Molly O'Keefe

Molly O’Keefe serves as a key procurement lead within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ W07V Endist Vicksburg office, supporting critical civil infrastructure and military engineering missions across the Mississippi River basin. She manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions focused on flood control systems, navigation channel maintenance, levee construction, and dredging operations, ensuring alignment with national security and environmental sustainability objectives. Her work spans design-build, construction, and professional services contracts, often requiring coordination with federal, state, and local stakeholders to meet complex regulatory and engineering standards. O’Keefe maintains strong working relationships with leading engineering and construction firms including MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC, AECOM TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC., BAIRD-STANTEC JOINT VENTURE, ARCADIS U.S., INC., and LINFIELD, HUNTER & JUNIUS, INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for experienced, multi-disciplinary contractors capable of delivering large-scale civil works projects under tight operational timelines. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, integrated project delivery, and technical compliance with U.S. Army Corps engineering directives. She demonstrates a robust commitment to small business participation, with over half of her acquisitions set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5, alongside targeted opportunities for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. Her socioeconomic contracting patterns reflect a deliberate strategy to foster regional economic development and enhance contractor diversity within the civil works sector. Her primary NAICS focus includes electrical contracting, facilities support services, custom computer programming, and shipbuilding and repair, indicating a technical emphasis on infrastructure modernization, digital systems integration, and marine asset maintenance. She routinely procures specialized services in hydraulic modeling, geospatial analysis, and dredge equipment maintenance, underscoring her expertise in complex, mission-critical civil engineering procurement.