Dave Leeman

Dave Leeman serves as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for the USDA Forest Service, providing critical oversight of acquisitions supporting forest health, wildfire mitigation, and ecological restoration initiatives. In this role, he ensures contractor performance aligns with mission-critical operational goals across remote and rugged federal lands, acting as the primary liaison between field teams and service providers. His procurement focus centers on technical support services essential to maintaining operational readiness, including forestry management, invasive species control, and emergency response coordination. Leeman’s work directly enables the Forest Service’s strategic priorities by ensuring timely, compliant, and effective delivery of mission-enabling contracts. Leeman maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of specialized 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 providers offering expert labor, medical support for field personnel, and technical services tailored to forestry operations. His contracting patterns emphasize long-term, performance-based engagements with vendors possessing proven experience in federal land management contexts, fostering trust through consistent compliance and mission alignment. Leeman demonstrates a steadfast commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with 100% of his acquisitions structured as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to prioritize small business participation, ensuring that contracting opportunities directly benefit small, community-based firms capable of delivering responsive, localized support for forest service operations. His approach reinforces the agency’s broader goals of economic inclusion and workforce development in rural and underserved regions. His procurement activities are exclusively focused on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as timber inventory, prescribed burn coordination, wildlife habitat enhancement, and forest infrastructure maintenance. Leeman’s expertise lies in securing specialized labor and technical support that directly contributes to ecosystem resilience and operational sustainability on national forests and grasslands.