Linsey Smith

Linsey Smith serves as a key procurement lead within the USDA Forest Service’s Csa Intermountain 9 office, managing acquisitions critical to sustaining infrastructure across national forest lands. Responsible for planning, soliciting, and awarding contracts for civil engineering and facility maintenance projects, Smith ensures compliance with federal procurement regulations while advancing the agency’s mission to preserve public access and operational resilience. Their portfolio primarily encompasses specialty trade contracting for water systems, roads, bridges, dams, and visitor facilities in remote, high-risk environments, requiring precise technical oversight and environmental stewardship. Smith’s work directly supports the Forest Service’s long-term infrastructure rehabilitation goals through strategic sourcing and risk-informed contracting practices. Smith maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of specialized contractors, including McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC, G.S. Bostic Painting LLC, and Camas Creek Contracting L.L.C. These partnerships reflect a preference for regional firms with demonstrated expertise in remote site execution, environmental compliance, and durable material application under harsh conditions. The contracting patterns indicate a reliance on experienced, locally rooted vendors capable of delivering complex, low-volume, high-impact projects with minimal oversight, fostering long-term reliability and performance-based outcomes. All procurements managed by Smith are fully set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5, reflecting a firm commitment to maximizing socioeconomic opportunities within the rural contracting community. This 100% small business set-aside strategy prioritizes local economic development and ensures that federal investments directly benefit small, independent contractors with proven capacity in forest service environments. No other set-aside categories are utilized, underscoring a deliberate focus on broad small business inclusion over targeted programs. The agency’s procurement activity is exclusively aligned with NAICS 238990, All Other Specialty Trade Contractors, indicating a narrow but deep technical focus on non-residential, site-specific construction services. Smith’s acquisitions target specialized trades such as concrete repair, erosion control, structural painting, dam rehabilitation, and trail construction—domains requiring niche skills, equipment, and familiarity with USDA environmental standards and wildland interface constraints.