Katherine Pasini

Katherine Pasini serves as a Contract Specialist with the USDA Forest Service, where she plays a pivotal role in executing mission-critical acquisitions that support forest health, wildfire mitigation, and infrastructure resilience across federal lands. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, focusing on procurement planning, solicitation development, source selection, and contract administration. Her work directly enables operational readiness in remote and rugged terrains by securing essential services and specialized resources aligned with the agency’s ecological restoration and emergency response priorities. Pasini maintains consistent working relationships with key contractors including ACI FEDERAL INC, ONE STOP RECRUITING LLC, GONDO ROY E MD, THE LOCUMS CO, LLC, and AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC. These partnerships span workforce support, technical consulting, medical services, and specialized logistics, reflecting a blend of professional services and niche supply chain needs. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes and vendor accountability, fostering long-term collaborations with firms capable of delivering mission-critical capabilities under challenging field conditions. Her procurement strategy demonstrates a strong commitment to socioeconomic programs, with nearly two-thirds of her awards structured as small business set-asides—primarily Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5 and HUBZone Set-Asides. This reflects a deliberate emphasis on expanding economic opportunity for small, disadvantaged firms while ensuring access to qualified vendors capable of meeting the Forest Service’s unique operational demands. Pasini’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), encompassing wildfire prevention, invasive species control, and forest management services. She also routinely procures highway and bridge construction (237310), petroleum logistics (424720), and fabricated metal components (332312), demonstrating technical expertise in infrastructure and field-support supply chains critical to sustaining operations in national forests and grasslands.