Stephanie Auld

Stephanie R. Auld serves as a procurement professional responsible for managing complex acquisitions in technology and engineering domains, aligning with federal requirements for efficiency, innovation, and compliance. Her work centers on soliciting and awarding contracts for hardware, research services, and specialized electronic systems, ensuring alignment with statutory procurement frameworks. She plays a critical role in translating agency technical needs into solicitation language, evaluating proposals under FAR Part 15, and overseeing contract performance to meet mission-critical objectives. Her acquisitions typically involve high-precision instrumentation, computing infrastructure, and applied R&D services supporting national technical priorities. Her contractor relationships are broad-based, with no single vendor dominating her portfolio, reflecting a deliberate strategy to maintain competition and avoid over-reliance on any one supplier. She engages with a diverse mix of large prime contractors and small businesses across the electronics manufacturing and scientific research sectors, fostering collaborative vendor partnerships grounded in performance-based contracting and clear deliverable specifications. Her approach emphasizes transparency, competitive bidding, and rigorous source selection under full and open competition principles. Auld’s contracting patterns show a strong preference for full and open competition, with 95.2% of awards issued without set-aside restrictions. Only 4.8% of her awards are structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, indicating a measured, rather than mandated, approach to socioeconomic contracting. While she does not prioritize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her limited use of small business set-asides reflects a focus on technical capability over socioeconomic criteria, consistent with mission-driven acquisition needs. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 511210 (software publishing) and 541715 (physical and engineering R&D), with significant activity in computer storage and electronic manufacturing (334111, 334112). She routinely acquires custom-developed software, data acquisition systems, and precision measurement devices, demonstrating deep expertise in procurement for advanced electronics and scientific instrumentation. Her domain knowledge spans embedded systems, data processing hardware, and applied research services critical to technical infrastructure modernization.