Kirsten Green

Kirsten Green serves as a Contract Specialist within the DSC Contracting Services Division of the National Park Service, where she manages the acquisition of critical infrastructure services essential to preserving and modernizing the nation’s protected lands. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, awarding, and administering contracts for environmental restoration, historic preservation, and utility system upgrades across ecologically sensitive and remote park sites. She specializes in complex, mission-critical procurements that require technical expertise in civil engineering, ecological compliance, and sustainable construction practices, ensuring all acquisitions align with federal environmental and historic preservation statutes. Green maintains long-standing relationships with leading engineering and construction firms including AECOM Technical Services, Inc., Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Inc., HDR Engineering Inc., and McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for firms with demonstrated capability in infrastructure rehabilitation, water and sewer system modernization, and forestry support services. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, clear scope definition, and rigorous contractor performance monitoring to ensure outcomes meet NPS standards for durability and environmental stewardship. Her contracting patterns reflect a balanced commitment to socioeconomic goals, with approximately half of her acquisitions set aside exclusively for small businesses under FAR 19.5, and the other half awarded as full and open competitions. While she does not prioritize specific socioeconomic categories like 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, her consistent use of small business set-asides demonstrates a strong institutional commitment to fostering competition and expanding opportunities for qualified small contractors in the federal environmental services sector. Green’s procurement focus is exclusively aligned with NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—reflecting her deep specialization in ecological restoration, invasive species management, trail and access infrastructure, and forest health initiatives. She procures services ranging from vegetation management and erosion control to habitat rehabilitation and wildfire mitigation support, requiring contractors with field expertise in natural resource management and federal land use regulations.