Marsha R Denning

Marsha R. Denning serves as a Contracting Officer responsible for managing the full lifecycle of professional services acquisitions, ensuring compliance with federal procurement regulations and advancing mission-critical objectives through strategic contracting. She specializes in the solicitation, evaluation, and award of engineering services contracts, applying sound risk management and acquisition planning practices to deliver high-quality technical solutions. Her role is central to the agency’s procurement mission, ensuring transparency, fairness, and efficiency in the acquisition process while maintaining alignment with statutory requirements and best practices in federal contracting. Denning’s contracting patterns reflect a broad and diverse contractor base, with no single vendor dominating her portfolio. She engages with a wide range of firms—from large national engineering consultants to niche technical service providers—fostering competitive environments that promote innovation and value. Her approach emphasizes open competition and rigorous source selection, ensuring that proposals are evaluated on technical merit, past performance, and cost reasonableness. She maintains professional, arms-length relationships with contractors, prioritizing integrity and adherence to the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Her procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted under full and open competition. This reflects a deliberate strategy to maximize market participation and leverage the broadest possible pool of qualified vendors, rather than relying on socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. While small business participation is not structurally mandated in her portfolio, she remains committed to fair and equitable access for all eligible offerors. Denning’s primary focus is on NAICS 541330—Engineering Services—encompassing civil, mechanical, environmental, and systems engineering support. She regularly procures design, analysis, testing, and technical advisory services critical to infrastructure, facility planning, and operational readiness. Her expertise lies in managing complex technical requirements, ensuring contractor deliverables meet stringent performance standards and regulatory benchmarks within the engineering domain.