SOLICITATION NOTICE
F -- Precommercial THinning and Fuel Reductions IDIQ
- Notice Date
- 4/4/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 115310
— Support Activities for Forestry
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, R-4 Intermountain Region, 324 25th Street, Regional Office, Ogden, Utah, 84401
- ZIP Code
- 84401
- Solicitation Number
- AG-84M8-S-13-0009
- Point of Contact
- Brian J Wharton, Phone: 801-625-5748
- E-Mail Address
-
bwharton@fs.fed.us
(bwharton@fs.fed.us)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Forest Service requires services for vegetation treatment for the purpose of reducing the risk of wildfires and reducing tree densities on the Ashley, Boise, Bridger-Teton, Caribou-Targhee, Dixie, Humboldt-Toiyabe, Manti-LaSal/Fishlake, Payette, Salmon-Challis, Uintah-Wasatch, and Sawtooth National Forests. Interested vendors must porpose on all Forests. Project areas are reforested areas, natural and managed stands of timber of all ages, size, and species, shrub fields, or grass areas. Fuels will consist of harvest activity slash, natural fuels, live fuels, and slashed shrubs and trees. Fuel loadings range from less than ½ ton per acre to as high as 200 tons or more per acre. Treatments such as brushing and piling have been shown to reduce the risk of wildfires and the severity of fires that do occur. Reducing competition between trees through the deliberate selection of leave trees will improve the overall health and condition of the stand based on the prescribed objectives. Tree selection and cutting of undesirable or excess trees will provide space for the leave trees to grow and develop, reduce the incidence of insect and diseases that affect growth, and undesirable tree qualities. It is the objective of this contract to treat vegetation and fuels present on units identified by the Forests to reduce fuel loading, optimize the treatment of those fuels to the most effective burning period, and decrease competition with residual trees. The services of this contract are designed to provide for fuels reduction, tree thinning, and timber stand improvement on Region 4 National Forests. This includes furnishing labor, supervision, equipment, transportation, operating supplies (except those designated as Government furnished), and incidentals to perform all work necessary to conduct thinning, girdling, lop and scatter, pruning, fuel modification zone construction and piling. The work will be performed only on U.S. Forest Service administered lands, again, Region 4 National Forests. Location maps where the work activities are to be performed will be provided at pre-award site visits and in the task orders. This requirement is being solicited as a Firm-Fixed Price Request for Proposals. A Multiple Award IDIQ is contemplated. Performance Period will be one base year and four option years. It is intended for proposals be due at 3:00 p.m. MST, May 29, 2013. The solicitation will be available on approximately April 29, 2013 and may be downloaded from this site at that time. All future information about this acquisition, including amendments, will be distributed solely through this site. Interested parties are responsible for monitoring this site to ensure that they have the most up-to-date information about this acquisition. Vendors are required to be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/. All responsible sources may submit a response to this announcement which will be considered by this agency
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/FS/84M8/AG-84M8-S-13-0009/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Intermountain Region National Forests, United States
- Record
- SN03029128-W 20130406/130404235045-b519f4dffff87a2401e4c23c7a26de45 (fbodaily.com)
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