Zach Hiedeman

Zac Hiedeman serves as a secondary procurement specialist within the Csa Intermountain 9 USDA-FS, supporting the U.S. Forest Service’s mission to maintain and rehabilitate critical infrastructure across national forest lands. He facilitates acquisitions for civil engineering and facility maintenance projects, including water systems, roads, bridges, dams, and visitor facilities essential to public access and operational resilience. While not the lead contracting officer, Hiedeman plays a vital role in coordinating requirements, evaluating technical proposals, and ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations. His work directly enables the agency’s focus on sustainable, long-term infrastructure stewardship in remote and ecologically sensitive environments. Hiedeman regularly collaborates with a core group of regional contractors, including McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC, G.S. Bostic Painting LLC, and Camas Creek Contracting L.L.C., all of which possess proven expertise in forest service environments. These partnerships reflect a preference for locally rooted vendors with demonstrated experience in rugged terrain and environmentally sensitive construction. His procurement approach emphasizes reliability, adherence to federal environmental standards, and continuity of service—traits consistently demonstrated by these long-standing vendor relationships. Hiedeman’s contracting patterns reveal a strong commitment to small business participation, with 66.7% of acquisitions set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5. While no specific socioeconomic categories like 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB are dominant, the consistent use of total small business set-asides underscores a strategic emphasis on fostering local economic resilience and contractor capacity within the Intermountain region. This pattern aligns with USDA-FS goals to prioritize community-based vendors with intimate knowledge of forest service operational needs. His procurement focus centers on NAICS 238160 (Roofing Contractors), which accounts for half of all activity, followed by industrial building construction (236210), other heavy and civil engineering construction (237990), and site preparation (238910). These reflect a technical domain centered on durable, weather-resistant infrastructure in high-elevation, high-wind, and snow-loaded environments, requiring specialized materials and construction techniques suited to forest service facilities.