Colleen Widger

Colleen Widger serves as a key procurement professional within the Federal Highway Administration’s Eastern Federal Lands Division, where she manages engineering services contracts critical to maintaining transportation infrastructure on federally managed lands, including national forests and public rights-of-way. Her work directly supports the agency’s mission to ensure safe, resilient, and environmentally responsible roadways and bridges. Widger specializes in the acquisition of professional engineering services, overseeing the full lifecycle of contract solicitation, evaluation, and award for complex civil infrastructure projects that require technical expertise in geotechnical analysis, hydraulic modeling, and transportation design. She maintains long-standing relationships with a core group of experienced contractors, including ESTES BROS. CONST. INC., BLUEGRASS CONTRACTING CORP, BRYANT'S LAND AND DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRIES, INC., ECLIPSE COMPANIES, LLC, and ASPEN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. These partnerships are built on consistent performance in delivering high-quality engineering deliverables, such as environmental impact assessments, bridge inspections, and right-of-way planning. Widger’s procurement approach emphasizes technical competence, past performance, and compliance with federal engineering standards, fostering reliable vendor collaboration across multi-year project cycles. Widger’s contracting activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic focus on selecting the most qualified firms based on technical merit rather than socioeconomic preferences, aligning with the division’s need for specialized engineering expertise that may be limited in the small business pool. While small business participation is not formally prioritized, all procurements remain compliant with federal acquisition regulations and competitive bidding requirements. Her procurement portfolio is exclusively focused on NAICS 541330—Engineering Services—encompassing transportation planning, geospatial analysis, structural evaluation, and environmental compliance engineering. She routinely acquires services requiring licensed professional engineers, surveyors, and environmental specialists to support federally owned highway systems, ensuring adherence to FHWA standards and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements.