SOLICITATION NOTICE
F -- F003-Hazardous Fuels Reduction
- Notice Date
- 1/6/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- BLM NATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER BC663, BLDG 50, DFC, PO BOX 25047 DENVER CO 80225
- ZIP Code
- 80225
- Solicitation Number
- NAR040048
- Response Due
- 3/2/2004
- Archive Date
- 1/5/2005
- Point of Contact
- Beverly C Sechrest Contracting Officer 3032369441 BeverlySechrest@blm.gov;
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Point of Contact above, or if none listed, contact the IDEAS EC HELP DESK for assistance
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- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- THIS SOLICITATION REPLACES NAR030061A. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has a requirement for hazardous fuels management (fuels reduction) services to treat vegetation to reduce the risk of wildland fires. Possible states that may utilize contracts resulting from the solicitation include Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, and Texas. It is anticipated that multiple awards will be issued for each state. Project areas are reforestation 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 one half ton per acre to as high as 100 tons or more per acre. Treatments such as brushing, chipping, piling, fuel break construction, and prescribed fire have been shown to reduce the risk of wildland fire and the severity of fires that do occur. The objective is to treat fuels present on units identified to reduce fuel loading and optimize the treatment of those fuels to the most effective burning period. The services are designed to provide for wildfire hazard reduction, prescribed burning and mop-up, and related services. This may require vegetation manipulation, burn unit preparation, prescribed burning and mop-up in compliance with its terms, specifications and provisions. This may include Contractor formulating and preparing written burn plans for submission and approval by the ordering agency, determining when specific burn units are within prescription parameters through field checks of fuel moistures percentages; providing all required crew members, supervision and making all prescribed burn operational decisions ranging from determining that site specific unit conditions are within approved burn plan parameters, through ignition and holding operations, mop-up and patrol until released by the Contracting Officer's Representative. This may include furnishing labor, supervision, transportation, operating supplies, and incidentals to perform all work necessary to conduct slashing, girdling, lop and scatter, selective slashing, pruning, fuel modification zone construction, hand piling and cover, prescribed fire plan preparation, fire line construction and maintenance, fuels pullback, prescribed burning and mop-up, additional mop-up, sang felling, roadblock removal/restoration, requested holding and mop-up. This requirement is 100% set aside for small businesses under NAICS 115310. The solicitation will be available on or about January 7, 2004. Potential offerors may obtain a copy of the solicitation at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. No hard copies of the solicitation will be provided. This is the second solicitation offering. This is an indefinate delivery/indefinite quantity contract (IDIQ) for the period beginning date of award through July 30, 2004, with options to extend the period for two additional years. See Numbered Note 1. All potential offerors are required to be registered in the Central Contractor Registration database located at www.ccr.gov.
- Web Link
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- Record
- SN00499242-W 20040108/040106212027 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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