Josie Wedlock

Josie Wedlock serves as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, part of the U.S. Forest Service under the Department of Agriculture. In this role, she provides technical oversight and contract administration for acquisitions supporting ecological restoration, wildfire recovery, and infrastructure resilience across western Colorado and southeastern Wyoming. Her responsibilities include monitoring contractor performance, ensuring compliance with federal regulations, and facilitating communication between field operations and vendor teams. Wedlock specializes in managing service-based contracts aligned with the agency’s mission of sustainable land management and public safety, with a focus on post-fire ecosystem rehabilitation and habitat conservation initiatives. Wedlock maintains a consistent working relationship with ANSON EXCAVATING & PIPE, INC., a key contractor engaged in site preparation, erosion control, and infrastructure repair activities critical to post-disturbance land recovery. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for long-term, performance-based partnerships with vendors who demonstrate technical proficiency in environmental restoration and heavy civil construction support. She actively collaborates with contractors to ensure adherence to environmental standards and operational timelines, fostering a cooperative oversight model grounded in compliance and mission alignment. Wedlock’s acquisition portfolio is entirely designated as Total Small Business Set-Aside under FAR 19.5, reflecting a strong institutional commitment to small business participation. She consistently prioritizes contracting opportunities for small businesses, ensuring equitable access to federal resources and promoting economic development within rural communities served by the National Forest. Her approach reinforces the agency’s socioeconomic goals by directing all eligible procurements toward small business concerns without further socioeconomic subcategories. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541930 (Translation and Interpretation Services), indicating a specialized need for linguistic and cultural support services related to public engagement, tribal consultation, and multilingual outreach in remote, diverse regions. This reflects expertise in procuring non-traditional, mission-critical services that enable effective communication and community collaboration within the agency’s operational landscape.