Diane Long

Diane Long serves as a Contracting Officer at the Denver Federal Center under the Bureau of Reclamation, where she manages the acquisition of critical infrastructure support services essential to the agency’s mission of modernizing water resource systems across the western United States. Her portfolio encompasses heavy civil engineering, environmental monitoring, and operational maintenance contracts, with a focus on ensuring the integrity of hydraulic structures and the accuracy of hydrologic data collection. She exercises full contracting authority under FAR Part 15, leading complex procurements that require technical evaluation, risk mitigation, and compliance with federal environmental and engineering standards. Long maintains established relationships with a core group of contractors including AECOM Technical Services, Inc., BenchLab LLC, and Frontier Precision Inc., who provide specialized engineering, laboratory analysis, and precision instrumentation services. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for proven technical partners with demonstrated expertise in water resource systems, environmental sampling, and field data acquisition. She frequently engages vendors capable of delivering high-precision equipment maintenance and real-time monitoring solutions, fostering long-term performance-based partnerships that align with the Bureau’s operational resilience goals. While the majority of her acquisitions—76.2%—are conducted without set-asides, Long consistently prioritizes small business participation, with 23.8% of awards structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. She actively leverages the small business ecosystem to source niche technical services, ensuring competitive diversity while maintaining performance standards. Her procurement strategy reflects a balanced approach to socioeconomic goals and mission-critical delivery. Her primary NAICS focus areas include 811310 for industrial machinery maintenance, 562111 for solid waste collection support, and 541990 for professional scientific and technical services. These reflect her domain expertise in environmental compliance, field operations, and specialized technical consulting required to sustain Reclamation’s water infrastructure and ecological restoration initiatives.