Ashley Cucchiarelli

Ashley Cucchiarelli serves as a Contract Coordinator for the USDA Forest Service, playing a critical role in facilitating the acquisition of essential services that support the agency’s mission of ecological stewardship, wildfire mitigation, and operational readiness in remote environments. She manages the end-to-end procurement lifecycle for non-construction contracts, ensuring compliance with FAR regulations and aligning acquisitions with strategic priorities such as forest health, emergency response, and infrastructure resilience. Her work bridges operational needs with contracting execution, enabling timely delivery of mission-critical resources across federal lands. Cucchiarelli maintains consistent relationships with a select group of vendors including ACI FEDERAL INC, ONE STOP RECRUITING LLC, GONDO ROY E MD, THE LOCUMS CO, LLC, and AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on specialized labor support, security services, and niche technical staffing solutions required to sustain field operations. Her procurement approach emphasizes reliability and regulatory compliance, often engaging firms with proven experience in federal contracting and mission-specific domain knowledge. Her contracting patterns reflect a balanced commitment to socioeconomic goals, with approximately half of her acquisitions structured as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, and the other half open to all competitors. This demonstrates a deliberate effort to foster small business participation without compromising operational flexibility. She actively leverages small business capabilities to meet urgent staffing and service needs across diverse geographic regions. Cucchiarelli’s primary procurement focus centers on NAICS 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing) and NAICS 561621 (Security Systems Services), indicating a strong emphasis on food services for remote field personnel and security systems to protect sensitive forest infrastructure. Her expertise lies in procuring specialized, mission-essential services that ensure workforce sustainability and site security in challenging, often isolated, operational environments.