Devorah Irizarry

Devorah Irizarry serves as a key procurement professional within the Malheur National Forest, part of the U.S. Forest Service under the Department of Agriculture, where she manages acquisitions critical to ecological stewardship and infrastructure resilience. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, and awarding contracts that support fuel reduction, trail and road maintenance, and ecological restoration projects across the forest’s vast and rugged terrain. She ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning procurements with the agency’s strategic priorities in wildfire risk mitigation and ecosystem health. Her portfolio primarily consists of construction and specialty trade services essential to maintaining public access and environmental sustainability. Irizarry cultivates collaborative relationships with a diverse array of contractors specializing in heavy civil engineering, specialty trade work, and transportation infrastructure. She consistently engages small businesses and local firms with proven expertise in forested land management, erosion control, and hazardous fuel removal. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term vendor partnerships grounded in performance reliability, safety compliance, and environmental sensitivity, fostering a contractor ecosystem attuned to the unique challenges of remote, ecologically sensitive sites. She demonstrates a strong and consistent commitment to socioeconomic contracting, directing 100% of her eligible acquisitions toward small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to empower local and disadvantaged entrepreneurs, ensuring that federal investment in public lands generates equitable economic opportunity. While specific set-aside categories like 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB are not disclosed, her pattern clearly prioritizes small business inclusion as a core pillar of procurement integrity. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction) and NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction), with significant activity in NAICS 238990 (All Other Specialty Trade Contractors). She procures services including mechanical thinning, prescribed burn support, trail reconstruction, culvert installation, and erosion control systems—all tailored to the ecological and logistical demands of the Malheur National Forest landscape.