Tamara A. Jones

Tamara A. Jones serves as a key procurement professional within the W2SD Endist Baltimore office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, overseeing the acquisition of critical engineering services to support military infrastructure readiness. She manages a specialized portfolio of contracts focused on civil engineering, facility modernization, and environmental remediation projects across federal installations. Her role is central to executing the agency’s mission of sustaining and enhancing military and civilian infrastructure through compliant, mission-driven contracting practices. Jones handles complex, high-stakes acquisitions under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, ensuring technical precision, regulatory adherence, and timely delivery of services essential to operational continuity. Jones maintains longstanding relationships with a select group of prime contractors, including GRUNLEY CONSTRUCTION CO., INC., GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO, LLC, MATTHEWS GROUP INC, CURTIN MARITIME CORP, and CHEROENHAKA NOTTOWAY ENTERPRISES, LLC. These partnerships reflect a balanced reliance on both large, experienced firms with deep technical capacity and small, culturally significant entities with specialized capabilities in environmental restoration and maritime infrastructure. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, rigorous quality control, and long-term vendor reliability, fostering collaborative, trust-based relationships built on consistent delivery and regulatory compliance. Her procurement strategy reflects an even split between open competition and Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a deliberate and sustained commitment to socioeconomic inclusion. While no other set-aside categories dominate, her consistent use of small business set-asides underscores a strategic effort to expand opportunities for small, disadvantaged, and historically underrepresented firms in the engineering services sector. Jones’s entire acquisition portfolio is concentrated under NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), reflecting her deep specialization in civil, environmental, and structural engineering solutions. She procures services including site design, geotechnical analysis, water resource management, and infrastructure rehabilitation, requiring advanced technical expertise and strict adherence to Army Corps of Engineers standards and environmental regulations. Her domain expertise ensures that all contracts align with federal engineering best practices and mission-critical infrastructure requirements.