Operations Center East

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office Economic Recovery Operations Center East is a civilian sub-agency within the USDA that procured contracts supporting economic recovery operations in the eastern United States. The office executed 288 federal contract awards between 2009 and 2015, concentrating activity in the program's initial launch phase: 106 awards in 2009, 176 in 2010, 5 in 2011, and 1 in 2015. The most recent recorded award dates to March 2015, placing all recorded activity more than a decade in the past.

The portfolio generated a combined award potential value of $54.2 million against 200 distinct prime contractors. Combined dollars obligated reached $55 million, slightly exceeding potential value. The contractor base is highly fragmented, reflecting the economic recovery program's structure as a distributed set of smaller engagements rather than a consolidated procurement.

Set-aside usage tilted heavily toward unrestricted competition: 57% of awards carried no set-aside designation. Small-business awards comprised 25% of the portfolio, with HUBZone small business representing the largest small-business subset at 8% of total awards. 8(a) sole-source awards accounted for 6% of volume. The remainder of the small-business mix — Emerging Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, Reserved for Small Business, and sole-source variants — each represented 1% or less of awards.

No recent contract awards are recorded against the agency or its descendant offices. The program concluded its active contracting phase in 2015 and appears to have transitioned away from procurement activity. No recent contract opportunities are listed for the office.