Shamekia Underwood

Shamekia Underwood serves as a Contract Specialist with the W074 Endist Mobile unit under the Department of the Army’s W91278 agency, where she manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions supporting critical military infrastructure resilience. Her responsibilities include soliciting, evaluating, and awarding contracts for construction, engineering, and environmental remediation services essential to maintaining and modernizing defense installations. She specializes in complex, high-stakes acquisitions involving commercial and institutional building construction, heavy civil works, and integrated environmental services, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and mission-critical timelines. Underwood maintains consistent, long-term relationships with key contractors including ARELI, INC., THE ROBINS & MORTON GROUP, J & J MAINTENANCE INC, ROYCE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, LLC, and VALIANT CONSTRUCTION LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for established, experienced firms capable of delivering large-scale, technically demanding projects across diverse geographic locations. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, rigorous contractor evaluation, and structured contract administration to ensure quality, safety, and regulatory adherence. Her procurement portfolio shows a 100% preference for open, unrestricted competitions with no set-asides designated for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic categories. This reflects a strategic focus on maximizing competition among fully qualified prime contractors rather than leveraging socioeconomic programs, aligning with the agency’s priority for mission-critical delivery over socioeconomic targeting. Despite the agency’s infrastructure mission, Underwood’s acquisitions are exclusively categorized under NAICS 621511 (Medical Laboratories), indicating a specialized and potentially misaligned classification in the system. Her work involves procuring laboratory services and related technical support—likely for environmental testing, hazardous material analysis, or biological monitoring tied to military site remediation—demonstrating deep technical expertise in regulatory-compliant environmental health and safety contracting within the defense sector.