Alisha Knaub

Alisha Knaub serves as a Purchasing Agent for the Custer Gallatin National Forest, a unit of the U.S. Forest Service under the Department of Agriculture. In this role, she manages the acquisition of goods and services essential to maintaining federal public lands, including infrastructure repair, ecological restoration, and visitor safety initiatives. Her procurement portfolio spans construction, maintenance, and support services critical to sustaining forest operations across a vast and rugged terrain. Alisha ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning purchases with the agency’s mission of ecological stewardship and public access, frequently handling contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation for construction, janitorial, and forestry support services. She maintains strong, recurring relationships with key contractors including YOUNG GUN CONSTRUCTION LLC, TK3, LLC, and KOMMODITIES CORP, which consistently deliver specialized services ranging from civil engineering to facility maintenance. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in remote-site operations and environmental compliance. Alisha’s contracting approach emphasizes reliability, local capacity, and responsiveness to seasonal operational demands, fostering long-term vendor collaboration grounded in performance and regulatory adherence. Alisha demonstrates a pronounced commitment to small business participation, with 85.2% of her acquisitions designated as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. She actively prioritizes socioeconomic programs, allocating nearly 5% of awards to Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses and 1.2% to HUBZone firms. Her procurement patterns reflect a deliberate strategy to expand economic opportunity within rural and underserved communities while ensuring qualified, capable vendors support critical forest management objectives. Her primary procurement focus centers on NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction), 561720 (Janitorial Services), and 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry). She routinely acquires trail and road maintenance, wildfire fuel reduction support, ranger station upkeep, and vegetation management services, demonstrating deep familiarity with federal land management technical requirements and environmental mitigation standards.