Terri L Ott

Terri L. Ott serves as a key procurement professional within the USDA Forest Service, overseeing acquisitions critical to the agency’s mission of sustaining national forest and grassland ecosystems. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts focused on ecological restoration, wildfire mitigation, and infrastructure resilience in remote and rugged environments. Her work ensures operational readiness through the timely procurement of specialized services and construction support, aligning with the Forest Service’s strategic priorities in forest health, emergency response, and public safety. Ott routinely handles complex, mission-critical procurements under FAR Part 19 small business set-asides, ensuring compliance with federal socioeconomic objectives while maintaining rigorous standards for performance and accountability. She maintains established working relationships with a select group of contractors specializing in forestry support, civil engineering, and surveying services, 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 pattern of sustained engagement with firms capable of delivering technical expertise in forest management, workforce staffing, and field-based engineering solutions. Ott’s contracting approach emphasizes reliability, niche capability, and proven performance in challenging operational environments. A strong advocate for small business participation, Ott consistently prioritizes Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, with over 71% of her awards designated for small businesses. She also actively supports HUBZone contractors, reflecting a deliberate commitment to economic development in underserved rural communities. Her socioeconomic contracting patterns demonstrate alignment with federal goals to expand opportunity while enhancing the agency’s access to agile, locally rooted service providers. Her procurement focus centers on NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), which accounts for more than half of her portfolio, followed by heavy civil engineering and highway construction under NAICS 237990 and 237310. She regularly acquires services related to trail maintenance, erosion control, wildfire fuel reduction, and land surveying, demonstrating deep technical familiarity with field-based environmental operations and infrastructure development on federal lands.