Marie-Claire Pearce

Marie-Claire Pearce serves as a Lease Contracting Officer within the NIH A E Construction office, responsible for managing the acquisition of nonresidential lease space critical to the National Institutes of Health’s biomedical research infrastructure. She oversees the full lifecycle of lease procurement activities—from market research and requirement development to contract award and performance monitoring—ensuring that facility space aligns with stringent scientific, safety, and compliance standards. Her work directly supports mission continuity by securing modern, utility-rich environments tailored to sensitive laboratory operations, including HVAC, power redundancy, and hazardous material handling capabilities. She primarily handles long-term real property leases under the authority of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the dataset, Pearce’s portfolio consistently engages commercial real estate developers, property management firms, and facilities services providers with expertise in federal government leasing and laboratory-ready space conversions. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, rigorous facility condition assessments, and adherence to GSA and NIH facility standards, fostering collaborative, long-term vendor partnerships grounded in transparency and regulatory compliance. Pearce’s procurement activity reflects a 100% preference for non-set-aside acquisitions, indicating a focus on full and open competition rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. This pattern suggests an operational priority on securing specialized, mission-critical space where qualified vendors are limited by technical capability rather than socioeconomic status, aligning with the unique demands of federal research infrastructure. Her primary NAICS focus is 531120—Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings (except Miniwarehouses)—reflecting deep specialization in procuring purpose-built, science-ready facilities. She routinely acquires leased space equipped for high-performance computing, biosafety level containment, and utility-intensive research environments, demonstrating technical expertise in facility engineering requirements essential to NIH’s scientific mission.