Teresa Knotts

Teresa T. Knotts serves as a key procurement professional within the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), supporting the agency’s mission to deliver secure, compliant, and efficient financial management services across the Department of Defense. She manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions focused on operational support services essential to sustaining DFAS’s mission-critical infrastructure. Her work centers on contract execution for non-defense-specific services that enable administrative readiness, including facility maintenance, data reporting systems, and professional support functions, ensuring alignment with federal acquisition regulations and audit readiness objectives. Knotts maintains established working relationships with a range of vendors, including Soderberg Company Inc., Ecology Mir Group LLC, Bloomberg Industry Group, Inc., and Roche Diagnostics Corporation, reflecting a mix of specialized service providers in administrative support, data analytics, and facility operations. Her contracting patterns suggest a preference for established contractors with proven capacity in delivering scalable, compliant solutions, often involving long-term service agreements and performance-based contracting structures. Her procurement activity shows a strong emphasis on small business participation, with nearly 39% of awards designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, indicating a deliberate strategy to foster competition and economic inclusion. While no other socioeconomic set-asides (e.g., 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB) dominate, her consistent use of small business set-asides underscores a commitment to broadening vendor diversity within DFAS’s support services ecosystem. Her primary NAICS focus includes Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers (713940), Landscaping Services (561730), and All Other Support Services (561990), revealing a procurement profile centered on facility and environmental support, administrative logistics, and ancillary operational services. These categories reflect her role in procuring non-core but mission-enabling services that sustain DFAS’s physical and administrative environments, ensuring uninterrupted financial operations across its nationwide footprint.