Philip Bouffard

Philip Bouffard serves as a key procurement lead within the 255-NETWORK Contract Office 15 (36C255) of the Department of Veterans Affairs, overseeing the acquisition of critical healthcare infrastructure and medical equipment essential to veteran care delivery. His responsibilities include managing the full lifecycle of contracts for clinical facility modernization, surgical and diagnostic instrumentation, and electromedical system integration. He ensures procurement activities align with VA’s strategic imperative to maintain operational readiness across medical facilities, with a focus on compliance, technical specificity, and mission-critical delivery timelines. His portfolio consistently includes complex, high-stakes acquisitions requiring coordination between clinical stakeholders, engineering teams, and federal regulatory bodies. Bouffard maintains established relationships with a core group of contractors specializing in medical facility construction, equipment installation, and technical support services, including JETT’S SPECIALTY CONTRACTING, LLC, MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC, HIGHLANDS DEVELOPMENT LLC, RISE COMPANIES, LLC, and MEDICONE MEDICAL RESPONSE OF TENNESSEE, INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in VA-specific compliance, rapid deployment of medical infrastructure, and field service capabilities. His contracting patterns emphasize reliability, technical competency, and past performance over price alone, fostering long-term vendor engagement within the VA’s specialized ecosystem. His procurement strategy prioritizes open competition, with 71.4% of awards issued without set-aside designations, yet he maintains a deliberate commitment to small business participation, consistently awarding contracts to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (18.4%) and total small business set-asides (10.2%). This reflects a balanced approach that upholds socioeconomic goals without compromising mission-critical performance requirements. Bouffard’s technical focus centers on NAICS codes 238290 (Other Building Equipment Contractors), 339112 (Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing), 334510 (Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing), and 332510 (Hardware Manufacturing). He routinely procures surgical tables, diagnostic imaging components, electromedical devices, and facility-integrated medical hardware, demonstrating deep familiarity with FDA-regulated medical equipment standards and federal construction specifications for healthcare environments.