Erin Garcia

Erin Garcia serves as an Administrative Specialist within the USDA Forest Service’s Incident Procurement unit, supporting rapid-response logistical operations for wildland fire and all-hazard incident management. In this critical role, she facilitates the acquisition of essential services required to sustain incident command structures across national forests and grasslands, ensuring timely deployment of personnel and infrastructure. Her responsibilities include processing procurement actions, coordinating with field teams to identify urgent needs, and ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations. She specializes in low-dollar, high-urgency contracts that enable immediate operational readiness, often managing micro-purchase and simplified acquisition procedures under FAR Part 13. While specific contractor names are not publicly identified in current records, Erin works closely with a dynamic network of small business vendors who provide janitorial and sanitation services essential to maintaining hygiene and safety at temporary incident bases, mobile command posts, and crew camps. Her procurement pattern reflects consistent engagement with agile, locally responsive vendors capable of rapid mobilization under austere conditions. She fosters collaborative relationships with vendors who understand the unique demands of incident environments, prioritizing reliability, speed, and regulatory compliance over scale. Erin Garcia maintains a 100% Small Business Set-Aside preference for all her procurement actions, fully aligned with FAR 19.5 and the agency’s mission to maximize economic opportunity for small businesses. Her contracting patterns consistently channel opportunities to small, often locally based firms, reinforcing the USDA’s commitment to socioeconomic equity and community resilience in disaster response. She does not utilize other set-aside categories such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, but her exclusive reliance on small business set-asides ensures broad participation across the small business ecosystem. Her primary procurement focus is NAICS 561720—Janitorial Services—supporting the sanitation, waste management, and facility maintenance needs of temporary incident installations. She procures services including portable toilet servicing, debris removal, disinfection protocols, and hygiene station maintenance, demonstrating deep expertise in the operational hygiene domain critical to public health and worker safety during prolonged incident operations.