Kay A Matthews

Kay A. Matthews serves as a Contract Specialist within the USDA Forest Service (Agency Code: 1282A7), responsible for managing the full lifecycle of procurement actions that support the agency’s mission of ecological stewardship and infrastructure resilience. She specializes in acquiring professional, administrative, and technical services critical to forest management, including consulting, personnel support, and nursery operations. Her work directly enables wildfire mitigation, trail maintenance, and facility operations across national forests and grasslands, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and strategic sustainability goals. Matthews routinely handles competitive solicitations under FAR Part 15 and negotiates task orders under IDIQ contracts to meet dynamic operational needs. Her primary contractor relationships include ACI FEDERAL INC, ONE STOP RECRUITING LLC, GONDO ROY E MD, THE LOCUMS CO, LLC, and AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, reflecting a balanced mix of specialized service providers in healthcare staffing, technical consulting, and federal support services. She cultivates long-term vendor partnerships grounded in performance accountability and regulatory compliance, often leveraging blanket purchase agreements and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to ensure agile response to field-level requirements. Matthews demonstrates a strong commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with over 61% of her awards designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. Her procurement strategy consistently prioritizes small business participation, aligning with the Forest Service’s goal to expand economic opportunity for disadvantaged entrepreneurs while maintaining high standards of service delivery. She actively promotes vendor diversity and ensures compliance with small business certification requirements. Her procurement focus centers on NAICS codes 561110 (Office Administrative Services), 541690 (Scientific and Technical Consulting), 611310 (Higher Education Services), 541219 (Other Accounting Services), and 111421 (Nursery and Tree Production). This reflects expertise in securing administrative support, ecological consulting, workforce training, and native plant materials essential to habitat restoration and reforestation initiatives.