Lorrie Olson

Lorrie Olson serves as a key procurement professional within the USDA Forest Service, supporting mission-critical acquisitions that advance forest health, wildfire resilience, and operational readiness across federal lands. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts focused on specialized hardware, heavy machinery, and technical services essential to remote field operations. Her work directly enables the agency’s strategic priorities in ecological restoration, infrastructure maintenance, and emergency response, ensuring that procurement aligns with federal land management objectives and operational timelines in rugged, often inaccessible terrain. Olson maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of 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 blend of specialized engineering support, staffing solutions for technical roles, and manufacturing capabilities tailored to the unique demands of federal land management. Her contracting patterns emphasize reliability, technical specificity, and rapid response capacity, particularly for mission-essential equipment and personnel services required in high-risk environments. She demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, with 100% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to foster economic opportunity among qualified small firms while ensuring access to agile, innovative vendors capable of meeting the Forest Service’s niche requirements. Her contracting approach prioritizes socioeconomic equity without compromising operational effectiveness. Her procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 332510 (Hardware Manufacturing) and 333120 (Construction Machinery Manufacturing), indicating deep expertise in sourcing ruggedized equipment, forestry machinery, and field-deployable hardware designed for extreme conditions. She routinely procures specialized tools, mechanical systems, and support components critical to wildfire suppression, trail maintenance, and invasive species control operations, demonstrating technical fluency in industrial and field-engineering domains.