Matthew Plattes

Matthew Plattes serves as a key procurement lead within the Dakota Prairie Grasslands, part of the U.S. Forest Service under the Department of Agriculture, where he manages acquisitions critical to sustaining public land infrastructure. His responsibilities include planning, soliciting, and awarding contracts for nonresidential property leasing and related support services that enable operational continuity across remote grassland and forested sites. Plattes focuses on securing facilities and land-use agreements that support ranger stations, visitor centers, maintenance depots, and administrative offices essential to ecological stewardship and public recreation access. His procurement activity is tightly aligned with the agency’s mission to maintain resilient civil infrastructure in fragile Northern Plains ecosystems. Plattes maintains a consistent working relationship with SIMCO VENTURES LM LLC, the primary contractor engaged for nonresidential leasing and facility management services. His contracting pattern reflects a preference for long-term, performance-based agreements with this vendor, indicating a trusted partnership built on reliability in property management, maintenance coordination, and compliance with federal land-use regulations. The relationship is characterized by repeat engagements and minimal competition, suggesting a high degree of alignment between vendor capabilities and the agency’s operational needs in remote, low-density environments. Plattes does not utilize socioeconomic set-asides; all awards are issued under full and open competition, with 100% of contracts awarded without restriction based on 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other small business designations. This reflects a strategic focus on securing specialized facility services where qualified small business capacity is limited, prioritizing mission-critical outcomes over socioeconomic preferences. His procurement activity is exclusively concentrated in NAICS 531120—Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings (except Miniwarehouses)—indicating deep expertise in real property leasing, land use agreements, and facility management for federal operations. Plattes specializes in acquiring leased spaces that support ranger operations, visitor services, and maintenance logistics in ecologically sensitive areas, demonstrating technical fluency in federal land-use law, lease administration, and infrastructure sustainability standards.