Shanna Guillen

Shanna Guillen serves as a key procurement professional within the Defense Health Agency, supporting the agency’s mission to deliver seamless, readiness-focused healthcare services to uniformed personnel, retirees, and their families. She manages a portfolio of acquisitions centered on operational medical support, clinical infrastructure, and health system modernization, with a strong emphasis on contracting for specialized healthcare technologies and services. Her work ensures that DHA’s global medical footprint is equipped with reliable, secure, and compliant solutions aligned with DoD health standards. Guillen maintains consistent partnerships with a select group of contractors including Dependable On-Site Scan & Shred, Inc., Hanith Bioscience, LLC, Livion Technology, LLC, I-2-I Solutions, Inc., and Draeger Inc. These vendors provide critical services ranging from medical device maintenance and bioscience supply chain support to secure data handling and clinical workflow automation. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for specialized, niche providers with proven technical capabilities in military healthcare environments, fostering long-term, performance-based vendor relationships. She exhibits a strict and comprehensive commitment to small business participation, directing 100% of her acquisitions toward total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to empower small, agile vendors capable of delivering tailored solutions within the complex regulatory and operational constraints of defense medicine. Her contracting approach prioritizes socioeconomic inclusion without compromising mission-critical performance standards. Despite the Defense Health Agency’s focus on advanced medical systems, Guillen’s procurement activity is exclusively classified under NAICS 721110—Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels. This unusual alignment suggests her contracts may support temporary lodging, transient housing, or facility-based accommodations for deployed medical teams, military families receiving care, or personnel undergoing extended treatment, highlighting a critical but often overlooked enabler of operational readiness and patient support within the DHA ecosystem.