Annica Brown - COR

Annica Brown serves as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for the USDA Forest Service’s Csa Intermountain 9 office, where she provides critical oversight of civil engineering and infrastructure maintenance contracts across national forest lands. In this role, she ensures technical compliance, performance accountability, and mission alignment for acquisitions supporting water systems, roads, bridges, dams, and visitor facilities. Her work directly enables operational resilience and public access to remote forest service installations, making her a key liaison between field engineers and contracted service providers. She primarily manages engineering services contracts under FAR Part 36, with a focus on design-build and performance-based acquisition strategies. Brown maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of specialized contractors, including McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC, G.S. Bostic Painting LLC, and Camas Creek Contracting L.L.C. These partnerships reflect a preference for regional, hands-on firms with proven expertise in remote-site construction and environmental compliance. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term vendor reliability, safety record adherence, and the ability to operate under challenging logistical conditions typical of forest service environments. All of Brown’s acquisitions are structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a steadfast commitment to socioeconomic inclusion. She consistently awards contracts to small businesses without further socioeconomic subcategories, prioritizing capacity-building among local and regional contractors with demonstrated capability in civil infrastructure. This pattern supports rural economic development and ensures that contracting opportunities directly benefit communities adjacent to national forest lands. Her procurement portfolio is exclusively focused on NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), encompassing civil, structural, and environmental engineering tasks. She procures services related to hydraulic modeling, erosion control, road grading, culvert installation, and facility rehabilitation—specializing in projects requiring adherence to USDA environmental standards and NEPA compliance. Brown’s technical domain expertise lies in sustainable infrastructure solutions tailored to sensitive forest ecosystems.