Wendy Sutton

Wendy Sutton serves as a Contracting Officer Representative for the USDA Forest Service, supporting the agency’s mission to maintain and enhance forest infrastructure through strategic acquisition of site preparation and construction services. In this role, she provides critical oversight of contract performance, ensures compliance with federal procurement regulations, and acts as the primary liaison between contracting officers and field teams. Her responsibilities include monitoring contractor adherence to technical specifications, safety protocols, and environmental standards for projects involving trail and road rehabilitation, bridge work, and campground development. She handles a high volume of task orders under indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts and other simplified acquisition procedures, ensuring timely delivery of mission-critical infrastructure services across national forest lands. Wendy maintains consistent working relationships with key contractors including GCS LLC, ACME ASPHALT INDUSTRIES INC, and TwentyoneTwentyseven LLC, all of whom have demonstrated proven expertise in site preparation and earthmoving operations within sensitive ecological environments. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, requiring contractors to meet stringent quality control and scheduling benchmarks. She fosters collaborative partnerships with vendors who bring technical proficiency in erosion control, drainage installation, and grading under challenging topographic conditions, ensuring projects align with both engineering standards and environmental stewardship goals. Wendy’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued under no set-aside conditions. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her approach ensures full and open competition to secure the most technically qualified contractors for complex, high-risk infrastructure tasks. This reflects the agency’s operational need for specialized capabilities that are currently concentrated among a limited pool of experienced site prep firms. Her primary acquisition focus is on NAICS 238910—Site Preparation Contractors—where she procures services including land clearing, grubbing, excavation, compaction, and temporary road construction. She specializes in contracting for earthmoving, drainage systems, and access route development essential to forest access, recreation, and fire management operations, demonstrating deep domain expertise in civil works within federally managed wildland environments.