Ann S. Allan

Ann S. Allan serves as a Lease Contracting Officer for the U.S. Forest Service’s Region 4 Intermountain Regional Office, where she manages the acquisition and administration of real property leases critical to operational readiness across federal forest lands. Her role is central to securing facility space and land-based infrastructure that supports wildfire response, forest health initiatives, and public access programs. She specializes in nonresidential leasing transactions, ensuring compliance with federal property management standards and aligning lease acquisitions with the agency’s mission to sustainably steward public lands. Her portfolio encompasses long-term occupancy agreements for ranger stations, field offices, aviation support facilities, and maintenance depots, all essential to field-based forest service operations. Allan works with a broad spectrum of commercial lessors and real estate intermediaries who provide turnkey lease solutions for federal facilities. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages property owners and property management firms with demonstrated experience in federal leasing compliance, including those familiar with GSA Schedule 70 and FAR Part 17 lease provisions. Her contracting approach emphasizes transparency, competitive solicitation, and performance-based lease terms to ensure value and accountability. Allan’s procurement activity reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-asides. This indicates a focus on market-wide competition rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her contracting strategy, she remains compliant with all applicable small business goals and may include them opportunistically when they meet technical and operational requirements. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 531120 (Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings), accounting for 87.5% of her activity, with the remainder in NAICS 531190 (Lessors of Other Real Estate Property). She specializes in procuring leased office, storage, and operational facilities—often in remote or rural locations—requiring expertise in zoning, environmental constraints, and infrastructure compatibility with federal land use mandates. Her domain expertise centers on real estate acquisition for mission-critical, non-military federal operations.