Shirlee A Harrison

Shirlee A. Harrison serves as a Contract Specialist with the USDA Forest Service–SPOC IM, where she manages the acquisition of critical infrastructure and support services essential to maintaining the nation’s forested public lands. Her role centers on executing full lifecycle contracting for construction, maintenance, and ecological support projects, including trail and road rehabilitation, bridge replacement, and campground modernization. She ensures compliance with federal procurement regulations while aligning acquisitions with the agency’s strategic goals of public safety, environmental resilience, and sustainable access to recreational and resource management areas. Harrison specializes in complex service and construction contracts requiring technical oversight and interagency coordination. She maintains consistent working relationships with key contractors including GCS LLC, ACME ASPHALT INDUSTRIES INC, and TwentyoneTwentyseven LLC, all of whom provide specialized civil works, paving, and logistics support for remote forest infrastructure projects. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes and long-term vendor partnerships, fostering reliability in delivering high-quality services under challenging environmental conditions. Harrison prioritizes contractors with demonstrated expertise in federal environmental compliance and rugged terrain operations. Harrison exhibits a strong commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with 100% of her acquisitions designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. She actively promotes opportunities for small businesses across diverse categories, ensuring broad participation from disadvantaged, veteran-owned, and community-based firms. Her consistent use of full small business set-asides reflects a deliberate strategy to strengthen local economic resilience and expand capacity within the federal contracting ecosystem. Her procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS categories including 621210 (Offices of Dentists), 561740 (Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning Services), 333992 (Welding and Soldering Equipment Manufacturing), 561710 (Exterminating and Pest Control Services), and 334310 (Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing)—indicative of a broad scope of ancillary and facility support services required to sustain remote forest service facilities. While these categories may appear non-traditional for forestry operations, they reflect her role in procuring specialized equipment and services essential to operational readiness, visitor safety, and infrastructure maintenance in isolated, federally managed locations.