Jenny M Votapka

Jenny M. Votapka serves as a Purchasing Agent for the USDA Forest Service, where she plays a critical role in executing acquisitions that support the agency’s mission of sustaining national forest and grassland ecosystems. She manages a diverse portfolio of procurement actions focused on operational readiness, ecological restoration, and infrastructure resilience in remote and rugged environments. Her responsibilities include soliciting, evaluating, and awarding contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, with an emphasis on timely delivery of mission-critical services to ensure public safety and resource management. Votapka routinely handles service-based acquisitions ranging from janitorial and logistical support to specialized forestry operations and civil infrastructure maintenance. She maintains active relationships with a select group of 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 strategic alignment with vendors capable of delivering specialized labor, temporary staffing, and technical support tailored to the Forest Service’s field operations. Her contracting patterns demonstrate consistent collaboration with firms experienced in federal compliance, emergency response logistics, and remote-site service delivery, fostering reliable, mission-aligned vendor relationships. Votapka exhibits a strong commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with 85.7% of her awards designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, and 14.3% specifically reserved for HUBZone firms. This pattern underscores her dedication to expanding economic opportunity for small, disadvantaged businesses while ensuring the agency benefits from agile, community-based service providers. Her procurement strategy actively prioritizes small business participation as a core component of operational sustainability. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 561720 (Janitorial Services), which accounts for over half of her activity, followed by NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction). This reflects her technical expertise in procuring essential services that maintain forest infrastructure, support wildfire response operations, and ensure safe public access to federal lands.