Jill Bennett

Jill Bennett serves as a Technical Contracting Specialist within the USDA Forest Service, where she plays a critical role in acquiring technical services that support forest health, wildfire mitigation, and ecological restoration initiatives. Her responsibilities include developing and managing solicitations for specialized support activities in remote and rugged environments, ensuring acquisitions align with federal procurement regulations and agency mission priorities. She primarily handles task orders and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts for field-based technical services, including forest inventory, invasive species management, and infrastructure resilience planning. Her work bridges operational needs with compliance-driven procurement practices, ensuring that technical requirements are clearly defined and competitively sourced to maintain operational readiness across national forest lands. Jill consistently collaborates with a core 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 focus on niche technical expertise—ranging from forestry support specialists and field biologists to staffing and logistics providers with experience in federal land management operations. Her contracting patterns emphasize long-term, performance-based engagements with vendors who demonstrate proven capability in delivering services under challenging environmental conditions, often requiring on-site presence and specialized certifications. Jill’s procurement strategy is fully aligned with the USDA Forest Service’s commitment to small business participation, with 100% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. She actively prioritizes contracting with small businesses that are certified under various socioeconomic programs, ensuring equitable access to federal opportunities for firms with expertise in forestry support services. This consistent focus fosters a robust pipeline of capable small vendors and strengthens community-based economic resilience in rural regions where Forest Service operations are concentrated. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—which encompasses services such as forest thinning, prescribed burning support, wildlife habitat assessment, and silvicultural operations. She procures technical labor, field equipment, and specialized consulting services essential to sustaining forest ecosystems, emphasizing outcomes-driven contracting that prioritizes ecological integrity and operational safety in federal wildland environments.