Heidi Van Gieson

Heidi Van Gieson serves as a key procurement professional within the USDA Forest Service, supporting the agency’s mission to sustain national forest and grassland ecosystems through strategic acquisition of critical support services. She manages contracts focused on operational readiness, ecological restoration, and emergency response capabilities in remote and rugged terrains. Her acquisitions primarily center on forestry support activities, ensuring the agency maintains the technical, logistical, and personnel resources necessary to execute large-scale land management operations. Van Gieson’s work directly enables field-level implementation of wildfire mitigation, invasive species control, and infrastructure resilience programs across federal lands. She maintains consistent contracting relationships with specialized vendors 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 service providers delivering workforce solutions, medical support, and technical consulting tailored to the unique demands of federal land management operations. Her procurement approach prioritizes subject-matter expertise over broad-scale contracting, favoring firms with demonstrated experience in forestry operations, seasonal labor mobilization, and field-based technical services. Van Gieson’s contracting activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on selecting the most qualified providers regardless of socioeconomic status, prioritizing mission-critical capability and operational continuity over targeted socioeconomic preferences. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, the nature of the services procured often naturally engages small, specialized firms with deep domain expertise. Her procurement focus is exclusively under NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as prescribed burning support, forest inventory and monitoring, pest and disease management, and field logistics coordination. She specializes in acquiring technical, field-deployable services that sustain ecosystem health and ensure safe, effective operations in high-risk, geographically isolated environments.