Leslie Corpening

Leslie Corpening serves as a Supervisory Contract Specialist within the USDA Forest Service, overseeing the acquisition of critical services and infrastructure support essential to the agency’s mission of managing national forests and grasslands. In this leadership role, she ensures compliance with federal procurement regulations while guiding complex contracting actions that enable ecological restoration, wildfire mitigation, and operational readiness in remote terrains. Her portfolio primarily encompasses engineering construction and scientific consulting services, requiring technical expertise in environmental compliance, risk management, and performance-based contracting. She plays a pivotal role in aligning acquisition strategy with the Forest Service’s strategic priorities, ensuring timely and lawful delivery of mission-critical resources. Corpening maintains consistent working relationships with key contractors including ACI FEDERAL INC, ONE STOP RECRUITING LLC, GONDO ROY E MD, THE LOCUMS CO, LLC, and AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC. These partnerships reflect a reliance on specialized firms capable of delivering heavy civil engineering solutions, workforce staffing, medical support, and technical consulting services tailored to federal land management operations. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance outcomes, clear statement of work development, and rigorous vendor evaluation to ensure contractor accountability in high-stakes, often hazardous environments. Her procurement activity is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on maximizing competition among qualified vendors rather than socioeconomic set-asides, prioritizing capability, capacity, and mission alignment over socioeconomic categorization. While small business participation is not formally targeted through set-asides, her team evaluates all proposals based on technical merit and past performance, ensuring equitable access for all eligible vendors. Corpening’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction) and 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services), underscoring her specialization in infrastructure resilience projects and applied ecological science. She procures services such as trail and road construction, erosion control, invasive species management systems, and field-based environmental assessments, requiring deep domain knowledge in federal land use regulations and technical engineering standards.