Valerie Hogan

Valerie Hogan serves as a Contracting Officer’s Representative for the USDA Forest Service, providing critical oversight and technical expertise on federal contracts supporting forest health, wildfire mitigation, and infrastructure resilience in remote and rugged terrains. In this role, she ensures contractor performance aligns with mission-critical objectives, including ecological restoration, invasive species control, and emergency response readiness. She works closely with contracting officers to monitor compliance, evaluate deliverables, and enforce contract specifications for site preparation and land management activities. Her procurement focus is exclusively on field-based construction and land disturbance services essential to maintaining the operational integrity of federal forest lands. Valerie Hogan maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of specialized contractors, including ACI Federal Inc., ONE STOP RECRUITING LLC, GONDO ROY E MD, THE LOCUMS CO, LLC, and AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC. These partnerships are primarily centered on site preparation, land clearing, and logistical support services tailored to the unique challenges of federal forest environments. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for established vendors with demonstrated experience in federal land management, environmental compliance, and rugged terrain operations. She fosters collaborative, performance-driven relationships that prioritize safety, regulatory adherence, and timely execution under demanding field conditions. Valerie Hogan’s procurement portfolio reflects a 100% no set-aside preference, indicating a focus on open competition rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. While she does not prioritize small business set-asides, her contracting decisions are driven by technical capability, past performance, and the ability to meet stringent operational requirements in high-risk environments. Her approach emphasizes mission-critical outcomes over socioeconomic targets, ensuring that contracts are awarded to firms best equipped to deliver complex site preparation services under challenging conditions. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 238910—Site Preparation Contractors—encompassing land clearing, grubbing, excavation, and grading activities essential to firebreak construction, trail development, and ecological restoration projects. She specializes in acquiring services that support forest health initiatives, including fuel reduction, erosion control, and infrastructure reinforcement in wildfire-prone zones. Her technical domain expertise lies in understanding the intersection of environmental regulations, geotechnical constraints, and operational logistics unique to federal forest lands.