Mark Ingram

Mark Ingram serves as a key procurement professional within the Cincinnati Acquisition Division of the Environmental Protection Agency, supporting the agency’s mission to advance environmental science through strategic acquisitions of technical and operational services. He manages a diverse portfolio of contracts focused on environmental monitoring, laboratory instrumentation, and compliance support, ensuring the procurement of high-precision analytical equipment and applied research services that underpin evidence-based regulatory decisions. His work directly enables the agency’s capacity to conduct environmental risk assessments, enforce compliance standards, and deploy field-ready scientific capabilities. Ingram maintains established relationships with a core group of vendors including Pegasus Technical Services, Biospyder Technologies, Boh Environmental, Omega Painting & Contracting, and Verina Consulting Group. These partnerships span environmental consulting, specialized instrumentation maintenance, hazardous waste handling, and facility systems integration, reflecting a balanced approach to both technical and infrastructure support needs. His contracting patterns emphasize long-term vendor collaboration, with a preference for firms demonstrating technical proficiency in environmental compliance and laboratory operations. His procurement strategy prioritizes open competition, with 76.2% of awards issued without set-asides, while still maintaining meaningful small business engagement through 19.1% Total Small Business Set-Asides and 4.8% 8(a) competed awards. This reflects a deliberate balance between operational efficiency and socioeconomic objectives, ensuring broad market access while upholding performance standards. Ingram’s primary NAICS focus areas include Facilities Support Services (561210), Engineering Services (541330), and Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal (562211), with additional emphasis on plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning contracting (238220). His expertise lies in acquiring mission-critical services that sustain environmental laboratories, ensure regulatory infrastructure integrity, and support field operations—aligning procurement outcomes directly with EPA’s scientific and compliance imperatives.