Mrs. Tricia Hutcherson

Patricia J. Hutcherson serves as a Contracting Officer for the Department of the Army’s 0409 Aq Hq Contract, where she manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions critical to sustaining military garrison operations across the U.S. and overseas installations. Her responsibilities include soliciting, awarding, and administering contracts for facility maintenance, infrastructure modernization, and mission-critical services that ensure operational readiness. She specializes in procurements supporting airfields, utilities, housing, and logistics infrastructure, with a focus on delivering resilient, mission-aligned solutions in austere and deployed environments. Hutcherson’s work directly supports the Army’s mission to maintain functional, safe, and efficient living and operational environments for service members and their families. She maintains longstanding relationships with key contractors including PAE Applied Technologies LLC and BSH HUISHUDAPPARATEN B.V., reflecting a balanced approach to vendor engagement that combines large-capacity service providers with specialized international suppliers. Her contracting patterns emphasize performance-based outcomes, long-term service delivery, and technical compliance in facility operations and equipment servicing. These partnerships are typically structured under indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) and requirements-based contracts, ensuring responsive, scalable support across dynamic operational theaters. Hutcherson exhibits a strong commitment to small business participation, with approximately half of her acquisitions structured as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to foster competition and economic opportunity among small businesses, while maintaining operational reliability through a dual-track approach that also includes full and open competition. Her socioeconomic contracting practices align with Department of Defense goals to broaden the defense industrial base and enhance resilience through diversified vendor networks. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 722310 (Food Service Contractors), where she manages dining and galley operations for military communities, alongside NAICS 518210 (Computing Infrastructure Providers) and NAICS 541990 (Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services). This technical domain expertise spans IT infrastructure, data center support, facility management consulting, and mission-critical technical services essential to sustaining modern military installations.