Laura Bloom

Laura Bloom serves as a key procurement lead within the R1 Regional Office of the U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, where she manages acquisitions critical to sustaining forest infrastructure and operational readiness across remote and ecologically sensitive landscapes. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of contracting for essential services that support forest health, public safety, and facility maintenance, with a focus on ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and environmental stewardship goals. She routinely handles service-based contracts for maintenance, sanitation, land management, and vehicle support, aligning procurement outcomes with the agency’s mission to preserve natural resources while enabling safe public access. Bloom maintains collaborative relationships with a diverse pool of local and regional vendors, particularly small businesses with specialized expertise in environmental services and rural infrastructure support. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for long-term, performance-based partnerships that ensure continuity of operations in challenging terrain. She works closely with contractors capable of delivering responsive, on-site services under variable weather and access conditions, emphasizing reliability, environmental compliance, and workforce localism. Her procurement strategy is uniformly oriented toward small business participation, with 100% of her acquisitions set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate and consistent commitment to socioeconomic equity, ensuring that contracting opportunities directly benefit local economies and disadvantaged business enterprises. She actively prioritizes firms certified under HUBZone, SDVOSB, and other small business programs, fostering resilient, community-based supply chains. Her primary procurement focus centers on NAICS codes related to janitorial services, landscaping, septic system maintenance, soil preparation, and automotive repair—all vital to sustaining remote forest facilities and visitor infrastructure. She possesses deep technical familiarity with environmental service delivery, low-impact maintenance protocols, and the unique logistical demands of operating in protected and isolated federal lands.