Marion L. Veber

Marion L. Veber serves as a Contracting Officer within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), responsible for managing complex procurements that support the agency’s mission of environmental monitoring, oceanographic research, and climate resilience. She oversees the acquisition of professional, scientific, and technical services critical to data collection, analytical modeling, and environmental compliance, ensuring alignment with federal contracting regulations and NOAA’s strategic priorities in marine and atmospheric science. Her portfolio primarily includes non-construction services requiring specialized technical expertise, often involving advanced instrumentation, environmental analysis, and scientific consulting. Veber maintains established relationships with a diverse set of contractors, including the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, Tronconi Segarra & Associates LLP, JNB Services LLC, Pure Enviro-Management, LLC, and The Regents of the University of Colorado. These partnerships reflect a consistent reliance on firms capable of delivering high-caliber scientific support, environmental consulting, and laboratory services. Her contracting patterns indicate a preference for long-term, performance-based engagements with vendors possessing proven technical capability in oceanic and atmospheric research domains, fostering collaborative, mission-critical vendor relationships. While the majority of her acquisitions—70.9%—are conducted without set-asides, Veber demonstrates a strong commitment to small business participation, with 29.1% of awards designated as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. She actively leverages small business capabilities to meet NOAA’s operational needs, prioritizing firms with specialized technical expertise over socioeconomic categories such as 8(a) or HUBZone, reflecting a performance-driven approach to socioeconomic contracting. Her primary NAICS focus areas include 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services), underscoring her specialization in procurements for environmental analysis, data interpretation, and research support. She also regularly acquires analytical laboratory instrumentation (334516) and environmental consulting services (541620), demonstrating deep technical familiarity with the scientific infrastructure underpinning NOAA’s observational and predictive missions.