Sheila I. Borges

Sheila I. Borges serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southeast (NAVFACSE), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to deliver resilient, mission-critical infrastructure across the Southeastern U.S. and overseas operational areas. She manages the acquisition lifecycle for commercial and institutional building construction projects, ensuring alignment with federal contracting regulations and naval readiness objectives. Her portfolio primarily encompasses design-build and construction management contracts for barracks, administrative facilities, and support structures, with a strong emphasis on compliance, schedule integrity, and performance-based outcomes. Borges maintains established working relationships with leading construction contractors including BL Harbert International LLC, Walsh Federal LLC, Sauer Construction, LLC, McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC, and Kira Aviation Services LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for experienced, full-service general contractors capable of executing complex, multi-disciplinary projects under tight operational timelines. Her procurement approach emphasizes contractor reliability, past performance evaluation, and technical capability over price alone, fostering long-term vendor engagement grounded in quality and accountability. Her contracting activity reflects a strong orientation toward open competition, with 77.8% of awards issued without set-aside restrictions, while maintaining a consistent 22.2% commitment to Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This balance demonstrates a strategic focus on leveraging small business innovation without compromising project scale or mission urgency. While no specific socioeconomic set-asides (e.g., 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB) dominate her portfolio, her small business participation aligns with broader NAVFAC goals to expand vendor diversity within the construction sector. Borges’s technical expertise centers on NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), which accounts for nearly 90% of her acquisitions, with secondary focus on highway and bridge construction under NAICS 237310. She specializes in procuring turnkey construction services, site development, utilities integration, and facility modernization—ensuring naval installations meet current building codes, sustainability standards, and operational resilience requirements.