Maria Dent

Maria Dent serves as a Lease Contracting Officer for the Public Buildings Service’s R00 Center for Broker Services, where she leads the acquisition and management of nonresidential real estate leases to support federal agency workspace requirements nationwide. Her role is central to the agency’s mission of optimizing federal footprints through strategic leasing, ensuring secure, efficient, and cost-effective facilities. She primarily handles complex commercial lease transactions under FAR Part 17 and GSA-specific leasing authorities, negotiating long-term agreements for office space and mission-critical facilities across diverse geographic markets. Maria maintains consistent contracting relationships with a core group of institutional real estate owners and developers, including TWO CON LLC, ONNI TIMES SQUARE LP, CVD MAIN LLC, BELTSVILLE GSA FDA LLC, and CC OWNER LLC. These partnerships reflect her focus on high-value, long-duration leases with experienced commercial landlords who possess the capacity to meet federal security, compliance, and operational standards. Her working relationships are characterized by structured negotiation cycles, performance-based lease terms, and proactive portfolio management to align tenant needs with market conditions. Her contracting activity reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with 97.9% of awards issued without set-asides. Only 2.1% of her awards are designated as 8(a) competed, indicating a procurement strategy prioritizing market-wide competition over socioeconomic set-asides. While she occasionally engages small business participants, her portfolio is not structured around targeted socioeconomic programs. Maria’s expertise centers on NAICS 531120 (Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings), which accounts for nearly 90% of her activity, with secondary focus on other real estate lessors and minimal residential or administrative services procurement. She specializes in procuring leased commercial office space, including build-to-suit and tenant improvement arrangements, demonstrating deep technical knowledge in real estate valuation, lease administration, and federal facility planning.