Randy Blount

Randy Blount serves as a key procurement professional within the USDA Forest Service, overseeing acquisitions critical to maintaining operational readiness across the nation’s forest and grassland systems. His responsibilities center on securing specialized maintenance and repair services for commercial and industrial machinery used in remote, rugged environments—including forestry equipment, wildfire suppression systems, and field infrastructure. He plays a vital role in ensuring the agency’s technical assets remain mission-ready, aligning procurement decisions with strategic priorities in ecological restoration, emergency response, and infrastructure resilience. His acquisitions are predominantly service-based, focused on sustaining complex mechanical systems under demanding field conditions. Blount maintains consistent relationships with a select group of contractors specializing in industrial equipment repair and maintenance, 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 preference for niche vendors with proven expertise in heavy machinery servicing, field-based technical support, and labor-intensive maintenance operations tailored to federal land management needs. His contracting patterns indicate a reliance on vendors capable of rapid mobilization and on-site service delivery in isolated locations, often under time-sensitive operational demands. All of Blount’s procurements are structured under a 100% small business set-aside designation, demonstrating a firm commitment to socioeconomic contracting goals under FAR 19.5. He consistently awards contracts to small businesses, including those certified as 8(a), HUBZone, or service-disabled veteran-owned, ensuring that federal procurement dollars directly support local and mission-aligned enterprises with the technical capacity to serve remote federal lands. His procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 811310—Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance. This specialization underscores his deep domain expertise in sustaining heavy-duty mechanical systems essential to forest service operations, from chain saws and logging equipment to mobile command units and wildfire suppression machinery. His work ensures that critical infrastructure remains functional in the most challenging environmental conditions.