Theresa A. Stevens

Theresa A. Stevens serves as a Senior Contracting Officer responsible for managing complex acquisitions across transportation and logistics sectors. In this role, she ensures full compliance with federal procurement regulations while advancing mission-critical objectives through strategic sourcing, competitive bidding, and contract administration. Her portfolio primarily encompasses air transportation services, transit systems, and commercial freight logistics, requiring deep expertise in FAR and FAR Part 12 commercial item procedures. Stevens plays a pivotal role in translating agency needs into legally sound, performance-based contracts that promote efficiency, accountability, and value. Her contractor relationships are built on a foundation of competitive, open-market engagements, with no preference for set-aside programs. She routinely interacts with nonscheduled air carriers, freight charter operators, and wholesale distributors of transportation-related equipment, fostering transparent, performance-driven vendor partnerships. Stevens prioritizes market research and fair competition, ensuring that solicitations are structured to attract qualified, capable vendors regardless of size or socioeconomic status. Theresa maintains a strong commitment to full and open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-asides for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic categories. This reflects a deliberate strategy to maximize market participation and ensure the best value through broad-based competition, rather than targeted socioeconomic preferences. Her approach aligns with agency-wide priorities emphasizing efficiency and procurement integrity over programmatic set-asides. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 481212 and 481219, which encompass nonscheduled chartered and other air transportation services, as well as 423210 for furniture wholesale distribution and 485111 for mixed-mode transit systems. She specializes in procuring air cargo charter services, passenger transport solutions, and logistics infrastructure support, demonstrating technical fluency in aviation regulations, multimodal transit operations, and commercial freight logistics. Her expertise enables her to craft precise statements of work and performance metrics tailored to highly specialized transportation domains.