Mary A Szymoniak

Mary A. Szymoniak serves as Branch Chief – Incident Business Practices within the USDA Forest Service, where she leads the procurement strategy for emergency response, wildfire suppression, and forest health operations. In this critical role, she oversees the acquisition of specialized services and support systems essential to maintaining operational readiness across remote and high-risk federal lands. Her portfolio encompasses incident management, personnel deployment, logistical coordination, and ecological restoration support, ensuring timely and compliant contracting to meet urgent mission needs during fire seasons and environmental crises. She is a key liaison between field operations and procurement teams, aligning acquisition timelines with dynamic incident response requirements. Szymoniak maintains consistent partnerships with a focused group of contractors, including ACI FEDERAL INC, ONE STOP RECRUITING LLC, GONDO ROY E MD, THE LOCUMS CO, LLC, and AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC. These vendors provide specialized staffing, medical support, incident command systems, and technical services tailored to the unique demands of federal wildfire and forest management operations. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for experienced, mission-aligned providers with proven capabilities in remote-area logistics, emergency medical response, and forestry support services, fostering long-term, performance-based relationships grounded in reliability and regulatory compliance. Szymoniak’s procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on rapid mobilization and access to the broadest possible pool of qualified vendors during time-sensitive incident responses, prioritizing capability and speed over socioeconomic preferences. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, all acquisitions adhere to federal procurement regulations and ensure fair and transparent competition. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 115310 – Support Activities for Forestry, encompassing contract services such as fire crew deployment, equipment maintenance, vegetation management, and incident logistics coordination. She specializes in acquiring mission-critical support functions that sustain the Forest Service’s operational capacity in rugged, inaccessible terrain, demonstrating deep technical expertise in the intersection of emergency management and ecological resource support.