Tera Adams

Tera Adams serves as a key procurement professional within the Rural Housing Service, supporting the agency’s mission to expand safe, affordable housing in rural America through strategic real estate acquisitions. Responsible for managing lease agreements and facility-related contracts, Adams ensures the agency maintains a distributed operational footprint by securing nonresidential office space across underserved regions. Her work directly enables field staff to deliver critical housing assistance, loan servicing, and community outreach programs, aligning procurement activities with the agency’s commitment to localized service delivery and operational continuity. Adams maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of specialized real estate and mortgage services contractors, including MORTGAGE CONTRACTING SERVICES LLC, DAWSON’S REALTY & MORTGAGES, INC., and FALCON CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with deep expertise in rural property leasing, mortgage-backed facility management, and long-term lease structuring. Her contracting patterns emphasize stability and reliability, favoring contractors with proven experience in navigating the unique logistical and regulatory challenges of rural property acquisition and maintenance. While the majority of her acquisitions fall under the “No Set-Aside” category at 90%, Adams consistently reserves 10% of opportunities for Local Area Set-Asides under FAR 26.2, prioritizing businesses located within the service regions they support. This approach reinforces community-based economic development and ensures contracting decisions reflect the geographic specificity of rural housing needs, demonstrating a thoughtful balance between efficiency and localized socioeconomic engagement. Her procurement portfolio is exclusively focused on NAICS 531120—Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings (except Miniwarehouses)—reflecting a narrow, highly specialized domain expertise in commercial real estate leasing. She procures only leased office and administrative spaces tailored to the operational needs of rural field offices, ensuring facilities meet federal standards for accessibility, security, and functionality while remaining cost-effective and geographically accessible to rural populations.