Martin Chavez

Martin Chavez serves as a key procurement lead within the USDA Forest Service’s Csa Intermountain 5 office, overseeing contract actions essential to sustaining national forest ecosystems. He manages acquisitions aligned with the agency’s mission of ecological restoration, wildfire resilience, and infrastructure maintenance, with a primary focus on support activities for forestry operations. His portfolio includes contracts for reforestation, erosion control, trail rehabilitation, and fuel reduction services, ensuring that field-level environmental stewardship is enabled through timely and compliant procurement. Chavez operates within the Federal Acquisition Regulation framework to deliver mission-critical services while upholding federal accountability standards. His contracting activity is heavily concentrated with TETRA TECH, INC. and ALLIED ENGINEERING SERVICES INC., both of which provide specialized environmental engineering, ecological restoration, and forestry support services. These long-standing vendor partnerships reflect a preference for firms with proven technical expertise in forest health interventions, habitat remediation, and operational logistics in remote terrain. Chavez consistently engages these contractors for complex, multi-year task orders requiring site-specific ecological assessments and compliance with NEPA and ESA requirements. Chavez maintains a strict 100% Small Business Set-Aside posture under FAR 19.5, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to socioeconomic contracting goals. All procurements are reserved exclusively for small businesses, prioritizing firms with demonstrated capability in forestry support services. This approach fosters regional economic development and ensures that contracting opportunities directly benefit local, community-based enterprises with intimate knowledge of Intermountain West ecosystems. His procurement focus is singularly aligned with NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as tree planting, invasive species management, prescribed burn support, and forest road maintenance. He specializes in acquiring field-level operational support rather than capital infrastructure, ensuring that contracting efforts directly translate into on-the-ground ecological outcomes. His domain expertise lies in the intersection of environmental science, land management, and federal acquisition policy.