Ron Krueger

Ron Krueger serves as a key procurement professional within the USDA Forest Service’s Csa Intermountain 5 office, overseeing contracting activities that directly support the agency’s mission of forest ecosystem restoration and operational resilience. He manages a focused portfolio of acquisitions centered on support activities for forestry, ensuring that critical services—from reforestation and wildfire mitigation to infrastructure maintenance—are procured in alignment with federal regulations and ecological priorities. His work bridges field operations with federal contracting policy, enabling the agency to execute its stewardship obligations through timely, compliant, and performance-based contracts. Krueger maintains strong, consistent relationships with a select group of primary contractors, most notably TETRA TECH, INC. and ALLIED ENGINEERING SERVICES INC., both of which provide specialized environmental engineering, ecological restoration, and forestry support services. His contracting patterns reflect a preference for long-term, performance-driven partnerships with firms possessing proven expertise in forest health management, erosion control, and habitat rehabilitation. These vendor relationships are characterized by sustained engagement, technical collaboration, and a shared commitment to ecological outcomes. He exhibits a full commitment to small business participation, directing 100% of his procurements under the Total Small Business Set-Aside authority (FAR 19.5), ensuring that all contracts are reserved exclusively for small businesses meeting SBA size standards. This consistent application underscores a deliberate strategy to cultivate capacity within the environmental services sector and promote equitable economic opportunity for small, locally rooted firms. His procurement focus is exclusively aligned with NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as seedling propagation, prescribed burning support, fuel reduction, trail maintenance, and post-fire remediation. Krueger’s expertise lies in procuring technical, field-based forestry support that demands specialized ecological knowledge, equipment, and workforce training, ensuring that contracting outcomes directly advance the Forest Service’s mission of sustainable land management.