Sarah Bickerdyke

Sarah Bickerdyke serves as a key procurement professional within the USDA Forest Service’s Csa Intermountain 3 office, responsible for managing acquisitions that support ecological stewardship and infrastructure resilience across remote forest landscapes. She specializes in environmental consulting services aligned with the agency’s mission to restore forest ecosystems, enhance wildfire resilience, and maintain public land accessibility. Her procurement portfolio centers on technical services that inform land management decisions, including ecological assessments, environmental compliance, and habitat restoration planning. Bickerdyke ensures acquisitions align with federal contracting regulations and agency strategic priorities, bridging scientific needs with compliant procurement practices. Her contractor relationships are exclusively with small businesses, reflecting a deliberate and consistent focus on socioeconomic contracting. She partners with environmental consulting firms certified under small business programs, fostering long-term collaborations with vendors possessing specialized expertise in forest ecology, hydrology, and environmental impact analysis. These partnerships are characterized by iterative engagement, technical collaboration, and a shared commitment to sustainable land management outcomes. Bickerdyke maintains a 100% Small Business Set-Aside preference under FAR 19.5, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to expanding economic opportunity for small businesses in the environmental services sector. She prioritizes contracting with firms certified as small businesses under the SBA’s size standards, ensuring broad participation across diverse ownership structures. Her approach reinforces the Forest Service’s mandate to leverage federal procurement as a tool for community resilience and economic inclusion in rural and underserved regions. Her primary procurement focus is NAICS 541620—Environmental Consulting Services—encompassing ecological monitoring, wildfire risk modeling, trail and bridge environmental assessments, and restoration design. She routinely procures technical analyses, GIS mapping, biological surveys, and compliance documentation critical to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) processes. Bickerdyke’s expertise lies in acquiring science-driven, field-based services that directly inform forest planning and resource management decisions across high-use and ecologically sensitive landscapes.