Sandra Stargardt-Licis

Sandy E. Licis serves as a Contracting Officer within the Cincinnati Acquisition Division of the Environmental Protection Agency, where she manages the acquisition of technical and scientific services critical to environmental monitoring, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance. Her portfolio centers on procuring high-precision analytical instrumentation, environmental consulting, and applied research services that support the Agency’s mission of evidence-based environmental decision-making. Licis oversees the full lifecycle of complex procurements, from market research and solicitation development to contract award and performance oversight, ensuring alignment with federal acquisition regulations and EPA’s scientific integrity standards. She maintains strong, ongoing relationships with key contractors including Pegasus Technical Services, Inc., Biospyder Technologies, Inc., Boh Environmental, L.L.C., Omega Painting & Contracting LLC, and Verina Consulting Group LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on specialized technical providers delivering environmental analysis, laboratory support, and site remediation services. Licis fosters collaborative vendor engagement, emphasizing performance-based contracting and clear deliverable requirements to ensure technical rigor and regulatory alignment. While the majority of her acquisitions—88.9%—are conducted without set-asides, she consistently supports small business participation through Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) set-asides, accounting for 11.1% of her awards. This reflects a deliberate, though selective, commitment to socioeconomic programs that align with mission-critical capabilities and qualified vendor capacity. Her procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) and 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services), each representing one-third of her portfolio, with additional emphasis on engineering services (541330) and management consulting (541611). She specializes in acquiring expert-driven environmental assessments, field sampling protocols, data analysis frameworks, and technical support for EPA’s regulatory and enforcement programs, demonstrating deep domain expertise in environmental science and compliance-driven contracting.