SAM #12363N26Q4181

Corral G-Z forestry stewardship, timber harvest, and fuels-reduction services

The USDA Forest Service is seeking a contractor for the Corral G-Z Integrated Resource Stewardship Contract in the Fremont-Winema National Forest near Bly, Oregon. - Government buyer: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Forest Service; Stewardship Contracting Branch; Fremont-Winema National Forest, Bly Ranger District. - Scope: Forestry planning and layout, commercial timber harvest, thinning and fuels reduction, habitat and forest restoration, monitoring, and related road and operational protections across the Corral and Grizzly project areas. - Timber and treatment scale: The solicitation describes approximately 191,379 tons of commercial timber and treatments across roughly 7,000 acres, with fuels reduction across roughly 17,000 acres. A timber-specification attachment separately estimates 135,758 tons for the Corral area: 3,059 tons of ponderosa pine sawtimber and 132,699 tons of white fir and other conifer sawtimber. These estimates describe different project scopes in the documents. - Named OEMs and vendors: No commercial OEMs, manufacturers, or vendors are identified. The government agency is the USDA Forest Service. - Mandatory work and schedule quantities: Corral timber removal (3,875); Corral control-feature thinning and cut, skid, and deck work (722); Corral timber-unit work (1,584); Grizzly implementation plan (6,095 gross acres); cultural-site location and GPS work (38); unit-boundary flagging, tagging, painting, and GPS work (1,595,585 schedule units; unit of measure is not clear in the summary); detailed logging plan (lump sum); pre-cruise plots (20); final cruise plots (120). - Optional work: Corral control features (1,296), plantations (859), natural stands (723), old-growth small-tree thinning (152); woodland, shrubland, and meadow hand-piling (777); Grizzly timber removal (3,000), transmission-line treatments (820), control features (1,613), timber units (2,500), natural stands (379 in one schedule summary; 397 in another), whitebark pine restoration (56), old-growth thinning (415), aspen conifer removal (215), and prescription and virtual-boundary monitoring (5,000 in the solicitation schedule; 9,970 in the technical-specification summary). - Other timber specifications: Corral timber quantities also include unestimated softwood green bio CV and softwood sawtimber, subject to written agreement. Timber specifications set minimum tree and log characteristics and require timber to be presented for scaling. - Notable requirements: Work must follow treatment-specific retention, spacing, thinning, slash-treatment, and fuels prescriptions. Requirements also cover ground-verified unit boundaries and GPS/GIS deliverables; wildlife retention areas; cultural-site protection; stream and sensitive-soil buffers; species surveys and avoidance; seasonal operating restrictions; road, drainage, and erosion controls; traffic control; and fire prevention and suppression. The implementation-plan attachment sets a 15–20% wildlife-retention requirement for specified timber-unit areas. - Contract structure and value: The solicitation anticipates a firm-fixed-price contract and is set aside for small businesses. The attachments identify mandatory and optional work; they do not provide a reliable total contract value. The estimated value below is a rough planning range, not a government estimate.

Description

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial services prepared in accordance with FAR 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested, and a separate written solicitation will not be issued.

Solicitation number 12363N26Q4181 is issued as a request for quotation (RFQ).  This project follows the G to Z Integrated Resource Stewardship Contract (IRSC) model which is a unique approach that takes projects from signed NEPA decision and reintroduction of fire on the landscape.

The Corral G-Z Integrated Resource Service Contract directly supports Executive Order 14225, the Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production, Secretary Rollins Memorandum 1078-006 and follows the direction put forth by Acting Associate Chief Chris French in producing timber volume, reducing hazardous fuels, providing wood fiber to struggling industries and supporting local economies surrounding the Fremont-Winema National Forest.

The objectives of this project are 1) to restore forest health and vigor by reverting stand density and species composition to their historical range of variability, while also 2) mitigating the threat of catastrophic wildfire by reducing hazardous fuels. These objectives will be accomplished through the following:

Professional Forestry: Completion of harvest layout, timber marking, timber volume determination and acre determination of harvest unit boundaries, and DxP prescription monitoring. Logging and Fuels Reduction: Cut and remove an estimated 191,379 tons of commercial timber on approximately 7,000 acres, and fuels reduction on approximately 17,000 acres. Removal will include ground-based logging systems utilizing whole tree yarding, cutting, skidding and decking sub-merchantable trees in plantations, fuel breaks and general stands. Cut and pile encroaching conifers in meadow areas and release cuts in whitebark pine stands.

The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 113310 –logging, with a small business size standard of 500 employees. The product service code is F014. The government will award a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) contract resulting from this combined synopsis/solicitation to the responsible quoter whose quote, conforming to the synopsis/solicitation, will be most advantageous to the government (as determined by the solicitation evaluation criteria). All responsible sources may submit a quotation which will be considered by the agency, and shall be valid for 60 days after the date of receipt for the solicitation.

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