Mary Fields

Mary Fields serves as a key procurement lead within the USDA Forest Service, overseeing contracts critical to sustaining the nation’s forest and grassland ecosystems. She manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions centered on ecological restoration, wildfire mitigation, and operational support in remote environments. Her work ensures the agency maintains readiness for emergency response, infrastructure resilience, and resource management activities across federal lands. Fields specializes in mission-critical services that bridge field operations with administrative support, frequently handling task orders under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) vehicles and simplified acquisition procedures to meet urgent and long-term operational needs. She maintains consistent partnerships with specialized vendors including ACI FEDERAL INC for forestry support services, ONE STOP RECRUITING LLC for workforce staffing, GONDO ROY E MD for medical and emergency response personnel, THE LOCUMS CO, LLC for temporary clinical and field health services, and AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC for technical and logistical solutions. These relationships reflect a pattern of engaging niche, mission-aligned contractors capable of delivering rapid, scalable support in austere conditions, often under time-sensitive or contingency-based requirements. Fields demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, with 100% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. She consistently prioritizes small business eligibility, ensuring contracts are awarded to firms certified under standard socioeconomic programs, reinforcing the agency’s mandate to foster economic opportunity in rural and underserved communities. Her procurement focus is evenly split between NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), encompassing vegetation management, invasive species control, and forest health services, and NAICS 722310 (Food Service Contractors), which supports field crews, fire teams, and remote outposts. This dual specialization underscores her expertise in sustaining both ecological and human operational readiness across the Forest Service’s vast and varied landscape.