Nicole Bell

Nicole Bell serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Systems and Experimental Warfare Center, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to advance maritime operational readiness through technical innovation. She manages a focused portfolio of engineering services acquisitions, primarily overseeing contracts for experimental warfare technologies, ocean infrastructure development, and explosive effects analysis. Her work ensures the timely delivery of mission-critical R&D and technical support services that underpin naval readiness and resilience. Bell’s acquisitions are strategically aligned with NAVFAC’s mandate to integrate cutting-edge scientific capabilities into naval operations, requiring deep technical understanding of complex engineering domains. Her primary contractor relationships include specialized research and engineering firms such as Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Boh Environmental, L.L.C., and Emerging Compounds Treatment Technologies, Inc., alongside international partners like Sociedad Española de Montajes Industriales SA and the Foundation for Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research. These partnerships reflect a preference for high-caliber technical providers with domain-specific expertise in marine systems, environmental remediation, and experimental warfare platforms. Bell fosters long-term, performance-driven collaborations with vendors capable of delivering rigorous scientific and engineering solutions under demanding operational conditions. Bell’s contracting activity shows a strong preference for open competition, with 87.5% of awards issued without set-aside designations, indicating a focus on technical merit over socioeconomic categorization. However, she consistently allocates 12.5% of awards under the Total Small Business Set-Aside program (FAR 19.5), demonstrating a measured but intentional commitment to small business participation where capabilities align with mission needs. Her procurement activity is entirely concentrated under NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), reflecting a singular focus on advanced engineering support for naval systems. She procures specialized services including oceanographic instrumentation design, environmental modeling, explosive hazard mitigation, and experimental testbed development—domains requiring highly skilled engineering talent and rigorous technical validation.