Yvette Dluhos

Yvette Dluhos serves as a key procurement professional within the Defense Health Agency, supporting the delivery of mission-critical healthcare services to uniformed personnel, retirees, and their families. She manages a diverse portfolio of non-clinical support contracts essential to maintaining operational readiness across the global DOD healthcare infrastructure. Her acquisitions focus on facility services, technology enablement, and logistics support, ensuring that clinical environments remain functional, secure, and efficient. Dluhos works closely with contracting teams to align procurements with strategic priorities such as modernized clinical workflows and resilient supply chains, often leveraging flexible acquisition vehicles to meet urgent operational needs. She maintains established relationships with a select group of contractors including Dependable On-Site Scan & Shred, Inc., Hanith Bioscience, LLC, Livion Technology, LLC, I-2-I Solutions, Inc., and Draeger Inc., reflecting a consistent preference for specialized vendors capable of delivering secure document management, biomedical technology support, and IT services tailored to defense healthcare environments. Her contracting patterns indicate a reliance on vendors with proven experience in regulated settings, emphasizing compliance, data integrity, and rapid response capabilities. Dluhos demonstrates a strong commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with approximately two-thirds of her awards structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This pattern underscores a deliberate strategy to foster small business participation across multiple categories, enabling agile, innovative solutions from firms with niche expertise. Her procurement approach actively promotes equitable access to DHA contracts while maintaining high standards for service delivery. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 722310 (Food Service Contractors), 561720 (Janitorial Services), and 541519 (Other Computer Related Services), reflecting a balanced emphasis on facility operations, environmental hygiene, and IT support systems. These categories are critical to sustaining safe, clean, and technologically enabled healthcare environments across military treatment facilities worldwide.