Tara Mounce

Tara Mounce serves as a key procurement professional within W6CD USAG Fort Knox, supporting the Department of the Army’s mission to manage the responsible disposition of surplus and waste materials generated by military operations. She oversees acquisitions aligned with environmental stewardship and resource recovery, ensuring compliance with federal sustainability mandates and closed-loop waste management protocols. Her procurement activities center on the systematic collection, recycling, and resale of post-consumer and scrap materials, with a focus on maximizing material recovery while minimizing landfill contributions. She manages contracts for the procurement of logistics, transportation, and processing services essential to the efficient handling of military waste streams. Tara collaborates with a network of recyclable material merchant wholesalers and environmental service providers who specialize in the handling of metal, plastic, paper, and electronic scrap. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the data, her procurement pattern reflects consistent engagement with vendors possessing the technical capacity to process and resell regulated military waste in accordance with DoD and EPA standards. Her working relationships emphasize operational reliability, regulatory compliance, and scalable logistics capabilities rather than long-term sole-source arrangements. Tara’s contracting activity shows a 100% preference for non-set-aside procurements, indicating a focus on competitive, open market sourcing rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. This reflects a mission-driven prioritization of technical capability and operational efficiency over socioeconomic targeting, though small businesses remain eligible participants under full and open competition. Her procurement portfolio is exclusively focused on NAICS 423930 — Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers — underscoring her deep specialization in the wholesale distribution and processing of recyclable commodities derived from military operations. She procures services related to material sorting, baling, transportation, and resale of scrap, demonstrating expertise in circular economy logistics within the defense supply chain.