Margaret Cisco

Margaret Cisco serves as a key procurement lead within the U.S. Forest Service’s Region 3 Southwestern Regional Office, overseeing the acquisition of critical infrastructure and environmental services essential to public land stewardship. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts focused on civil works, facility maintenance, and environmental compliance, ensuring alignment with the agency’s mission to sustain forest infrastructure, including trails, roads, water systems, and visitor facilities. Her procurement activities center on engineering services, construction materials, and waste management solutions that support long-term ecological resilience and public access. Cisco maintains a strong working relationship with GERMRIP LLC, a primary contractor delivering fabricated wire products, stone materials, and heavy-gauge metal tanks used in trail construction, erosion control, and water infrastructure. Her contracting approach emphasizes collaborative vendor partnerships grounded in technical precision and regulatory compliance, often engaging firms with specialized expertise in forest service-specific applications such as rustic infrastructure and environmental mitigation systems. She demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, directing 100% of her procurements toward total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a strategic emphasis on empowering local and regionally based vendors, fostering economic development in rural communities while ensuring responsive, high-quality service delivery aligned with federal socioeconomic goals. Her procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS categories including 332618 (fabricated wire products), 327991 (cut stone and stone products), 332420 (heavy-gauge metal tank manufacturing), and environmental services under 562111 and 562211. These reflect deep technical expertise in sourcing durable, site-specific materials for trail construction, erosion control structures, and hazardous and solid waste handling systems critical to maintaining forest ecosystem integrity and public safety.