Katherine Pasini

Katherine Pasini serves as a key procurement professional within the USDA Forest Service, overseeing the acquisition of critical infrastructure and construction services essential to maintaining the nation’s forest and grassland ecosystems. She manages a portfolio of contracts focused on civil engineering, site preparation, and public works projects in remote and rugged terrains, ensuring alignment with the agency’s mission of ecological resilience, wildfire mitigation, and operational readiness. Her acquisitions directly support the construction and rehabilitation of roads, bridges, drainage systems, and utility infrastructure vital to both public access and forest management operations. Pasini maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of contractors specializing in heavy civil construction, 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 blend of engineering firms delivering construction services and specialized staffing providers supporting technical and logistical operations in field environments. Her procurement approach emphasizes reliability, compliance, and on-time delivery under challenging environmental conditions. She demonstrates a robust commitment to small business participation, with 100% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a strategic emphasis on empowering small, locally based contractors capable of operating in dispersed, high-risk areas. Her contracting patterns consistently prioritize socioeconomic programs that expand opportunities for small businesses with expertise in civil infrastructure. Her primary procurement focus centers on NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) and 238910 (Site Preparation), with additional emphasis on 237990 and 238220 for related engineering and mechanical systems. She procures services involving earthmoving, grading, erosion control, utility installation, and temporary infrastructure—critical to sustaining forest service operations and emergency response capabilities across federal lands.