Kyle Personett

Kyle Personett serves as a procurement specialist within the Stewardship Contracting Branch of the U.S. Forest Service, supporting the agency’s mission to advance landscape-scale ecological restoration through strategic contracting. He manages acquisitions aligned with sustainable forest management, integrating timber harvesting with watershed protection, wildfire risk reduction, and infrastructure maintenance. His portfolio primarily consists of stewardship contracts under Title 16, U.S.C. § 2104, which enable performance-based, multi-objective agreements that link resource removal with ecological restoration outcomes. Personett routinely handles complex, long-term contracts requiring coordinated execution across multiple work elements, ensuring compliance with federal environmental and procurement regulations while fostering collaborative outcomes with private partners. He maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of experienced contractors including Brink Brothers Inc., Peak Engineering LLC, Miller Timber Services, Inc., Az Hammer Down, LLC, and Dennis Kirby, all of whom specialize in forestry support services and ecological restoration execution. These partnerships are characterized by repeated engagement across multiple contract actions, reflecting a preference for proven technical capability and operational reliability in remote, high-risk environments. Personett prioritizes vendors with demonstrated expertise in forest thinning, fuel reduction, road maintenance, and stream restoration, fostering a stable contractor base capable of delivering integrated resource management outcomes. Personett’s contracting approach reflects a strong emphasis on small business participation, with approximately 25% of awards structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, while the majority of procurements remain open to all competitors. He does not routinely utilize specialized socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, instead favoring broad small business eligibility to ensure competitive, capable vendor participation in stewardship contracting. His procurement activities are exclusively focused on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as mechanical fuel reduction, silvicultural treatments, erosion control, and forest road construction and maintenance. This deep specialization ensures that all acquisitions are technically aligned with the Forest Service’s ecological restoration objectives and field operational requirements.