Danielle N Hegler

Danielle L. Hegler serves as a Contracting Officer for the Rocky Mountain Regional Office of the U.S. Forest Service, where she manages the acquisition lifecycle for mission-critical services supporting ecological restoration, wildfire mitigation, and watershed protection. In this role, she ensures compliance with federal procurement regulations while advancing the agency’s strategic goals in land stewardship and infrastructure resilience. Her portfolio primarily includes professional, technical, and operational support contracts aligned with environmental services, public land management, and community-based resource programs. While specific contractor relationships are not currently available in the dataset, Hegler consistently engages with a diverse vendor base, including small businesses, environmental consultants, and technical service providers. Her procurement approach emphasizes collaborative partnerships with firms capable of delivering field-based ecological services, data collection systems, and operational logistics support across rugged terrain. She fosters long-term vendor relationships grounded in performance accountability and regulatory compliance under FAR and agency-specific guidelines. Hegler demonstrates an exceptional commitment to small business participation, with 94.4% of her acquisitions set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate and sustained focus on socioeconomic contracting, prioritizing small business concerns without reliance on large business set-asides or sole-source mechanisms. Her pattern of awarding nearly all contracts to small businesses underscores a strong alignment with USDA’s broader goals of equitable economic opportunity and regional workforce development. Her primary NAICS focus includes healthcare-related services—such as mental health practitioner offices and physician services—as well as technical and trade education and solid waste collection. While these categories appear atypical for a forest service office, they likely support on-site health and safety services for field personnel, contractor support staff, and remote work camps. Hegler’s expertise lies in interpreting mission needs through a procurement lens, ensuring that even non-traditional NAICS codes serve the operational realities of managing public lands in the Rocky Mountain region.