Lynette Band

Lynette Band serves as a Contract Specialist for the Lolo National Forest under the U.S. Forest Service, where she manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions critical to ecological stewardship and infrastructure resilience. Her role encompasses planning, soliciting, awarding, and administering contracts that support forest management activities, including trail and road maintenance, reforestation, and facility construction. She ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning procurements with the agency’s mission to sustain healthy forest ecosystems and public safety. Lynette specializes in complex, mission-driven acquisitions that require technical expertise in land management operations and environmental compliance. Lynette maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of contractors including Quality Construction Co., YOY Inc., Century Warehousing, Inc., Oregon Woods, Inc., and the County of Kootenai. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven experience in forestry support, specialty trade contracting, and rural infrastructure development. Her procurement approach emphasizes reliability, local engagement, and technical proficiency, often awarding contracts to firms with demonstrated capacity in remote-site operations and seasonal work cycles typical of forested regions. A defining feature of Lynette’s contracting strategy is her strong commitment to small business participation, with 84.2% of her awards designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. She actively prioritizes socioeconomic programs, including HUBZone set-asides, to foster economic opportunity in underserved rural communities. Her consistent use of set-aside authorities reflects a deliberate effort to build a resilient, locally rooted vendor base capable of delivering essential services in challenging terrain. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and 115112 (Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating), followed by construction-related categories such as 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) and 238990 (All Other Specialty Trade Contractors). She routinely procures services related to trail restoration, wildfire mitigation, erosion control, and forest road maintenance, demonstrating deep technical familiarity with the operational demands of federal land management.