Nneka Zuniga

Nneka Zuniga serves as a Procurement Technician for the USDA Forest Service – Spoc East, supporting the agency’s mission to maintain and modernize critical infrastructure across federal forest lands. In this role, she manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions for support activities essential to forestry operations, including facility maintenance, environmental services, and infrastructure rehabilitation. Her work ensures timely and compliant acquisition of goods and services that sustain forest ecosystems, enhance public access, and support operational resilience. Nneka handles a high volume of simplified acquisitions, purchase orders, and small business set-asides under FAR Part 13 and Part 19, ensuring alignment with agency priorities and federal contracting regulations. While specific contractor names are not available, Nneka consistently engages with a dynamic network of small businesses specializing in forestry support services. Her procurement patterns reflect a collaborative, relationship-driven approach, fostering partnerships with vendors who demonstrate technical proficiency in forest land management, vegetation control, and facility upkeep. She works closely with contractors to ensure compliance with environmental standards and performance metrics, promoting accountability and service quality across the supply chain. Nneka maintains a 100% Small Business Set-Aside preference across all her procurement actions, fully embracing the Federal Acquisition Regulation’s commitment to socioeconomic equity. She actively prioritizes contracts set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5, ensuring that every acquisition opportunity supports the growth of small, disadvantaged, and locally rooted enterprises. Her consistent application of set-asides reinforces the Forest Service’s broader goal of building economic resilience in rural and forest-dependent communities. Her technical focus is exclusively on NAICS 115310 — Support Activities for Forestry — encompassing services such as wildfire prevention support, forest trail maintenance, invasive species control, and forest infrastructure upkeep. Nneka’s expertise lies in procuring specialized labor, equipment, and technical services that directly enable sustainable forest management and ecological stewardship, making her a key enabler of the agency’s environmental and operational objectives.