Daniel Cluck

Daniel Cluck serves as a procurement specialist within the USDA Forest Service, supporting critical operational needs through strategic acquisitions aligned with the agency’s mission of forest health, wildfire mitigation, and infrastructure resilience. He manages a focused portfolio of contracts for specialized equipment and services essential to field operations in remote and rugged environments, ensuring that procurement activities directly enable ecological restoration, invasive species control, and emergency response capabilities. His acquisitions are narrowly tailored to support the agency’s technical requirements for ground-based machinery and maintenance systems used in forest management. Cluck maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of 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 reliance on niche vendors capable of delivering specialized equipment, temporary staffing solutions, and technical support services tailored to the unique demands of federal land management operations. His contracting patterns emphasize reliability, regulatory compliance, and rapid deployment of mission-critical resources in austere conditions. Cluck exhibits a 100% commitment to small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, ensuring that all acquisitions are reserved exclusively for small businesses. This unwavering focus reflects a deliberate strategy to foster economic opportunity within the rural and regional economies that border national forests, while simultaneously building a resilient vendor base capable of meeting the Forest Service’s specialized needs. His contracting practices consistently prioritize small business participation without exception, reinforcing the agency’s socioeconomic goals. His procurement activity is exclusively concentrated under NAICS 333112, which encompasses the manufacturing of lawn and garden tractors and related home and professional-grade land management equipment. This specialization underscores his technical expertise in acquiring heavy-duty, off-road, and forestry-certified machinery used for brush clearing, trail maintenance, and fuel reduction operations—core functions vital to sustaining forest ecosystem health and firefighter safety.