Scheherezade Roundtree

Scheherezade Roundtree serves as a Contract Specialist within Navfacsyscom Far East, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain mission-critical infrastructure across the Indo-Pacific region. She manages the full lifecycle of construction, facilities support, and environmental compliance acquisitions, ensuring timely delivery of resilient base operating infrastructure for U.S. Navy and Marine Corps installations. Her portfolio emphasizes complex, multi-disciplinary contracts requiring technical coordination between engineering, environmental, and operational stakeholders, with a focus on delivering reliable utilities, building systems, and facility modernization solutions under stringent operational and regulatory standards. Roundtree maintains established working relationships with a core group of experienced contractors, including KANAGAWA NABCO PTY. LTD., MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC, PAE DESIGN AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT, and ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CORPORATION. These partnerships reflect a preference for proven performers with regional expertise in Indo-Pacific construction environments and specialized capabilities in facility operations, environmental testing, and utility system integration. Her contracting approach prioritizes performance history, technical competence, and adaptability to austere or forward-deployed conditions, fostering long-term vendor collaboration grounded in compliance and mission alignment. Her procurement patterns show a strong preference for open competition, with 69.2% of awards issued without set-asides, while 30.8% are designated under the Local Area Set-Aside provision (FAR 26.2), reflecting a strategic emphasis on regional economic engagement and workforce development in host-nation communities. While not heavily focused on traditional socioeconomic programs like 8(a) or HUBZone, she actively leverages geographic set-asides to enhance local contractor capacity and supply chain resilience. Her primary NAICS focus includes 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), 541380 (Testing Laboratories and Services), and 561210 (Facilities Support Services), underscoring her expertise in integrated facility management, environmental compliance testing, and building systems procurement. She routinely oversees acquisitions for HVAC, structural upgrades, energy resilience retrofits, and utility infrastructure, demonstrating deep technical familiarity with DoD facility standards and sustainability requirements.