Kevin Wiltsie

Kevin Wiltsie serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Forest Service’s Stewardship Contracting Branch, supporting the agency’s mission to advance ecologically sound forest management through integrated, landscape-scale contracts. He manages acquisitions centered on sustainable forestry practices, including timber harvesting paired with ecological restoration, watershed rehabilitation, and infrastructure maintenance. His work directly enables the implementation of congressionally authorized stewardship contracting authorities under Title III of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act, ensuring that procurement aligns with long-term forest resilience goals. Wiltsie routinely handles complex, performance-based contracts that require multi-objective outcomes, blending resource extraction with environmental remediation under a single solicitation framework. He maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of specialized contractors, including Brink Brothers Inc., Peak Engineering LLC, AZ Hammer Down, LLC, Gabino D. Grano, and Gladhart LLC. These firms are recognized for their technical expertise in forest operations, heavy equipment mobilization, and ecological restoration services. Wiltsie’s procurement approach emphasizes long-term partnerships with vendors capable of executing multi-year, multi-site projects that require adaptive management and compliance with rigorous environmental standards, fostering collaboration over transactional vendor relationships. Wiltsie’s contracting portfolio is evenly split between open competition and Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, reflecting a deliberate strategy to maximize small business participation without socioeconomic set-asides like 8(a) or HUBZone. This balanced approach ensures broad competition while prioritizing firms with proven capacity in forestry support services. His consistent use of small business set-asides underscores a commitment to building a resilient, locally rooted contractor base capable of delivering on complex stewardship objectives. His procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as fuel reduction, trail maintenance, invasive species control, and forest thinning. He specializes in contracting for field-based ecological interventions that require specialized equipment, trained personnel, and adherence to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation, demonstrating deep technical expertise in the operational realities of federal forest management.