Marissa Piegols

Marissa Piegols serves as a key procurement professional within the Social Security Administration’s Office of Acquisition and Grants, supporting the agency’s mission to deliver secure, reliable, and modernized administrative infrastructure for social benefit programs. She manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions centered on IT modernization, systems integration, and cybersecurity services, ensuring that critical operational systems remain resilient and compliant with federal standards. Her work directly enables the SSA’s ability to process benefits efficiently and safeguard sensitive public data through strategic sourcing of mission-critical technology and services. Piegols maintains longstanding relationships with leading contractors including CA, Inc., Johnson Controls, Inc., East Coast Welding & Construction Co., Inc., and ColorID, LLC, reflecting a balanced mix of enterprise-level technology providers, facilities management specialists, and identity verification solution vendors. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, lifecycle support, and vendor accountability, often leveraging indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) vehicles and blanket purchase agreements to streamline procurement cycles and ensure continuity of service. Her procurement patterns show a strong preference for open competition, with 93.8% of awards issued without set-asides, indicating a focus on broad market competition to achieve technical excellence and operational scale. While small business participation is limited at 6.3%, it is strategically directed toward Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, aligning with agency-wide goals to foster innovation and diversity in the vendor base without compromising mission-critical requirements. Piegols’ primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 511210 (Software Publishers), 334111 (Electronic Computer Manufacturing), and 611420 (Computer Training), underscoring her specialization in custom software development, hardware procurement for federal computing environments, and workforce upskilling in secure IT operations. She routinely sources cloud infrastructure, data processing services, and cybersecurity solutions under NAICS 518210 and 541519, demonstrating deep expertise in modernizing legacy systems while maintaining FedRAMP and NIST compliance.