Stephanie D. Curtis

Stephanie A. Curtis serves as a Contracting Officer and Team Leader within the 693JJ3 Acquisition and Grants Management unit of the Federal Highway Administration, where she oversees the procurement of technical services critical to advancing national transportation infrastructure. Her portfolio centers on engineering consulting, transportation research, and operational support contracts that enable data-driven decisions in highway design, safety enhancement, and system resilience. She leads cross-functional teams in executing full lifecycle acquisitions under FAR Part 15, ensuring compliance with federal procurement standards while aligning contract outcomes with the agency’s mission of innovation and infrastructure modernization. Curtis maintains enduring relationships with key contractors including K & M Transportation Services LLC and the University of California, Los Angeles, reflecting a blend of private-sector engineering expertise and academic research partnerships. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, requiring rigorous technical evaluations and milestone-driven deliverables. She frequently engages firms with specialized capabilities in transportation systems analysis, traffic modeling, and infrastructure lifecycle management, fostering long-term collaborations that support sustained program objectives. Her set-aside preferences are overwhelmingly non-set-aside, with 98.9% of awards issued under full and open competition. Small business participation is minimal but intentional, with traceable allocations to Total Small Business Set-Asides and Women-Owned Small Businesses, demonstrating a compliance-focused but not mission-driven socioeconomic strategy aligned with the complexity and scale of transportation technical services. Curtis’s procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 488999 (Other Support Activities for Transportation), 541611 (Management Consulting Services), and 541990 (Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), reflecting her specialization in procurement of transportation systems analysis, operational consulting, and research-driven technical services. She routinely acquires services related to traffic safety studies, infrastructure performance metrics, and policy implementation support, underscoring her deep domain expertise in transportation engineering and public infrastructure decision-making.