R. Ellis Screws

Robert Ellis Screws serves as a secondary contracting professional within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ W07V Endist Vicksburg office, supporting the Department of the Army’s mission to deliver civil infrastructure resilience and military engineering solutions across the Mississippi River basin. His responsibilities include facilitating the acquisition of complex civil works projects, primarily in flood control, navigation channel maintenance, and levee construction. Screws operates within a framework of federally mandated procurement protocols, ensuring compliance with FAR and DFARS while enabling timely execution of high-priority public works contracts under the Army’s civil works program. He maintains established working relationships with leading engineering and construction firms including MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC, BAIRD-STANTEC JOINT VENTURE, ARCADIS U.S., INC., SOL-MERRICK JOINT VENTURE II, LLC, and LINFIELD, HUNTER & JUNIUS, INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for joint ventures and integrated service providers capable of delivering multidisciplinary solutions in heavy civil engineering, dredging, and hydraulic structure construction. Screws consistently engages contractors with proven expertise in federal infrastructure delivery, emphasizing performance-based contracting and risk-managed project execution. Screws’ procurement portfolio reflects a strong commitment to socioeconomic diversity, with over 42% of awards designated for small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, complemented by significant participation from women-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. His contracting patterns prioritize inclusive competition, regularly incorporating HUBZone and SDVOSB set-asides to expand opportunities for underserved entrepreneurs in the civil works sector. His primary technical focus lies in NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction), underpinning the agency’s core work in levee systems, dam rehabilitation, and large-scale earthwork. He also procures related services in engineering design and surveying (NAICS 541330 and 541370), ensuring end-to-end delivery of water resource infrastructure projects that align with national security and environmental sustainability objectives.