Maria T. Evans

Maria T. Evans serves as a key procurement lead within the W2SD Endist Philadelphia, a civil engineering arm of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where she manages complex acquisitions supporting national defense infrastructure. Her role centers on planning, soliciting, and awarding contracts for large-scale civil works projects including coastal resilience, dredging, port maintenance, and military installation upgrades. She oversees the full lifecycle of engineering procurements, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning contracting strategies with the Army’s strategic priorities in maritime and waterway infrastructure. Her portfolio primarily includes construction and engineering services requiring advanced technical oversight and interagency coordination. Evans maintains longstanding relationships with a core group of specialized contractors, including Boh Environmental, L.L.C., CONRAD SHIPYARD, L.L.C., HDR ARCHITECTURE, INC., BUCHART HORN INC, and NORFOLK DREDGING COMPANY. These partnerships reflect a preference for firms with proven expertise in heavy civil construction, marine engineering, and environmental remediation. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical rigor, and contractor capacity to deliver complex, multi-year infrastructure projects under demanding operational conditions. She consistently engages vendors with demonstrated experience in federal civil works and military-specific engineering standards. Her procurement patterns show a strong emphasis on open competition, with 64.3% of awards issued without set-asides, while 35.7% are reserved for total small business participation under FAR 19.5. This balance reflects a commitment to leveraging small business innovation without compromising project scale or technical requirements. While no specific socioeconomic set-asides (e.g., 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB) dominate her portfolio, she actively supports small business inclusion through full and open competition with small business set-asides where appropriate. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction), followed by highway and bridge construction (237310) and water/sewer infrastructure (237110). She routinely procures dredging, structural earthwork, coastal protection systems, and marine terminal upgrades, demonstrating deep expertise in federal civil works, hydraulic engineering, and infrastructure resilience projects critical to military readiness.