Tarik Booze

Tarik Booze serves as a key procurement lead within the W2SD Endist Norfolk office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, supporting the Department of the Army’s mission to sustain and modernize critical military infrastructure across the Eastern United States. He manages a diverse portfolio of construction and engineering acquisitions, primarily focused on commercial and institutional building projects, highway and bridge infrastructure, and related facility support services. His work directly enables operational readiness by ensuring timely delivery of resilient, mission-critical facilities, including military housing and administrative complexes. Booze exercises full contracting authority under FAR Part 36, overseeing solicitation, evaluation, award, and administration of complex construction contracts requiring rigorous technical and compliance oversight. Booze maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of established contractors, including Clark Construction Group LLC, Sawyer Services Inc, Vanar Eastern JV1, LLC, and Ritz Construction Inc. These partnerships reflect a preference for experienced, high-performing firms with proven track records in military construction environments. His procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, risk mitigation, and strict adherence to safety and quality standards, fostering long-term vendor collaboration grounded in reliability and compliance with DoD construction specifications. His contracting patterns reveal a strong commitment to small business participation, with 27.3% of awards structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, while the majority of procurements remain open to all competitors. Though no specific socioeconomic set-asides (e.g., 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB) dominate, the consistent use of small business set-asides demonstrates a deliberate effort to expand opportunities for qualified small contractors in the defense construction sector. Booze’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), accounting for 70% of activity, followed by 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) at 20%. He also manages specialized acquisitions under NAICS 511210, indicating involvement in mapping and surveying services critical to infrastructure planning. His technical expertise centers on military facility modernization, earthwork, structural systems, and utility integration, ensuring projects meet Army Corps of Engineers design standards and lifecycle resilience requirements.