SOLICITATION NOTICE
F -- Aerial Spraying for Gypsy Moth
- Notice Date
- 2/5/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 115112
— Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, R-9 Eastern Region, 626 E. Wisconsin Ave., Suite 300, Acquisition Management, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53202
- ZIP Code
- 53202
- Solicitation Number
- AG-56A1-S-14-0002
- Point of Contact
- Ann M. Ball, Phone: 4142971834, Richard O'Neill, Phone: 4142971128
- E-Mail Address
-
aball@fs.fed.us, Richardjoneill@fs.fed.us
(aball@fs.fed.us, Richardjoneill@fs.fed.us)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The purpose of this multiple-year solicitation is to aerially apply mating disruptants to control low density populations of the gypsy moth in the states of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota in the base year of 2014, and in option years 2015 and 2016 (if exercised). Disruptants registered with EPA and available for use are Disrupt II (EPA Reg. No.8730-55; Hercon Environmental, Emigsville, PA) and SPLAT-GM or SPLAT-GM Organic (EPA Reg. No. 80286-4 and 80286-12 respectively; ISCA Technologies, Riverside, CA). All three of the disruptants require custom application systems that must be designed, built and tested prior to submitting an offer. Offerors are required to provide all application aircraft, custom application systems, observation aircraft, personnel, licenses, equipment, materials, disruptant, transportation and incidentals to support annual projects of several hundred thousand acres of treatment. Automated Flight Following (AFF) and Differentially Corrected Global Positioning System (DGPS) for aircraft tracking, guidance and flight path recording during spray operations is also required of all awardees. Treatment blocks will be a mixture of contiguous forested areas, urban or residential areas and agricultural areas dotted with homes and small woodlots. Treatments will occur primarily in June, July and early August of each year. This project is offered as a Firm Fixed Price solicitation with Option Years. The total acreage and locations of the treatment blocks that make up the 2014 projects are provided in the solicitation. The work is offered in two items - one item includes approximately 60% of the work and the other approximately 40% of the work. Work in the Option years (if exercised) will remain about the same as far as total acreage that requires treatment and the division of work between items. However the specific geographic location and size of each individual treatment block will vary in the Option Years when compared to 2014. This project has been entirely set aside for small business and will be awarded based upon a combination of both technical and cost factors. Multiple awards are possible. For more information, please contact Richard O'Neill 414-297-1128 or Ann Ball 414-297-1834. The solicitation AG-56A1-S-14-0002 is tentatively scheduled to be posted in FBO February 19, 2014.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/FS/56A1/AG-56A1-S-14-0002/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Eastern Region of the Forest Service, see description above, United States
- Record
- SN03281538-W 20140207/140205234016-2da195cca9b2586b8332539f7d15928a (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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