Scott Swanson

Scott Swanson serves as a key procurement professional within the USDA Forest Service, overseeing acquisitions critical to sustaining the nation’s forest and grassland ecosystems. He specializes in managing contracts for support activities in forestry, ensuring operational readiness across remote and rugged terrains. His responsibilities include soliciting, evaluating, and awarding services that enable ecological restoration, wildfire mitigation, invasive species control, and infrastructure resilience. Swanson’s procurement portfolio is tightly aligned with the agency’s mission to maintain forest health and emergency response capabilities, focusing on technical and field-based support services rather than capital equipment or construction. His primary contractor relationships include ACI FEDERAL INC, ONE STOP RECRUITING LLC, GONDO ROY E MD, THE LOCUMS CO, LLC, and AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC. These partnerships reflect a consistent reliance on specialized firms providing workforce solutions, medical and logistical support, and technical consulting services essential to field operations. Swanson’s contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes and mission-critical continuity, fostering long-term vendor relationships grounded in reliability and domain expertise rather than volume-driven procurement. Swanson’s contracting activity shows no use of socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic preference for selecting the most qualified providers regardless of business size or certification status, prioritizing technical capability and operational readiness over socioeconomic preferences. While small businesses are not formally targeted, their participation remains possible through open competition, and awards are awarded based on merit and compliance with performance standards. His procurement focus is exclusively on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as vegetation management, fire prevention logistics, ecological monitoring, and seasonal workforce deployment. Swanson’s expertise lies in acquiring specialized, on-the-ground support services that sustain the Forest Service’s ability to operate effectively in high-risk, low-access environments.