Jean L. Mann

Jean L. Mann serves as a Contracting Officer within the 693JJ3 Acquisition and Grants Management unit of the Federal Highway Administration, where she leads the procurement of technical and management consulting services critical to advancing national transportation infrastructure. Her responsibilities include developing solicitation strategies, evaluating proposals, negotiating contract terms, and ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations for engineering and operational research initiatives. She plays a pivotal role in enabling data-informed decision-making by securing expert consulting services that support highway design, safety analysis, and system resilience planning. Her portfolio is exclusively focused on professional services rather than construction or hardware procurement. Mann maintains enduring relationships with key contractors including K & M Transportation Services LLC and the University of California, Los Angeles, both of which provide high-level administrative, operational, and research consulting services. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for long-term, performance-based engagements with firms possessing deep domain expertise in transportation systems and policy analysis. These partnerships are characterized by consistent recompete activity and a reliance on proven technical capability rather than volume-based vendor networks. Mann’s procurement portfolio reflects a 100% no set-aside orientation, indicating a focus on full and open competition without socioeconomic preferences such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides. This approach prioritizes technical merit and mission alignment over socioeconomic targeting, aligning with the agency’s need for specialized expertise that may be limited in the small business marketplace. Her primary NAICS focus is 541611—Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services—reflecting her specialization in procuring strategic advisory services, transportation policy analysis, operational efficiency studies, and systems engineering consulting. She consistently acquires services that inform infrastructure planning, data-driven policy development, and performance measurement frameworks for federal highway programs.