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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 05, 2003 FBO #0430
SOLICITATION NOTICE

F -- F- Feeding Wild Horses and Burros

Notice Date

2/3/2003
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

Contracting Office

BLM NATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER BC660, BLDG 50, DFC, PO BOX 25047 DENVER CO 80225
 

ZIP Code

80225
 

Solicitation Number

NAB030026
 

Archive Date

2/3/2004
 

Point of Contact

Steven Santoro Contracting Officer 3032363518 Steven_Santoro@blm.gov
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Total Small Business
 

Description

BLM Invitation for Bids, NAB030026, FEEDING OF WILD HORSES AT THE ELM CREEK, NEBRASKA HOLDING FACILITY, FOR A 12-MONTH PERIOD, WITH TWO 12-MONTH OPTIONS. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; bids are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number NAB030026 applies and is issued as an Invitation for Bid (IFB) for the following requirement: The Bureau of Land Management's Elm Creek, NE Holding Facility has a requirement for feeding services 7 days per week for 12 months, from July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004, with an option for 2 more 12-month periods. A pre-bid tour of this facility is scheduled for February 11, 2003, starting at 10:00 a.m. local Nebraska time. Potential bidders are encouraged to inspect the sight at this time. The Elm Creek Wild Horse and Burro Facility is located at 5050 100th Road, Elm Creek, Nebraska. If bidders plan to attend the Site Visit, they should contact the Facility at (308) 856-4498 prior to the visit in order to allow facility personnel time to make arrangements for the tour. Failure of a bidder to inspect the facility shall not constitute grounds for claims or requests for equitable adjustments against the government, due to the bidder's unfamiliarity with the conditions at the job site. Bidders shall provide a firm fixed monthly unit price for the base year, option year 1 and option year 2. REQUIREMENTS: ITEM 0001: The Wild Horse and Burro Center at Elm Creek (EC) is the primary holding facility for wild horses and burros making there way to private homes across the United States through the Adopt-A- Horse program. Routinely, EC receives animals from western facilities and conversely ships them to adoption locations around the midwest, southern, and eastern United States. The facility maintains throughout the year 400-500 animals on a daily basis. OBJECTIVE: To procure services for the feeding of these animals as they arrive from the western facilities and await transport to adoption locations around the country. EC is a permanent year-round holding facility requiring daily feeding of the animals residing on the facility. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS: The Contractor shall provide sufficient personnel and equipment to assure the daily feeding on average of 400-500 animals, 365 days per year, to include all unloading of large round bale hay shipments that arrive at EC from the hay contractor, which is expected to be about once a month. Shipments may occur more than once a month, depending on the number of animals being maintained at the facility, animal, and weather conditions. Approximately, 195 tons of hay will be shipped per month, and shipments will include large round bales and small square bales. CONTRATOR FURNISHED EQUIPMENT REQUIRED: 1. As a minimum, the contractor will provide a tractor or loader with a round-bale grapple loader capable of transporting round bales to the necessary feeders on the facility. The tractor will be required to have front assist capability because of the steep grades and slippery conditions during wet times. Conditions at the facility can become very slippery and this requirement is necessary for the safety of the contract employees, as well as, the facility fences and ability to get hay to the animals. 2. The contractor provided tractor will remain on the facility 7 days per week to ensure that in the case of bad weather the tractor will be available to the facility to feed horses and not need to be transported to the facility in poor weather conditions. On occasion, with the approval of the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR), the tractor may leave the premises for maintenance or fueling. OPTIONAL CONTRACTOR FURNISHED EQUIPMENT: 1. A pickup truck to deliver small square bales to the required feeders is optional but recommended due to the ease of driving next to the feeders and delivering the small square bales to the feeders. 2. The facility consists of 9 large outside pens and 21 smaller pens. The outside pens are used to house the majority of the animals and can house 50-80 animals per pen. The outside pens have movable, large round-bale feeders. The smaller inside pens consist of 10 pens used for animals being ready for shipment or adoption events. Five of the smaller pens are used for BLM saddle horses or animals requiring special attention. The smaller pens have hanging feeders requiring the use of small square bales and several have round-bale feeders that can be used. There are also 6 isolation pens used to house sick or injured animals and have permanent feeders requiring the feeding of small square bales. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS: 1. It is anticipated that the feeding services for the wild horses and burros will require at least two contract personnel, one to operate the front-end loader tractor and one to operate the pickup on a daily basis. Of these two, one will open and close gates. 2. The contract personnel will be required to unload all shipments of the large round bales of hay that arrive at the facility, and to haul the large round-bales using the contractor-provided tractor/loader to the large outside pens from a central holding area. In addition, the contractors will need to haul small square bales from a central storage area to the small pens using the contractor provided pickup truck or tractor/loader. 3. It is anticipated that one contractor employee would drive the vehicles and the other would open gates and off-load the small square bales into the feeders. As for the unloading of the shipments of the round bales of hay delivered by the hay contractor, it is anticipated that the contractor will need to provide a tractor operator for the contractor provided tractor. 4. The feeding contractor, the hay contractor, and the BLM COR shall coordinate all delivery times to ensure that hay is delivered and unloaded in a timely and efficient manner. 5. The safety and well-being of the Contractor's personnel performing these feeding services shall be the sole responsibility of the Contractor. The behavior/conduct of the Contractor's personnel shall be the full responsibility of the Contractor. 6. The Contractor shall be held accountable for any employee's misconduct, negligence, and/or failure to perform. The Contractor's personnel shall have a working knowledge of feeding large numbers of animals in a feedlot environment. 7. In the event that any one or more contractor personnel are observed performing the required duties in an unsafe manner to the animals, themselves, Government personnel, or endangering the Government Furnished equipment/supplies, the contractor shall be so notified by the COR or PI and the contractor shall provide an immediate replacement person at the facility within two hours of being notified. 8. In as much as the facility is open to the public, the Contractor's employees will perform their duties in a manner that will not bring discredit on the BLM or the contractor. Further, operation of equipment will take into consideration that members of the public may be in the area and utmost caution will be taken. 9. The Contractor and personnel are responsible for any malicious damage or accidental damage of the Government furnished equipment. On a daily basis, prior to operating any item of equipment, the contractor's personnel will perform an inspection of the vehicles/equipment to include but not be limited to fluid levels, operation of safety equipment, etc. 10. The Contractor shall feed the animals the quantity of hay and supplemental feed necessary to satisfy the animal's nutritional needs. The hay requirement for adult horses is 25 pounds of hay daily. The requirement for supplemental feed, a grain mixture for foals and weanlings is approximately 2 pounds daily per weanling and 1 pound per nursing foal. The feeding requirement for an adult burro is 12 pounds of hay daily. 11. The objective is for all animals to attain and/or maintain a good fleshy condition. Fleshy condition is described as: back level; ribs, not visually distinguishable; wither, rounded; shoulders and neck, blending smoothly into body. If this objective is not being met, a change in feeding will be directed by the PI, and/or the COR. 12. In order to assure that all animals are able to maintain a good fleshy condition, the Contractor shall space the feed in the feeders/mangers so that all the animals are afforded equal access to the feed. In the 9 large outside pens, this will be 15 adult horses per large round bale and 20 weanlings per large round bale. The smaller pen feeders will be fed at the direction of the Project Inspector (PI) or COR. 13. Any feed supplements that are required by the COR will be fed in the troughs provided. The supplemental feed bunks will be moved and fed by the contractor in a well-spaced pattern to allow animal access to the supplemental feed. 14. In the event that the Contractor notices any animals in distress (i.e., sickly; injured; mares with foaling problems; or deceased animals; etc,), the contractor shall immediately notify a BLM representative of the problems so that appropriate action may be taken. The Contractor shall also notify a BLM representative of any water trough malfunction. 15. The Contractor shall feed all animals in accordance with the requirements set forth above, at least once per day, every day, to include Saturdays, Sundays, and all holidays. Feeding shall be conducted within the hours of 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. All duties are performed out-of-doors and subject to a wide variety of climatic conditions from below 0 degrees in the winter to over 100 degrees in the summer. RESPONSIBILITIES OF BLM: 1. The BLM will provide the large round bales, small square bales of hay, and the supplemental feed necessary to feed the animals on the facility. 2. Every morning, the Contractor shall check in with the BLM PI and/or the COR for the current count of animals at the facility. BLM representatives will also provide the following information to the Contractor: Type and amount of hay (grass hay, grass/alfalfa mix, and alfalfa hay) to go to each pen, Amount of supplemental feed to go to each pen, The identity of pens that contain animals that day and the number of animals that day in each pen. Identify pens that horses will be moved into due to sorting. 3. If necessary (e.g., when unexpected loads of animals arrive, when horses are sorted into different pens than where designated that morning, when animals consume more feed than was fed, etc.) the Government reserves the right to feed the animals at the facility. Contractor shall check with the PI or COR before leaving to see if there are any changes. This is a 100% set-aside for small business (See Note 1). The standard SIC/NAICS classification is 8999/111940. Size standard is $6 million. The following provisions and Clauses apply to this announcement: FAR clauses 52.212-1 and 3 thru 5 are applicable and this synopsis/solicitation incorporates all provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2001-11. Addendum to 52.212-5: 52.203-6 RESTRICTIONS ON SUBCONTRACTOR SALES TO THE GOVERNMENT, WITH ALTERNATE 1; 52.216-1 TYPE OF CONTRACT - Firm Fixed Unit Price; 52.217-08 OPTION TO EXTEND SERVICES 10 days; 52.217-09 OPTION TO EXTEND THE TERM OF THE CONTRACT 10, 30, (c) 42 months; 52.219-8 UTILIZATION OF SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS; 52.219-14 LIMITATIONS ON SUBCONTRACTING; 52.222-21 PROHIBITION OF SEGREGATED FACILITIES; 52.222-26 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY; 52.222-35 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR SPECIAL DISABLED VETERANS, VETERANS OF THE VIETNAM ERA, AND OTHER ELIGIBLE VETERANS; 52.222-36 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR WORKERS WITH DISABILITIES; 52.222-37 EMPLOYMENT REPORTS ON SPECIAL DISABLED VETERANS, VETERANS OF THE VIETNAM ERA, AND OTHER ELIGIBLE VETERANS; 52.222-41 SERVICE CONTRACT ACT OF 1965, AS AMENDED; 52.225-13 RESTRICTION ON CERTAIN FOREIGN PURCHASES; 52.225-16 SANCTIONED EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRY SERVICES; 52.232-34 PAYMENT BY ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER-OTHER THAN CENTRAL CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION; 52.214-3; AMENDMENTS TO INVITATION FOR BIDS; 52.214-4 FALSE STATEMENTS IN BIDS; 52.214-5 SUBMISSION OF BIDS; 52.214-6 EXPLANATION TO PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS; 52.214-7 LATE SUBMISSIONS, MODIFICATIONS, AND WITHDRAWALS OF BIDS; 52.214-10 CONTRACT AWARD-SEALED BIDDING; 52.214-12 PREPARATION OF BIDS. Bids are due March 3, 2003 by 3:00 PM Mountain Time. Send bids by U.S. Mail to: Department of the Interior; BLM, BC-663; Attention: Steve Santoro; BLDG 50, DFC, PO Box 25047; Denver, CO 80225-0047. By express or hand delivery: Department of the Interior; BLM, BC-663; Attention: Steve Santoro; Mail Room, Entrance S-4; BLDG 50, Denver Federal Center; Denver, CO 80225. Submit bids to the address indicated above in accordance with FAR 52.212-1. Quotes shall include the following items: 1) Pricing Schedule including unit price. 2) Any prompt payment discount terms. 3) Completed 52.212-3 Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items (Feb 2002) (accessible at http://www.arnet.gov/far/). 4) List of three most recent customers having similar requirement (provide name, telephone number, and point of contact). 5) Include TIN and DUNS Number. 6) Offer must be signed. The anticipated award date is March 5, 2003 for a Firm Fixed Unit Price Type contract. Requests for a copy of the solicitation must be faxed to 303-236-9421 if unable to gain access thru this electronic commerce site.
 

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Place of Performance

Address: BLM Elm Creek Wild Horse and Burro Holding Facility 505 100th Road Elm Creek, Nebraska 68836

Zip Code: 68836

Country: US
 

Record

SN00252271-W 20030205/030203213755 (fbodaily.com)
 

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