Nerissa Sanchez

Nerissa Sanchez serves as a Contract Specialist at the Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (N55236), a key operational unit within the Department of the Navy responsible for sustaining naval vessel readiness through industrial support and shipyard modernization. In this role, she manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions for critical maintenance, repair, and industrial infrastructure contracts, ensuring alignment with naval engineering requirements and federal acquisition regulations. Her portfolio primarily encompasses shipbuilding and repair services, with a focus on complex, mission-critical contracts that support fleet availability and long-term naval operational readiness. Sanchez maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of specialized contractors, including W.V. Construction Company, Turn Key Scaffolding LLC, Premier Scaffolding, Inc., Fairbanks Morse, LLC, and The Sherwin-Williams Company. These partnerships reflect a reliance on firms with proven expertise in marine industrial services, corrosion protection, heavy equipment maintenance, and scaffold systems essential to dry-dock and shipyard operations. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical compliance, and vendor reliability in high-safety, high-regulation environments. A strong advocate for small business participation, Sanchez consistently prioritizes Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, which account for nearly 70% of her awards, alongside targeted Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-asides. Her procurement patterns reflect a deliberate commitment to socioeconomic goals, ensuring equitable access for qualified small businesses in the defense industrial base while maintaining rigorous performance standards. Her primary procurement focus lies within NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), representing over 75% of her activity, with supplementary needs in machine shops, rolled steel manufacturing, and industrial equipment leasing. This specialization underscores her technical fluency in naval maintenance ecosystems, where she procures precision-engineered components, protective coatings, and specialized fabrication services critical to sustaining the Navy’s surface fleet.