Craig Schmid

Craig Schmid serves as a key procurement lead within the USDA Forest Service’s Csa Intermountain 5 office, responsible for managing acquisitions that support the operational sustainability of national forest ecosystems. His work centers on securing essential services to maintain infrastructure, restore degraded lands, and enhance wildfire resilience across federal forest territories. Schmid handles a high volume of service-based contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, with a consistent focus on environmental remediation and ecological support functions. He plays a critical role in aligning procurement activities with the agency’s mission to preserve forest health through timely, compliant, and mission-driven contracting. Schmid maintains a tightly focused contractor base, primarily engaging TETRA TECH, INC. and ALLIED ENGINEERING SERVICES INC for specialized environmental and infrastructure support services. These partnerships are characterized by recurring, performance-based engagements that require technical expertise in ecological restoration, soil stabilization, and water resource management. His contracting patterns reflect a preference for established contractors with proven track records in federal environmental compliance, ensuring continuity and reliability in mission-critical operations. Schmid demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, directing 100% of his procurement activity toward Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This consistent application of socioeconomic preferences ensures that small, locally owned firms have equitable access to opportunities supporting federal land stewardship. His contracting approach actively fosters capacity building among small businesses capable of delivering environmental services in remote, high-risk forest environments. His procurement portfolio is exclusively concentrated under NAICS 562991—Septic Tank and Related Services—reflecting a specialized focus on wastewater management, septic system installation, and onsite sewage disposal infrastructure critical to remote forest facilities and firefighter support stations. This niche specialization underscores his technical expertise in environmental health systems that sustain human and ecological safety in undeveloped, high-altitude forest regions.