Ramona Criddell

Ramona Criddell serves as a key procurement lead within the Department of the Air Force’s FA2860 316 Cons Pk facility at Joint Base Andrews, where she manages acquisitions critical to sustaining mission-critical infrastructure and operational readiness. Her responsibilities center on securing integrated security systems, communications hardware, and facility maintenance services that support command, control, and communications (C3) capabilities essential to air operations. She oversees the full lifecycle of contracting actions—from solicitation to award and administration—ensuring alignment with Air Force standards for reliability, interoperability, and force protection. Her portfolio is narrowly focused on specialized industrial goods and services that directly enable base resilience and mission continuity. Criddell maintains consistent working relationships with a small, specialized cohort of contractors, including ZERO WASTE SOLUTIONS, INC, SENECA MINERAL COMPANY, and PELICAN CHEMICALS INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with niche expertise in industrial-grade materials, hazardous material handling, and facility-specific environmental compliance solutions. Her contracting approach emphasizes reliability, regulatory adherence, and long-term serviceability, often favoring vendors with proven track records in military and federal facility environments. She demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, directing 100% of her acquisitions under the Total Small Business Set-Aside authority (FAR 19.5). This pattern underscores a deliberate strategy to empower small, non-traditional suppliers with the capacity to deliver specialized industrial products and services tailored to defense infrastructure needs, reinforcing socioeconomic equity and supply chain diversity within the DoD procurement ecosystem. Her primary procurement focus is concentrated under NAICS 332216—Saw Blade and Handtool Manufacturing—indicating a specialized demand for precision hand tools, cutting implements, and maintenance equipment used in facility upkeep and emergency response operations. This technical specialization reveals deep domain expertise in industrial maintenance supply chains, where durability, precision, and compatibility with military-grade infrastructure are non-negotiable requirements.