Beth Snyder

Beth Snyder serves as a Contracting Officer for the Siuslaw National Forest under the U.S. Forest Service, where she manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions to advance ecological restoration and infrastructure resilience across western Oregon. Her portfolio encompasses contracts for forest management support, habitat enhancement, and public access infrastructure, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and agency priorities in sustainable land stewardship. Snyder specializes in acquiring technical services and specialty trade contracting solutions that align with the Forest Service’s mission to restore native ecosystems, control invasive species, and maintain trail and road networks. She routinely oversees complex, mission-critical acquisitions requiring environmental compliance, site-specific logistics, and coordination with multiple federal and state stakeholders. Snyder maintains established relationships with key contractors including BEST SEPTIC, INC and LANNIS IRON WORKS, LLC, reflecting a preference for vendors with proven expertise in site-specific environmental remediation and structural infrastructure work. Her contracting approach emphasizes reliability, regulatory adherence, and local capacity, often favoring contractors with demonstrated experience in forested terrain and sensitive ecological zones. These partnerships are built on consistent performance, technical proficiency, and alignment with the agency’s operational tempo and environmental standards. Her procurement strategy prioritizes open competition, with 71.4% of awards issued without set-asides, while maintaining a meaningful commitment to small business participation through Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, accounting for 28.6% of her awards. While she does not routinely utilize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her consistent use of small business set-asides signals a deliberate effort to foster economic opportunity among qualified small contractors in rural and forest-adjacent communities. Snyder’s primary NAICS focus lies in Support Activities for Forestry (115310), reflecting her central role in procuring ecological restoration services, followed by Custom Computer Programming Services (541511) for geospatial and resource management systems. She also frequently acquires specialty trade contracting services (238990) for infrastructure projects, with additional activity in forest nursery operations (113210) and site-specific finishing trades (238320), demonstrating a technical domain expertise spanning ecological science, land management technology, and field-based construction.