Christy G. Smith

Christy G. Smith serves as a Contracting Officer for the USDA Forest Service – SPoC East, where she manages the acquisition of critical infrastructure and support services essential to maintaining federal forest lands and associated facilities. Her portfolio encompasses construction, environmental management, and operational support contracts that directly advance the agency’s mission of ecosystem sustainability and public access. She specializes in procurement under the Federal Acquisition Regulation for complex, mission-critical projects including facility modernization, water system rehabilitation, and forestry support operations, ensuring compliance with federal standards and environmental mandates. Smith cultivates collaborative relationships with a diverse range of contractors, primarily in construction, surveying, and forestry support services. She regularly engages with firms specializing in civil infrastructure, site remediation, and land management support, fostering partnerships that align with the agency’s operational resilience goals. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes and contractor accountability, with a preference for vendors possessing proven experience in federal forest environments and environmental compliance. Her procurement strategy reflects a strong commitment to small business participation, with approximately 32% of her awards designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, and a notable 3.6% allocated to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. While the majority of her acquisitions are open to full and open competition, she strategically deploys socioeconomic set-asides to expand market access and promote equitable opportunity among qualified small businesses. Smith’s primary technical focus lies in NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), which accounts for half of her acquisitions, followed by highway and bridge construction (237310) and surveying and mapping services (541370). She routinely procures services related to forest trail maintenance, ecological restoration, structural rehabilitation, and land surveying, demonstrating deep domain expertise in federal land management contracting and environmental infrastructure procurement.