Marissa Kingston

Marissa Kingston serves as a procurement professional within the Federal Communications Commission, supporting the agency’s mission to modernize national communications infrastructure and ensure equitable access to broadband and connected services. She manages a portfolio of acquisitions centered on professional, scientific, and technical services critical to regulatory oversight, spectrum management, and network security compliance. Her work directly enables the FCC’s technical and policy objectives by securing expert consulting, engineering analysis, and systems evaluation services that inform rulemaking, enforcement, and infrastructure planning. She typically handles complex, performance-based contracts requiring deep domain expertise in telecommunications standards and federal compliance frameworks. While no specific contractor relationships are publicly identifiable, Kingston’s procurement activity consistently engages a broad base of professional services firms with specialized capabilities in communications policy, network modeling, and regulatory impact analysis. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for established technical consultants and niche service providers with proven experience in FCC regulatory environments, including firms skilled in RF engineering, spectrum allocation modeling, and broadband deployment feasibility studies. Vendor partnerships are typically structured through competitive sealed bidding or requirements-based task orders under GSA schedules and agency-specific indefinite-delivery contracts. Kingston’s contracting portfolio shows a 100% preference for non-set-aside awards, indicating a focus on open competition based on technical merit rather than socioeconomic preferences. This reflects the FCC’s need for specialized, mission-critical expertise that may not be readily available among small business vendors in this narrow technical domain. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her acquisitions, all procurements remain fully compliant with federal competition requirements. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing consulting in telecommunications regulation, spectrum policy analysis, cybersecurity risk assessment, and technical standards development. She procures services that support FCC’s enforcement of technical rules, evaluation of emerging technologies, and assessment of broadband access gaps, requiring deep familiarity with FCC Part 2, Part 25, and Part 76 regulations, as well as NTIA and NIST alignment frameworks.