Peggy K Klingensmith

Peggy K. Klingensmith serves as a Contract Specialist at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA (N00183), where she plays a critical role in securing mission-critical medical equipment and supplies to support operational readiness and clinical excellence for active-duty personnel, veterans, and their families. She manages the full lifecycle of acquisitions for high-precision surgical instruments, electromedical devices, diagnostic tools, and laboratory systems, ensuring compliance with Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements. Her work directly enables the center’s ability to maintain cutting-edge medical capabilities in trauma care, surgical innovation, and diagnostic imaging. Klingensmith cultivates strategic partnerships with a diverse base of suppliers, primarily manufacturers and authorized distributors specializing in medical technology. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages with firms holding relevant ISO and FDA certifications, ensuring procurement of FDA-cleared and CE-marked devices. Her contracting approach emphasizes vendor reliability, technical documentation compliance, and post-award performance oversight to safeguard clinical safety and equipment interoperability. Her procurement strategy reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 87.5% of acquisitions conducted without set-asides, while maintaining a deliberate 12.5% allocation to Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This balanced approach supports broad market access while ensuring small businesses—particularly those with specialized medical manufacturing expertise—have meaningful opportunities to compete. Klingensmith’s technical focus centers on NAICS 339113 (Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing) and 339112 (Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing), reflecting her deep expertise in procuring precision surgical tools, sterilization-compatible devices, and diagnostic instrumentation. She also manages acquisitions under 423430 for specialized medical computing systems and software. Her domain knowledge spans sterile processing, imaging modalities, and clinical workflow integration, making her a key liaison between clinical end-users and the defense medical supply chain.