Mona A Shaw

Mona A. Shaw serves as the R&D Infrastructure Lead within the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress Fedlink, where she oversees the acquisition of critical infrastructure and support services essential to modernizing federal library systems. Her role centers on enabling the secure, scalable, and interoperable delivery of digital research resources to federal agencies nationwide. She manages the procurement lifecycle for specialized printing and production support systems, ensuring compliance with federal standards for cataloging, preservation, and access to authoritative information. Her acquisitions directly support the Library’s mission to sustain a robust, equitable information infrastructure for federal research communities. Shaw collaborates with a network of specialized vendors providing high-volume, precision printing and document production services, primarily through long-term, performance-based contracts. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages firms with proven expertise in federal compliance, quality control, and secure handling of sensitive bibliographic materials. Her contracting approach emphasizes reliability, scalability, and adherence to Library of Congress technical specifications, fostering partnerships grounded in operational continuity rather than transactional transactions. Shaw’s procurement activity reflects a strict preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued without set-aside designations. This underscores a strategic focus on technical capability and operational readiness over socioeconomic categorization, prioritizing the highest quality and most efficient service delivery for mission-critical infrastructure. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, vendors of all sizes must meet stringent performance and compliance benchmarks to be considered. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 323120 (Support Activities for Printing), encompassing high-volume offset and digital printing, binding, cataloging media production, and specialized document finishing. She specializes in acquiring services that support the preservation, distribution, and accessibility of federal research outputs, including bound periodicals, non-print media, and digitized archival materials. Her technical expertise lies in the intersection of bibliographic systems and physical/digital production workflows, ensuring alignment with national standards for federal information infrastructure.