Julie Coleman

Julie Coleman serves as Heritage Program Leader for the USDA Forest Service, where she leads strategic acquisitions to preserve and restore cultural, historical, and archaeological resources across national forests and grasslands. In this role, she ensures compliance with federal heritage laws, including the National Historic Preservation Act, and oversees procurement activities that support research, documentation, and conservation of significant cultural sites. Her acquisitions are mission-critical to sustaining the Forest Service’s ecological and cultural stewardship objectives, particularly in remote and ecologically sensitive areas. She typically manages service-based contracts for heritage surveys, ethnographic studies, archival preservation, and cultural resource management planning. Julie collaborates closely with a select group of specialized 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 expertise in social science research, cultural resource consulting, and personnel services tailored to federal heritage programs. Her working relationships are characterized by long-term, performance-based engagements that prioritize subject-matter proficiency over volume, often requiring cleared personnel and field-ready teams capable of operating in rugged, federally protected environments. Julie maintains a 100% small business set-aside preference under FAR 19.5, consistently directing all heritage-related procurements to small businesses, including those certified under 8(a), HUBZone, and SDB programs. This reflects a deliberate agency-wide commitment to fostering economic opportunity for underserved firms with specialized capabilities in cultural heritage and social science research. Her contracting patterns prioritize capacity-building among small firms that can deliver high-quality, compliant heritage services in alignment with federal preservation standards. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541720—Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities—encompassing archaeological assessments, oral history documentation, ethnographic analysis, and heritage interpretation services. She specializes in acquiring technical expertise for cultural resource inventories, tribal consultation support, and heritage impact assessments, ensuring that Forest Service operations align with both ecological and cultural preservation mandates.