Sarah DeLawder

Sarah DeLawder serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, supporting the agency’s mission of ecological stewardship through strategic acquisition of goods and services essential to habitat conservation and wildlife management. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts aligned with operational needs across national wildlife refuges, including equipment maintenance, land management services, and specialized resource support. Her work directly enables field-level implementation of fire risk mitigation, invasive species control, and wildlife disease surveillance initiatives, ensuring that procurement activities align with federal environmental compliance and sustainability standards. DeLawder maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of contractors including Federal Contracts LLC, Giving Tree Capital, LLC, Hawaii Resource Group LLC, Grassland Management, LLC, and Workwear Outfitters, LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on niche service providers offering habitat restoration, wildlife habitat infrastructure, and field-ready protective gear. Her contracting patterns indicate a preference for vendors with regional expertise and proven capacity in ecological field operations, suggesting a relationship-driven approach grounded in performance history and mission alignment rather than broad-market competition. Her procurement activity is overwhelmingly non-set-aside, with 94.4% of awards issued under full and open competition, reflecting a prioritization of technical capability and operational readiness over socioeconomic preferences. Only 5.6% of awards are designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, indicating a measured, performance-based approach to small business participation rather than a structured socioeconomic targeting strategy. DeLawder’s primary NAICS focus areas include petroleum refineries (324110), cut and sew apparel contractors (315210), and commercial machinery repair (811310), revealing a unique blend of procurement needs spanning fuel logistics for field operations, durable workwear for biologists and technicians, and maintenance of heavy equipment used in land management. This technical profile underscores her expertise in acquiring mission-critical, field-deployed resources that support complex ecological operations across diverse geographies.