Melissa Parkison

Melissa Parkison serves as the primary procurement lead for the Great Plains Regional Office of the Bureau of Reclamation, overseeing the acquisition of critical infrastructure and support services essential to the agency’s mission of managing water resource systems, hydropower facilities, and civil works in arid regions. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts spanning technical equipment, site development, and specialized manufacturing, ensuring alignment with federal water infrastructure priorities. Her role involves end-to-end acquisition planning, solicitation development, and contract administration, with a strong emphasis on technical compliance and mission-critical delivery timelines. Parkison maintains a primary contracting relationship with McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC, a trusted vendor for site preparation and infrastructure support services. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for long-term, performance-based partnerships with firms capable of delivering complex civil works and environmental compliance tasks. While McKenzie is the dominant contractor, she also engages a small cohort of specialized vendors to address niche technical needs, fostering a collaborative and accountable vendor ecosystem rooted in reliability and regulatory adherence. Her procurement strategy is heavily skewed toward small business participation, with 92% of awards structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate and sustained commitment to socioeconomic contracting goals, prioritizing small businesses across multiple categories without reliance on 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB-specific set-asides. Her approach ensures broad small business inclusion while maintaining competitive rigor and mission readiness. Parkison’s primary NAICS focus areas include Landscaping Services (561730), Battery Manufacturing (335910), and Power Boiler and Heat Exchanger Manufacturing (332410), indicating a technical portfolio centered on environmental site management, energy storage systems, and thermal control infrastructure. She also procures industrial instrumentation (334513) and air/gas compression systems (333912), demonstrating expertise in water system automation, monitoring, and mechanical support technologies essential to modernizing Bureau of Reclamation facilities.