BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA

Hugh H. (Hamp) Wilson
5663 Bradfordville Road
Tallahassee, FL 32309
Attachment #17
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Since March 1988, Mr. Wilson has operated his own consulting business, specializing in the management of
government procurement and contracting activities. He is considered an expert in solicitation analyses, proposal
development, including proposal themes, key personnel identification and evaluation, organizational structure and
responsiveness to solicitation requirements, red-team reviews, SEB simulation, procurement systems reviews, negotiation
strategies, contract administration, etc, and provides these services to many of the major aerospace companies throughout the
nation.
Mr. Wilson had a long and distinguished career with NASA before retiring as a Senior Executive in 1988. Even
though retired, Mr. Wilson continues to serve the agency by regularly conducting seminars for NASA engineers and
contracting officials on the proper methods and procedures to employ while conducting major procurements, i.e., those in
excess of fifty million dollars that require Source Evaluation Board (SEB) procedures. In addition to his service to NASA,
he also provides this training course for aerospace companies and allied professional organizations such as the National
Contract Management Association ( NCMA).
From May 1985 to March 1988, he was the Director of Procurement at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in
Huntsville, Alabama, where he managed a staff of over 180 procurement professionals and a procurement budget in excess of
$2.5 billion. While at MSFC, he managed the activities that led to the contractual settlements attendant to the Challenger
accident, for which he received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. During that same period, he was a member of the
MSFC SEB Advisory Council and served either as a senior review official, or the Source Selection Authority, on over twenty
major SEBs.
Mr. Wilson served as the Director of Procurement Policy at NASA HQs from June 1979 to May 1985. During that
period he represented NASA in negotiating the final version of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR.). He was
frequently called upon to brief other government agencies, congressional staffs and foreign embassies, and civic, business
and professional organizations, on NASA procurement policies.
Prior to his Headquarters tour, Mr. Wilson spent ten years at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) where he served as the
Chief of Administrative Operations for the Procurement Office and nine years at the MSFC as a contract negotiator. While
serving at KSC, Mr. Wilson found time to serve as president of the local chapters of the National Contract Management
Association (NCMA); the Reserve Officers Association (ROA); and, the University of Alabama Alumni Association.
He is a frequent lecturer, speaker, teacher and briefer at procurement seminars, training workshops, universities,
government agencies and corporations. Mr. Wilson is a Certified Professional Contract Manager (CPCM), a Fellow, a
member of the Board of Advisors Emeritus (BOAE), and Honorary Life Member of the National Contract Management
Association (NCMA).
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and a Master’s Degree from the Florida
Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, where he has served as an adjunct professor on their main campus in
Melbourne, as well as their offsite campus in Alexandria, VA.
A graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College and the Army Associate Executive Logistics
Development Course, he retired as a Colonel in the Army Reserve after 32 years of service. He has been the recipient of the
Army Commendation Medal as well as the Army Meritorious Service Medal. In 2003, Mr. Wilson received NASA’s highest
non-Government honor, the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. During his active service with NASA he was
awarded the NASA Medal for Outstanding Leadership and the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, as well as numerous other
special achievement and service awards. In 2009, he received NCMA’s highest honor, the Alvis D. Keen Honorary Life
Member Award, and during the same year he was also elected to the Hall of Fame of the Cape Canaveral Chapter of NCMA.
He is active in several civic endeavors in Tallahassee, serving as a member of the National Board of Directors of the
Florida Institute of Technology Alumni Association, as a past member of the Board of Directors of the Challenger Learning
Center, as past president of the Centerville Rural Community Association (CeRCA), a homeowners’ association in Leon
County, and as a past member of the Board of Directors of Tallahassee Freenet. His civic endeavors also include serving as
a driver/escort transporting crippled and burned children to Shriner’s hospitals throughout the United States for treatment.
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