Mark Smith

Mark Smith serves as a Forestry Tech with the USDA Forest Service, where he plays a critical role in supporting operational readiness and ecological management across federal forest lands. His responsibilities include coordinating field-level procurement for forestry support services, ensuring that contracting activities align with mission-critical objectives such as wildfire mitigation, invasive species control, and forest health restoration. He routinely handles acquisitions under NAICS 115310 for support activities in forestry, focusing on technical services that enable field crews to maintain infrastructure, conduct prescribed burns, and implement ecological restoration protocols in remote and rugged terrain. His work directly enables the agency’s operational sustainability and emergency response capacity. Smith maintains consistent procurement relationships with specialized 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 niche service providers offering forestry labor, technical consulting, medical support for field personnel, and specialized equipment logistics. His contracting patterns emphasize agility and domain-specific expertise, often engaging vendors with proven experience in federal land management operations and seasonal workforce mobilization. All of Smith’s procurements are structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, reflecting a firm commitment to maximizing economic opportunity for small businesses in the forestry support sector. He consistently prioritizes contracting with small, locally rooted firms that bring specialized knowledge of regional ecosystems and federal land use protocols, reinforcing the Forest Service’s socioeconomic goals while enhancing service quality through community-based expertise. His primary procurement focus is NAICS 115310, encompassing support activities for forestry such as tree planting, fuel reduction, trail maintenance, and ecological monitoring. He procures labor-intensive services, technical field support, and specialized equipment operation—always with an emphasis on sustainable land stewardship and operational resilience in high-risk environments.