Narcissa Best

Narcissa Best serves as a procurement specialist responsible for managing complex acquisitions of specialized industrial instrumentation and control systems. Her role centers on ensuring the agency’s technical requirements for measurement, detection, and process control equipment are met through compliant, efficient contracting practices. She routinely handles competitive sealed bidding and negotiated procurements under FAR Part 15, with a focus on high-precision devices used in industrial, aerospace, and defense applications. Her work directly supports mission-critical operations requiring reliable, calibrated systems that meet stringent performance and environmental standards. Her contractor relationships are broad but concentrated among manufacturers of industrial sensors, control panels, and integrated monitoring systems. She engages with both large prime contractors and niche suppliers capable of meeting technical specifications for precision instrumentation, often requiring ISO 9001 certification and ITAR/EAR compliance. While no single vendor dominates her portfolio, she consistently partners with firms possessing deep engineering expertise in calibration, signal processing, and ruggedized electronics design, fostering long-term supplier relationships built on technical reliability and delivery consistency. Narcissa maintains a strong preference for unrestricted competition, with 82% of her awards issued without set-asides, reflecting a focus on technical capability over socioeconomic classification. However, she actively supports small business participation, allocating 17.5% of her awards to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, and a small but consistent portion—0.5%—to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, demonstrating balanced compliance with federal socioeconomic goals while prioritizing mission needs. Her procurement focus is heavily concentrated in NAICS 334513 and 334519, reflecting deep expertise in manufacturing and procuring industrial process measurement and control devices, including transducers, analyzers, and automated control instrumentation. She also regularly acquires related systems under NAICS 334511 for navigation and guidance instruments and 334290 for specialized communications hardware. Her domain expertise lies in electro-mechanical systems requiring high accuracy, environmental resilience, and integration with legacy industrial networks.