Shari Windt

Shari Windt serves as a key procurement lead within the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Service, supporting the agency’s mission to deliver culturally competent, community-based health services to American Indian and Alaska Native populations across the Southwest. She manages a focused portfolio of acquisitions centered on professional and management development training, ensuring that tribal health workforce initiatives align with federal standards and tribal sovereignty principles. Her work directly enables capacity building among clinical, administrative, and behavioral health staff through targeted training programs, curriculum development, and competency-based learning systems, reinforcing the agency’s strategic priorities in workforce modernization and service delivery innovation. Windt maintains consistent contracting relationships with a select group of specialized vendors, including DT-TRAK CONSULTING, INC., NATIVEARC II, LLC, NATIVEVET MATERIEL, LLC, BADGER HEALTH & ASSOCIATES LLC, and MONTECH INC. These contractors provide tailored training solutions, health education platforms, and operational support services designed for tribal health contexts. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term, performance-based partnerships with firms experienced in Indigenous health systems, ensuring cultural relevance and program sustainability. Notably, Windt’s acquisition portfolio reflects a 100% non-set-aside profile, indicating a preference for open competition while still prioritizing vendors with demonstrated expertise in serving Native communities. This pattern suggests a focus on technical capability and programmatic fit over socioeconomic classifications, though many of her contractors are naturally small businesses with tribal affiliations or cultural competency credentials. Her primary NAICS focus is 611430—Professional and Management Development Training—reflecting deep specialization in designing, procuring, and managing workforce development initiatives. She routinely acquires curriculum design, instructor-led and virtual training delivery, competency assessment tools, and continuing education systems tailored to tribal health providers, demonstrating expertise in human capital development within federally recognized health programs.