Narissa Charles

Narissa Charles serves as a Contract Specialist, where she plays a key role in the agency's procurement mission by managing various acquisition processes. Her responsibilities involve facilitating the procurement lifecycle to ensure the effective acquisition of goods and services necessary to support agency operations. The agency's procurement landscape shows a significant emphasis on small business engagement. The office demonstrates a commitment to socioeconomic contracting through a diverse set-aside strategy, which includes a notable utilization of Total Small Business Set-Asides and competitive 8(a) awards. While a portion of the agency's requirements are processed without set-asides, there is a clear pattern of leveraging small business programs to meet federal procurement objectives. The agency's technical procurement focus is heavily concentrated in the information technology sector. Primary areas of specialization include custom computer programming, various computer-related services, and computing infrastructure, including data processing and web hosting. Additionally, the agency procures specialized services in biotechnology research and development, as well as computer hardware and software through merchant wholesalers.