Bridgit Downign

Bridgit L. Downing serves as a Contracting Officer for the USDA Forest Service, where she manages the acquisition of critical services and equipment essential to sustaining national forest and grassland ecosystems. Her portfolio focuses on supporting operational readiness in remote and rugged environments, with an emphasis on ecological restoration, wildfire mitigation, and infrastructure resilience. She oversees the full lifecycle of contracts—from solicitation and evaluation to award and administration—ensuring compliance with federal procurement regulations and alignment with the agency’s mission to protect public lands and enhance forest health. Her acquisitions typically involve professional, technical, and logistical support services tailored to the unique demands of federal land management. Downing maintains consistent working relationships with key contractors 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 blend of specialized professional services, workforce support, and technical equipment procurement. Her contracting approach emphasizes reliability, technical competence, and mission alignment, often engaging vendors with proven experience in forestry operations, emergency response, and remote-area logistics. She fosters long-term vendor relationships grounded in performance accountability and regulatory compliance. Her set-aside preferences show a strong orientation toward open competition, with 83.3% of awards issued without socioeconomic set-asides, while 16.7% are designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This pattern indicates a preference for competitive, merit-based awarding while maintaining a deliberate, though limited, commitment to small business participation where appropriate to meet mission needs. Her primary NAICS focus areas include Support Activities for Forestry (115310), reflecting her core work in field operations and ecological services, followed by professional, scientific, and technical services (541990), as well as specialized manufacturing and equipment leasing categories. She routinely procures forestry support systems, aerial surveillance technology, temporary staffing solutions, and operational equipment critical to forest health and emergency response missions.