JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (May 19, 2023) -- Two acquisition professionals earned installation-level recognition recently during the 65th Civilian Employee of the Year ceremony at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
The Mission and Installation Contracting Command’s Bradford Davis earned top honors in the manager category and Rana Steele bested competitors in the leader category. Three other members of MICC-Fort Campbell – Eric Boston, Shawn Myers and Relanda Young – were among the finalists nominated for annual awards.
“The Soldiers and civilians making up the 922nd Contracting Battalion and MICC-Fort Campbell represent some of the most talented acquisition professionals in the Army,” said Lt. Col. Eric Banks, commander of the 922nd Contracting Battalion and MICC-Fort Campbell. “The five civilian employees representing the contracting office at the annual recognition ceremony reflect not only the level of talent I’m fortunate to lead but also the significant team contributions to ensuring the success of our mission partners and installation readiness.”
Davis, a supervisory contract specialist, serves as chief of the MICC-Fort Campbell Mission Support Division and is responsible for the division’s day-to-day operations, which includes supervision of seven contract specialists and two team lead contracting officers. He also provides oversight of seven Soldiers by ensuring they are prepared to execute all contract actions in support of the Fort Campbell Garrison and tenant organizations.
Davis contends it would be disingenuous for him to attribute his award win to any particular achievement.
“The honor truly belongs to the super team at MICC-Fort Campbell,” he said. “During a time of true need, the office came together and continued delivering outstanding support to the Soldiers, civilians and families of Fort Campbell. It demonstrates why MICC-Fort Campbell continues to be the best contracting office in the Army.”
During the 2022 award period, Davis and his team were responsible for executing and administering vital mission essential service and supply contracting actions for their supported mission partners. In addition to maintaining his full-time duties for MICC-Fort Campbell, Davis served as the procuring contracting officer on an architect and engineering contract for MICC-Fort Bragg, North Carolina, filled the role as MICC-Fort Campbell’s acting deputy director for a 120-day period. Davis also played an instrumental role in numerous efforts throughout the year supporting readiness and operation requirements for which he was recognized. He also earned a Master of Science in Law from George Washington University in 2022.
Steele serves as a contracting officer and team lead of seven contract specialists at Fort Campbell. A 20-year veteran of the Army, she has more than 15 years of experience executing simple to complex contracts having achieved the position of warranted contracting within six years. Steele demonstrated exemplary performance during the 2022 award period supporting the directorate of public works for several critical acquisitions. She is responsible for leading, coaching and training a team of six contract specialists including new hires in the administration and award of contracts within procurement acquisition lead times.
“I’m honored and appreciative of the recognition from my leadership and Fort Campbell leaders Quote,” Steele said, crediting teamwork as the chief contributing factor. “I admire everyone assigned to the 922nd Contracting Battalion and Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Fort Campbell for their unwavering support toward each other and for their dedication to the mission.”
Having met a contracting officer review board made up of a panel of senior contracting officers and contracting attorneys, Steele successfully increased her warrant from $7 million to $100 million. She awarded task orders for two design-build renovations of outdated barracks initially constructed in the 1970s as part of the Project Volunteer Army, improving the quality of life on the installation. In total, her team awarded 22 task orders for a variety of construction related requirements ranging from architect-engineering, railroad maintenance and roof repairs to building renovations, HVAC replacements, and railroad bridge and road construction valued at $53.5 million during the award period. Steele also led her team in providing oversight of a highly complex multiple award task order contract, modifying the requirement to increase the value of the ceiling from $175 million to $275 million, allowing the award of 90 contract actions over the last six weeks of the fiscal year.
The annual ceremony allows the Fort Campbell Garrison leadership an opportunity to recognize the contributions by Army civilians on the installation in 11 different categories. Col. Andrew Jordan, garrison commander, David Roudybush, deputy to the garrison commander, and Command Sgt. Maj. Chad Stackpole presented Civilian Commendation Medals to all awardees, including Davis and Steele. Civilian Certificates of achievement were presented to all finalists including the MICC’s Young, Boston and Myers.
About the MICC:
Headquartered at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the Mission and Installation Contracting Command consists of about 1,300 military and civilian members who are responsible for contracting goods and services in support of Soldiers as well as readying trained contracting units for the operating force and contingency environment when called upon. MICC contracts are vital in feeding more than 200,000 Soldiers every day, providing many daily base operations support services at installations, facilitate training in the preparation of more than 100,000 conventional force members annually, training more than 500,000 students each year, and maintaining more than 14.4 million acres of land and 170,000 structures.
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