Sharon Miner

Sharon Miner serves as a Contract Specialist within the DSC Contracting Services Division of the National Park Service, where she manages the acquisition lifecycle for critical infrastructure projects essential to preserving America’s national parks. Her work centers on procuring construction, engineering, and utility modernization services for historic structures, visitor facilities, and resilient utility systems in ecologically sensitive and remote locations. She ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning procurements with the agency’s mission to sustain and enhance the nation’s cultural and natural heritage through strategic contracting. Miner maintains consistent working relationships with leading infrastructure contractors including AECOM Technical Services, Inc., Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Inc., HDR Engineering Inc., and McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for firms with proven expertise in commercial and institutional construction, water and sewer systems, and civil engineering services. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, technical evaluation, and long-term contractor reliability over high-volume, low-complexity awards. Her set-aside preferences are overwhelmingly aligned with open competition, with 85.2% of acquisitions conducted without socioeconomic set-asides. However, she actively supports small business participation through Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5 (11.1%) and occasional HUBZone set-asides (3.7%), demonstrating a measured but intentional commitment to expanding opportunities for qualified small entities without compromising project complexity or mission-critical delivery. Miner’s procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), which accounts for over half of her portfolio, followed by 237110 (Water and Sewer Line Construction) and 541330 (Engineering Services). She specializes in acquiring turnkey construction, structural rehabilitation, and infrastructure engineering solutions tailored to the unique challenges of federal historic preservation and environmental compliance, ensuring technical rigor and regulatory adherence across all acquisitions.