Ronda Taggart

Ronda Taggart serves as a key procurement professional within the 11th Contracting Squadron, FA7060, under the Department of the Air Force, where she supports mission-enabling acquisitions critical to sustaining Air Force bands, ceremonial operations, and base infrastructure. Her responsibilities include managing the full lifecycle of contracts for facilities support services and quality-of-life enhancements that directly contribute to troop morale and public engagement. Taggart specializes in non-defense, mission-sustaining procurements, often involving specialized equipment and services that maintain the operational readiness of non-combat units, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning with Air Force strategic priorities in community support and infrastructure resilience. She maintains consistent working relationships with a focused set of contractors, including Boh Environmental, L.L.C., ADVANTOR SYSTEMS CORPORATION, and LORTON STONE, LLC, each providing niche capabilities in environmental services, systems integration, and hardscape infrastructure. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in delivering tailored, low-volume, high-impact solutions rather than large-scale defense contracts. Taggart’s procurement approach emphasizes reliability, responsiveness, and technical alignment with the unique operational environments of Air Force bases, fostering long-term vendor collaboration grounded in performance and compliance. Taggart demonstrates a strong commitment to small business participation, with 66.7% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This pattern underscores a deliberate strategy to empower small, locally based firms capable of delivering specialized services with agility. Her contracting practices reflect a deliberate socioeconomic focus, prioritizing small businesses without reliance on 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB-specific set-asides, indicating a preference for broad-based small business inclusion across diverse industries. Her primary procurement focus centers on NAICS 561790 (Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings) and 811192 (Car Washes), reflecting an unconventional but mission-critical specialization in facility maintenance and sanitation services essential to base operations. This unique blend of expertise enables her to secure services that ensure daily functionality and aesthetic standards across Air Force installations, demonstrating deep technical familiarity with non-traditional defense contracting domains.