LeeAnne Kachmarsky

LeeAnne Kachmarsky serves as a Procurement Counselor for the USDA Forest Service’s Incident Procurement unit, where she provides expert legal and regulatory guidance on emergency and time-sensitive acquisitions critical to wildland fire response and all-hazard incident management. In this role, she ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while facilitating rapid procurement of essential logistical and operational resources—including mobile command units, heavy equipment, water systems, and temporary housing—to support incident management teams across national forests and grasslands. Her work is foundational to the agency’s mission of ensuring immediate access to mission-critical services during high-stakes, time-constrained emergencies. Kachmarsky collaborates closely with a dynamic network of contractors specializing in incident support services, including firms with expertise in emergency logistics, temporary infrastructure deployment, and forestry operations support. She cultivates strategic vendor partnerships with organizations capable of mobilizing rapidly under dynamic field conditions, prioritizing reliability, scalability, and regulatory compliance. Her working relationships are characterized by proactive engagement, clear communication of operational needs, and a focus on pre-qualified vendors with proven incident response capabilities. Her procurement activity reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-aside designations, indicating a focus on maximizing responsiveness and vendor capacity rather than socioeconomic preferences. While she does not prioritize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her approach ensures broad access for qualified firms capable of meeting urgent operational demands. Kachmarsky’s procurement focus is exclusively centered on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as fire suppression support, incident logistics, equipment mobilization, and temporary facility management. She possesses deep technical expertise in the operational requirements of wildland firefighting and incident command systems, ensuring that all procurements align with the unique, high-tempo needs of field-based emergency response teams.