Samantha Barnes

Samantha Barnes serves as a secondary procurement liaison within the Special Contracting Branch A and B of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, supporting critical logistics and industrial readiness initiatives for federal operations. Her role centers on facilitating the acquisition of specialized freight transportation and supply chain logistics services essential to overseas and contingency missions. She collaborates closely with senior contracting officers to ensure seamless execution of procurement actions under the GSA’s mission to sustain end-to-end supply chain resilience, with a focus on warehousing, distribution, and industrial support services critical to national security and civilian agency operations. Barnes maintains consistent working relationships with key contractors including Communication Logic LLC, LC Industries Inc., and FSR Consulting LLC, all of which provide niche capabilities in freight arrangement, logistics coordination, and industrial support. These partnerships are characterized by long-term operational alignment rather than transactional engagements, reflecting a preference for vendors with proven expertise in complex, mission-critical transportation networks. Her procurement approach emphasizes reliability, regulatory compliance, and performance-based service delivery, often requiring contractors to demonstrate robust infrastructure for global cargo movement and contingency logistics. Barnes’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued without set-aside designations, including no use of 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic programs. This underscores a mission-driven prioritization of capability and capacity over socioeconomic criteria, ensuring that the most qualified providers—regardless of business size or certification—are selected to meet urgent operational demands. Her primary procurement activity is concentrated in NAICS 488510, Freight Transportation Arrangement, where she specializes in securing services for international cargo routing, multimodal transport coordination, and just-in-time logistics support. This domain requires deep technical familiarity with DOT, DHS, and DoD regulatory frameworks governing the movement of sensitive and time-critical materiel, positioning Barnes as a subject matter expert in strategic freight orchestration for federal contingency operations.