Rhonda Stewart

Rhonda Stewart serves as a key procurement lead within the Lincoln National Forest, part of the U.S. Forest Service under the Department of Agriculture, where she manages contracting activities essential to sustainable forest stewardship. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, and awarding contracts that support ecological restoration, wildfire risk reduction, and infrastructure maintenance across the forest’s jurisdiction. She specializes in acquisitions for forestry support services, including vegetation management, trail and road construction, and habitat enhancement projects, ensuring compliance with federal procurement regulations and agency land management objectives. Her work directly enables the implementation of the Forest Service’s mission to maintain resilient forest ecosystems through targeted, mission-aligned contracting. While specific contractor names are not publicly available, Rhonda Stewart cultivates partnerships with a diverse range of vendors specializing in ecological services, forestry equipment maintenance, and land management support. She works closely with firms offering technical expertise in prescribed burning, invasive species control, and forest health monitoring, fostering long-term vendor relationships grounded in performance accountability and environmental compliance. Her procurement approach emphasizes reliability, technical competence, and adherence to federal environmental standards, ensuring contractors deliver services that align with ecological restoration goals. Rhonda demonstrates a strong commitment to small business participation, with approximately half of her procurements structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This balanced approach—equal parts set-aside and open competition—reflects a deliberate strategy to expand economic opportunity for small, locally based enterprises while maintaining competitive rigor. Her contracting patterns consistently prioritize socioeconomic programs, including those supporting service-disabled veteran-owned, HUBZone, and women-owned small businesses, reinforcing the agency’s broader equity and resilience objectives. Her procurement focus is exclusively centered on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as timber harvesting support, fuel reduction, erosion control, and forest inventory systems. She specializes in acquiring field-based ecological services and technical consulting that directly support on-the-ground land management, demonstrating deep domain expertise in sustainable forestry practices and federal environmental compliance frameworks.