Vanessa Boger-Wallace

Vanessa Boger-Wallace serves as a key procurement lead within the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where she oversees acquisitions critical to safeguarding the integrity and operational efficiency of federal nutrition assistance programs. Her work directly supports FNS’s mission to ensure equitable access to nutritious food through evidence-based program administration, focusing primarily on investigation and personal background check services essential for participant eligibility verification, fraud detection, and compliance monitoring across SNAP, WIC, and the National School Lunch Program. She manages full lifecycle contracting actions, from solicitation development to contract award and administration, ensuring alignment with federal procurement regulations and agency strategic objectives. Her contractor relationships are centered on specialized firms providing secure, compliant, and technologically robust background screening and investigative services. These vendors are typically experienced in federal compliance frameworks, data privacy standards, and large-scale beneficiary verification systems. While no specific contractors are currently dominant in her portfolio, her procurement pattern reflects a preference for vendors with proven expertise in government-contracted investigative services and a demonstrated capacity to handle sensitive, high-volume data with precision and confidentiality. Vanessa’s contracting activity shows a 100% preference for non-set-aside procurements, indicating a focus on open competition based on technical merit and operational capability rather than socioeconomic preferences. This approach prioritizes selecting the most qualified providers to meet mission-critical needs, without formal utilization of 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides. Her primary NAICS classification is 561611—Investigation and Personal Background Check Services—reflecting a narrow, specialized domain focused on vetting procedures for program participants and staff. She procures services involving criminal history checks, identity verification, database cross-referencing, and fraud risk assessment tools, demonstrating deep technical expertise in compliance-driven investigative operations within federal nutrition assistance ecosystems.