Josephine Marcano

Josephine Marcano serves as a Contracting Manager responsible for overseeing the full lifecycle of procurement actions within her organization, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and aligning contracting strategies with mission-critical objectives. She specializes in the solicitation, evaluation, and award of engineering services contracts, managing complex requirements that demand technical rigor and rigorous source selection processes. Her role is central to the agency’s mission of delivering high-integrity, performance-based solutions through transparent and competitive acquisition practices. She routinely handles firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursement contracts for professional engineering services, including systems design, infrastructure analysis, and technical consulting. Josephine collaborates with a diverse pool of engineering service providers, including large professional services firms and specialized technical consultants, fostering relationships grounded in performance accountability and regulatory compliance. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages vendors with proven expertise in civil, mechanical, and systems engineering disciplines. Her approach emphasizes merit-based selection, with a focus on past performance, technical capability, and organizational stability, ensuring that contract awards reflect the highest standards of value and risk mitigation. Josephine’s contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her awards issued under non-set-aside conditions. She does not routinely utilize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, instead prioritizing full and open competition to ensure access to the broadest possible pool of qualified engineering talent. This approach underscores her commitment to efficiency and technical excellence over socioeconomic targeting, though she remains compliant with all applicable small business participation requirements. Her primary focus is on NAICS 541330—Engineering Services—where she procures a wide range of technical solutions including structural analysis, environmental engineering, geotechnical studies, and systems integration. She works closely with engineering firms capable of delivering design-build, performance-based, and standards-compliant services across infrastructure and technical domains, demonstrating deep expertise in evaluating technical proposals and managing contract performance in highly regulated environments.