Marshall Randol, Forest Service Representative FSR

Marshall Randol serves as a Forest Service Representative for the Stewardship Contracting Branch of the U.S. Forest Service, where he plays a pivotal role in advancing landscape-scale ecological restoration through strategic procurement. He facilitates the execution of stewardship contracts that integrate timber harvesting with habitat restoration, watershed protection, and infrastructure maintenance to enhance forest resilience and reduce wildfire risk. His acquisitions are primarily performance-based, multi-year agreements designed to achieve long-term ecological outcomes while generating renewable forest products. Randol’s work aligns directly with the agency’s mission to promote sustainable forest management through collaborative, results-driven contracting that balances environmental, economic, and social objectives. Randol maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of contractors experienced in forestry operations and ecological restoration, including BRINK BROTHERS INC., PEAK ENGINEERING LLC, AZ HAMMER DOWN, LLC, GABINO D GRANO, and GLADHART LLC. These vendors are selected for their technical expertise in timber harvesting, fuel reduction, road maintenance, and stream restoration—capabilities critical to implementing complex stewardship contracts. His procurement approach emphasizes proven performance, operational reliability, and on-the-ground ecological knowledge, fostering long-term partnerships grounded in mutual accountability and shared conservation goals. Randol’s contracting activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. While he does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, his procurement strategy is guided by technical capability and capacity to deliver large-scale, landscape-level outcomes. This reflects the specialized nature of stewardship contracting, where project complexity and operational scale often necessitate experienced, non-traditional forestry contractors rather than small business preferences. His procurement focus is exclusively on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as prescribed burning, mechanical thinning, erosion control, and forest road rehabilitation. Randol’s expertise lies in structuring performance-based contracts that incentivize ecological outcomes over output metrics, ensuring that all work aligns with science-based forest management plans and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements.