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F -- NURSERY CONTRACT TO GROW OAK SEEDLINGS, OZARK-ST. FRANCIS NATIONAL FORESTS SOL FS-WOC-00-419 DUE 031400 POC Karen Alexander, Contracting Officer, 601/965-4391, ext. 162 WEB: cbd_submit@gpo.gov, http://www.fs.gov. Furnish all labor, materials, supplies, equipment, fertilizer, insecticides, herbicides, soil fumigants, and other materials necessary to grow one-year-old (1-0) bareroot white oak and red oak seedlings over a four-year period. The contractor will sow, culture, lift, grade, pack, store and load seedlings for government-provided shipment. Seedlings must be grown within a 300-mile radius of Russellville, Arkansas, from acorns collected in Arkansas. During FY 2000, there will be no government-furnished property. (The contractor must furnish the first year's acorns.) In subsequent years, the Government will supply the acorns needed to grow the seedlings at the rate of 2 acorns to produce 1 tree. This contract will be a base year with 3 option year periods. It is anticipated that sowing should begin on or about 1 April 2000. The following is an estimate of the Forest Service's projected needs: FY2000, sow 57,000 seedlings to plant in FY2001; FY2001, sow 60,000 seedlings to plant in FY2002; FY2002, sow 80,000 seedlings to plant in FY2003; FY2003, sow 100,000 seedlings to plant in FY2004. See numbered note 01. Posted 02/12/00 (W-SN424814). (0043)

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