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F -- SPRING TREE PLANTING, LAKE WENATCHEE AND LEAVENWORTH RANGER DISTRICTS, CHELAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON SOL IFB R6-17-96-10 DUE 012596 POC Contact Point, Ellen Kinamon, (509)662-4234, Contracting Officer, Denise Fox-Auvil, (509)664-2712 Solicitation is for hoe planting - one bid item with a minimum of 184 acres and a maximum of 214 acres on the Lake Wenatchee Ranger District; estimated start work 04/01/96; Contract time 15 calendar days. Leavenworth Ranger District has five bid items. The estimated start work date for all five bid items is 04/08/96. Item 7-1 has a minimum of 500 acres and a maximum of 550 acres. Contract time 34 calendar days. Items 7-2, 7-3 and 7-4 are all Jobs-In-The-Woods projects and are set-aside for bidders residing in specified counties. Item 7-2 has a minimum of 385 acres and a maximum of 425 acres; contract time 32 calendar days. Item 7-3 has a minimum of 340 acres and a maximum of 380 acres; contact time 31 calendar days. Item 7-4 has a minimum of 390 acres and a maximum of 430 acres; contract time 32 calendar days. Item 7-5 has a minimum of 10 acres and a maximum of 80 acres; contract time 4 calendar days. Bid bond will be required. A Washington Farm/Forest Labor Contractor's License and a Migrant Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act Registration Number are required for this projec.t See Note Numbers 1 and 3. (0325)

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