Rick Sindt

Rick Sindt serves as a key procurement lead within the USDA Forest Service, overseeing acquisitions critical to the agency’s mission of ecological restoration, wildfire mitigation, and operational resilience in remote environments. He specializes in remediation services contracts that support hazardous substance cleanup, soil and water remediation, and invasive species control on federal lands. His procurement activities are tightly aligned with the Forest Service’s strategic priorities in environmental compliance and emergency response, ensuring that contracting actions directly enable field teams to maintain ecosystem health and public safety. Sindt routinely manages task orders and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts requiring technical expertise in environmental remediation and field-based service delivery. Sindt maintains consistent working relationships with a focused cohort 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 preference for specialized service providers with proven capabilities in environmental remediation, emergency response staffing, and technical support for field operations. His contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, requiring contractors to meet stringent environmental standards and deploy personnel capable of operating in rugged, off-grid terrains. Sindt demonstrates a full commitment to small business participation, with 100% of his acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to prioritize economically disadvantaged and locally rooted firms with expertise in environmental services, fostering regional economic development and enhancing workforce diversity within the federal contracting ecosystem. His procurement portfolio is exclusively focused on NAICS 562910—Remediation Services—encompassing soil and groundwater remediation, hazardous waste handling, debris removal, and ecological recovery operations. Sindt’s expertise lies in acquiring technical services that require compliance with EPA protocols, CERCLA standards, and state environmental regulations, ensuring that all contracted work supports the Forest Service’s long-term stewardship of national forests and grasslands.