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99 -- APPLIED RESEARCH AND TREE SEEDLING PRODUCTION FROM OREGON STATE NURSERY SOL 1422H952-R96-2058 DUE 091996 POC Pierre Mathies, Procurement Technician, (503) 952-6218. CDB NOTICE FOR PHIPPS RE-PROCUREMENT The BLM proposes to noncompetitively negotiate a five year, incrementally funded, contract with the State of Oregon - D.L. Phipps forest Nursery. D.L. Phipps Nursery is uniquely qualified, as: 1) No other nursery has a comparable physiographic and geological-elevation location with a growing base to produce sufficient quantity and quality of propagules and perform needed research and development work, 2) It is the only nursery in the Pacific Northwest with the combination of on-site research facilities, technologically advanced lab and operations equipment and nursery personnel/expertise, 3) Phipps Nursery is located in the geographic center of the BLM's forest lands, has the physiological (growing season length, frost free days, average annual temperature range, rainfall timing and amounts) and geological (soil type and depth, elevation, etc.) requirements necessary to produce propagules and conduct research directly applicable to the majority of the BLM's managed lands. As such, it provides a critical link in the research and development needed to achieve the BLM's reforestation, restoration, plant diversity and other landscape management goals. In its role as a major provider of plant materials to small woodland owners, Phipps Nursery has been able to pass on the results of prior research and development work done with the BLM and others, thus rapidly improving reforestation efforts on public and private lands thruoghout Oregon. Future research and development work under the scope of this procurement will continue this beneficial process. The seedlings to be produced have genetic sources representing low elevation coastal and Willamette Valley environments. Other propagules may come from much more diverse genetic sources. Required production is expected to average 2.5 million propagules annually. Based on: 1) the Pacific Northwest Nursery Directory and Report, dated January 1996, and produced annually by the U.S.D.A - Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, 2) Commerce Business Daily synopses over the past ten years, and 3) first hand knowledge of the forest nursery industry in the Pacific Northwest, it has been determined that there is no existing suitable commercial facility to provide this requirement. The contractor must have the ability to provide related research and development work critical to achieving the reforestation, restoration and vegetative diversity goals as set forth in current BLM and State of Oregon management plans. These capabilities require the on-site laboratory facilities, nursery peronnel and discipline expertise, and state-of-the-art equipment able to: develop, analyze, and monitor morphological and physiological characteristics of a wide variety of species of propagules, how the attributes critical to on-site establishment and growth following outplanting on a wide variety of sites respond to various nursery treatments, determine lift and storage requirements for various species, genetic sources and stock-types for best field performance, explore and analyze the inter-relationships between species, genetic origin, seed bed density, soil properties, irrigation, fertilization, insect and disease control, and root culturing on seedling quality and percentage of shippable seedlings, explore and refine propagation techniques, cultural practices, lifting and grading standards, and storage requirements to enhance the field performance of seedlings from a wide variety of species, genetic sources and stock-types.Production of quality seedling with specific attributes needed for rapid establishment and growth is dependent on matching nursery elevation and environment with BLM seed lot source environment, elevation and field planting period. The following are minimum geographic and facility requirements for the proposed acquisition from the State of Oregon - D.L. Phipps Nursery: Proposal Area - Western Oregon, south of Cottage Grove, in the coast range, and located at an elevation below 500 feet. Facilities: Ability to lift 500,000 to 800,000 plants per day, pre-cooler capacity for 500,000 plants, cold storage capacity for 4,000,000 plants, on-site facilities and technical research and development expertise. Although this is not a request for proposals, interested parties should describe: the training and experience of personnel available for research and development, facilities, site characteristics and eqipment to be used, how all of these factors would fulfill the above requirement. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0213)

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