Ryan Burfeind

Ryan Burfeind serves as an Engineering Technician with the Superior National Forest under the U.S. Forest Service, supporting critical forest management and wildfire resilience initiatives through procurement and contract administration. In this technical role, he facilitates acquisitions aligned with ecological restoration goals, including vegetation management, fuels reduction, and infrastructure maintenance. His responsibilities include evaluating contractor capabilities, ensuring compliance with environmental and safety standards, and coordinating with field teams to translate operational needs into precise solicitation requirements. Burfeind’s work directly enables the agency’s mission to sustain forest health through proactive, science-based interventions. His primary contractor relationship is with Blue Ribbon Redevelopment Fund III LLC, a Milwaukee-based firm engaged in specialized environmental services. Burfeind consistently partners with this vendor to execute technical projects requiring expertise in forest restoration, mastication, and understory vegetation control. His contracting pattern reflects a preference for established, mission-aligned contractors with demonstrated experience in ecological stewardship and federal compliance, fostering long-term, performance-based partnerships grounded in reliability and technical proficiency. Burfeind maintains a 100% Small Business Set-Aside preference under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a strong institutional commitment to socioeconomic contracting. All acquisitions under his purview are reserved exclusively for small businesses, ensuring equitable access to federal opportunities for qualified firms. This approach reinforces the U.S. Forest Service’s broader goals of community engagement and economic development within rural and forest-adjacent economies. His procurement focus is exclusively aligned with NAICS 561720 (Janitorial Services), which, in this context, refers to specialized environmental cleaning and forest floor management services essential to wildfire mitigation. These include debris removal, slash treatment, and non-chemical vegetation control—technical services integral to maintaining fuel breaks and ecological balance. Burfeind’s expertise lies in translating ecological engineering needs into precise service specifications that ensure contractor performance meets rigorous forest health standards.