Tanya Torres

Tanya Torres serves as the primary contracting lead for the USDA Forest Service’s CSA Southwest 6 office, overseeing the acquisition of critical civil infrastructure projects across national forests and grasslands in the Southwest. Responsible for managing full lifecycle procurements, she ensures compliance with federal contracting regulations while advancing the agency’s mission of public safety, ecological resilience, and sustainable access to federal lands. Her portfolio centers on heavy civil construction, transportation, and water infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on timely, mission-critical repairs and rehabilitation of roads, bridges, water systems, and related facilities. Torres maintains consistent, long-term partnerships with a core group of qualified contractors, including Jilk Heavy Construction, Inc., MWC Group, Inc., Herback General Engineering LLC, JD General Engineering Corp, and White Bear Construction, Inc. These relationships reflect a preference for experienced firms with proven expertise in heavy civil engineering and specialty trade work. Her procurement approach prioritizes performance-based outcomes, leveraging past performance evaluations and technical capability assessments to ensure contractor readiness for complex, high-risk environments. She maintains a 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside policy across all procurements, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to socioeconomic contracting goals under FAR 19.5. This strategy ensures that small businesses—particularly those certified under HUBZone, SDB, and other small business programs—have equitable access to federal construction opportunities. Her contracting patterns reflect a deliberate effort to build capacity within the regional small business community while fostering competition and innovation. Her technical focus is concentrated in NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction), which accounts for over half of her acquisitions, followed by 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction) and 238160 (Roofing Contractors). She specializes in procuring services involving earthwork, drainage systems, pavement rehabilitation, and structural repairs, requiring deep familiarity with DOT and FS engineering standards. Her expertise lies in managing complex, multi-disciplinary construction projects under challenging environmental and logistical conditions.