Walter Love

Walter Love serves as the primary procurement lead for the W074 Endist Jacksonville, a U.S. Army Civil Works unit under the Department of Defense responsible for civil infrastructure and environmental stewardship across Florida’s waterways. He manages the acquisition of complex civil engineering projects essential to military readiness, including dredging, shoreline protection, flood control, and ecosystem restoration. His procurement portfolio centers on heavy civil construction and environmental remediation, ensuring compliance with federal engineering standards and environmental regulations. Love oversees the full lifecycle of contract solicitation, evaluation, and award, aligning acquisitions with the agency’s mission to sustain navigational channels and coastal resilience. He maintains long-standing relationships with leading civil engineering contractors including FINCANTIERI MARINE REPAIR LLC, GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO, LLC, WEEKS MARINE, INC., MANSON CONSTRUCTION CO, and MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for firms with proven expertise in hydraulic structures, marine construction, and large-scale earthmoving operations. Love consistently engages contractors with specialized equipment and technical capabilities in coastal engineering, fostering collaborative, performance-based contract execution through fixed-price and cost-reimbursement mechanisms. His contracting approach prioritizes open competition, with 83.3% of acquisitions issued without set-asides, reflecting the scale and technical complexity of projects requiring established industry capacity. Nevertheless, he maintains a consistent 16.7% allocation to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a measured commitment to small business participation without compromising mission-critical performance requirements. The majority of his procurements fall under NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction), with secondary focus on commercial building (236220) and limited electronic manufacturing (334111). His technical domain expertise lies in marine infrastructure, sediment management, and coastal resilience systems, ensuring acquisitions support both military operational needs and environmental compliance under the Army Corps of Engineers’ civil works mandate.