Monica Gallegos

Monica Gallegos serves as a Procurement Technician for the USDA Forest Service, supporting the agency’s mission to sustain national forest and grassland ecosystems through strategic acquisition of critical services and infrastructure support. In her role, she facilitates the execution of procurement actions for operational readiness, ecological restoration, and emergency response initiatives across remote and rugged terrains. Her responsibilities include preparing solicitation documents, coordinating with technical stakeholders, ensuring regulatory compliance under the FAR, and managing the contract lifecycle for a diverse portfolio of services ranging from forestry support to civil engineering construction. She plays a vital link between field operations and contractor performance, ensuring timely delivery of mission-critical resources. Monica maintains consistent working relationships with a select 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 partnerships reflect a focus on specialized labor support, technical consulting, and niche engineering services essential to forest management operations. Her procurement approach emphasizes reliability, compliance, and performance accountability, fostering long-term vendor collaboration grounded in clear scope definition and performance-based outcomes. Her procurement patterns demonstrate a strong commitment to socioeconomic goals, with 93.7% of her awards structured as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to prioritize small business participation, ensuring that contracting opportunities directly benefit small, locally rooted firms capable of delivering responsive, on-the-ground support. She consistently aligns acquisitions with small business programs, reinforcing the Forest Service’s mandate to foster economic resilience in rural and forest-dependent communities. Monica’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), which dominates her portfolio, followed by heavy civil engineering construction under 237990 and 237310. She procures services such as wildfire mitigation support, invasive species control, trail and road maintenance, erosion control, and forest infrastructure repair. Her technical expertise centers on field-based operational support, ensuring acquisitions meet the unique logistical and environmental demands of managing federal lands.