Vanessa Vickers

Vanessa Vickers serves as an Acquisition Specialist, where she is responsible for managing the procurement process and executing contracting actions to support her agency's mission. In this role, she handles the solicitation, evaluation, and award of contracts, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations. Regarding set-aside preferences, the procurement patterns show a primary reliance on full and open competitions, with no set-aside requirements applied to the vast majority of actions. However, there is a documented commitment to small business participation, specifically through Total Small Business Set-Asides, with additional targeted awards directed toward HUBZone, Women-Owned Small Business, and 8(a) competed programs. Her procurement activity is heavily concentrated in high-tech manufacturing and aerospace domains. She demonstrates significant technical expertise in the acquisition of aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment, as well as electronic component manufacturing and hardware manufacturing. Additionally, her focus extends to the procurement of guided missile and space vehicle propulsion units, along with specialized search, detection, navigation, and guidance instruments for aeronautical and nautical systems.