivery of essential services. She maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of contractors including Perry Management Corp of South Dakota, L.L.C., William T Brooks & Associates Inc, Citadel Federal Solutions LLC, NexLegacy LLC, and AJ Commercial Services, Inc. These partnerships reflect a preference for experienced, niche providers capable of delivering specialized facility services, institutional furniture, and signage solutions under tight operational timelines. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, clear deliverables, and long-term vendor reliability over transactional engagements. Beams-Villareal demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, with 100% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to maximize economic opportunity for small, locally rooted firms and ensure broad-based contractor engagement across the socioeconomic spectrum, without reliance on large prime contractors. Her primary procurement focus centers on NAICS 238220 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors), which constitutes half of her portfolio, alongside significant activity in NAICS 337127 (Institutional Furniture Manufacturing) and NAICS 339950 (Sign Manufacturing). This specialization underscores her technical expertise in facility sustainment, environmental control systems, and installation-specific furnishings, ensuring Air Force bases remain fully operational and compliant with safety and accessibility standards.