Sarah Silber

Sarah Silber serves as a key procurement lead within the USDA Forest Service, overseeing contracts critical to sustaining the agency’s operational readiness across remote and ecologically sensitive landscapes. She specializes in managing acquisitions that support waste management, environmental remediation, and emergency response services essential to forest health and public safety. Her work directly enables the agency’s mission to mitigate wildfire risks, control invasive species, and maintain infrastructure resilience in rugged terrain. Silber routinely handles task orders and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts under FAR Part 16, with a focus on mission-critical services that require rapid deployment and specialized technical expertise in environmental compliance and field operations. Silber maintains consistent working relationships with a select group 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 strategic reliance on firms capable of delivering specialized labor, logistical support, and environmental services tailored to federal land management needs. Her contracting patterns emphasize agile, performance-based engagements, often requiring on-call or surge capacity capabilities for emergency response and seasonal operational demands. She fosters collaborative vendor relationships grounded in compliance, responsiveness, and mission alignment. Silber demonstrates a robust commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with 100% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to maximize opportunities for small businesses, particularly those with niche expertise in environmental services and remote-area logistics. Her portfolio consistently prioritizes small business participation without reliance on other set-aside categories, reinforcing the agency’s broader goals of equitable economic opportunity and workforce development in rural and underserved communities. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 562998 — All Other Miscellaneous Waste Management Services — encompassing hazardous and non-hazardous waste handling, debris removal, fuel reduction activities, and ecological restoration support. This specialization underscores her technical domain expertise in environmental compliance, wildfire aftermath management, and sustainable land stewardship practices aligned with USDA Forest Service operational protocols.