Paula Gross

Paula Gross serves as a primary procurement contact, overseeing acquisitions and managing the contractual requirements necessary to support the agency's operational mission. Regarding set-aside preferences, the procurement patterns indicate a strong lean toward full and open competitions, with no set-aside requirements applied to 90.0% of the activity. There is a limited commitment to small business participation, with Total Small Business Set-Asides (FAR 19.5) accounting for 10.0% of the procurement focus. The industry focus for these acquisitions is diversified across several technical and industrial domains. Procurement activity is evenly distributed across construction sand and gravel mining, copper rolling and alloying, power boiler and heat exchanger manufacturing, industrial truck and trailer machinery manufacturing, and fluid power pump and motor manufacturing.