Tessa Wastun

Tessa Wastun serves as a Contracting Officer with primary responsibility for managing complex acquisitions in telecommunications infrastructure and specialized education services. Her role is central to ensuring the agency’s operational needs are met through compliant, efficient procurement processes that align with federal acquisition regulations. She typically handles competitive solicitations for professional services, network systems, and language training solutions, often coordinating with technical evaluators and program managers to define performance-based requirements and ensure vendor accountability. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the procurement record, Ms. Wastun engages with a broad spectrum of vendors, including both large-scale service providers and niche firms capable of delivering specialized technical and educational solutions. Her procurement approach emphasizes fair and open competition, with a documented preference for unrestricted solicitations, indicating a focus on capability-driven selection rather than socioeconomic set-asides. Ms. Wastun’s contracting patterns reflect a 100% preference for non-set-aside acquisitions, demonstrating a commitment to full and open competition as the primary mechanism for securing high-quality services. This approach suggests a prioritization of technical merit, past performance, and cost-effectiveness over socioeconomic targeting, though it does not preclude small business participation when they are competitively positioned. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 517312 (Telecommunications Resellers) and NAICS 611630 (Language Schools), indicating deep expertise in procuring telecommunications services, including managed network solutions and voice/data infrastructure, as well as customized language instruction and cultural competency training programs. She routinely sources mission-critical services that require technical precision and linguistic proficiency, underscoring her specialization in dual-domain acquisitions bridging IT infrastructure and human capital development.