Susan

Susan serves as a Contract Specialist within the W2SD Endist Philadelphia office under the Department of the Army, where she manages complex civil infrastructure and maritime engineering acquisitions critical to national defense readiness. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, awarding, and administering contracts for large-scale construction, dredging, and environmental remediation projects that sustain military installations, coastal defenses, and navigable waterways. Susan plays a pivotal role in executing the agency’s mission to enhance resilience of critical infrastructure through technically demanding, high-stakes procurements governed by FAR and DFARS regulations. She routinely handles sealed bidding and negotiated contracts under NAICS codes tied to heavy civil engineering and institutional construction, ensuring compliance with federal procurement standards while aligning with strategic Army engineering priorities. Susan maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of experienced contractors, including Boh Environmental, L.L.C., CONRAD SHIPYARD, L.L.C., HDR ARCHITECTURE, INC., BUCHART HORN INC, and NORFOLK DREDGING COMPANY. These partnerships reflect a preference for firms with proven expertise in marine construction, environmental remediation, and large-scale civil engineering design-build services. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical rigor, and contractor reliability, often leveraging long-standing relationships with vendors who have demonstrated capacity to deliver complex, multi-year projects under stringent regulatory and environmental constraints. Susan’s contracting portfolio reflects a strong emphasis on open competition, with 81.8% of awards issued without set-asides, indicating a focus on full and open procurement under FAR 6.102. However, she consistently supports small business participation through Total Small Business Set-Asides (18.2%), aligning with the agency’s socioeconomic goals while maintaining competitive integrity and technical quality in acquisitions. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction) and 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), with additional activity in highway, bridge, and remediation services. Susan specializes in procurements involving coastal engineering, port infrastructure, dredging operations, and institutional facility upgrades, demonstrating deep technical fluency in geotechnical, hydraulic, and environmental compliance domains essential to DoD infrastructure resilience.