Amanda Rossiter

Amanda Rossiter serves as a primary contracting professional within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), supporting the agency’s mission to advance oceanic, atmospheric, and coastal science through strategic procurement. She manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions focused on research, maritime operations, and specialized instrumentation, ensuring alignment with NOAA’s scientific and operational priorities. Her work spans contract lifecycle management for complex technical services and equipment, with a strong emphasis on enabling environmental monitoring, marine research, and coastal resilience initiatives. Rossiter’s acquisitions are instrumental in sustaining NOAA’s data collection infrastructure and field operations across coastal and Great Lakes regions. Rossiter maintains consistent partnerships with a select group of contractors, including the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, Tronconi Segarra & Associates LLP, JNB Services LLC, Pure Enviro-Management, LLC, and The Regents of the University of Colorado. These relationships reflect a blend of academic research institutions, environmental consulting firms, and specialized service providers with expertise in marine logistics, environmental compliance, and scientific instrumentation. Her procurement approach prioritizes long-term vendor collaboration, leveraging contractor capabilities in niche technical domains to support NOAA’s mission-critical operations. Rossiter demonstrates a strong commitment to small business participation, with 42.5% of her acquisitions designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. While no other socioeconomic set-asides are predominant, her consistent use of small business set-asides underscores a deliberate strategy to foster innovation and capacity building among qualified small firms. This pattern supports broader federal goals for equitable economic opportunity while maintaining access to agile, specialized service providers. Her primary procurement focus centers on NAICS 483114 (Coastal and Great Lakes Passenger Transportation) and 483113 (Freight Transportation), reflecting NOAA’s reliance on maritime logistics for research and monitoring missions. Additional emphasis is placed on NAICS 541715 for physical and engineering research services, as well as 336611 for vessel maintenance and 334511 for nautical instrumentation manufacturing, highlighting her technical expertise in marine science support systems.