SAM #1176101

Forest Service Hand-Thinning and Vegetation-Management Services

The USDA Forest Service is planning a multi-award contract for hand thinning and vegetation management across National Forests and National Grasslands in the Northern Rockies and Great Basin. - Government buyer: U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service; the initial notice identifies USDA-FS CSA Intermountain 3. - Contract scope: A multiple-award task order contract for work in Northern Rockies Region 1 and Great Basin Region 4, covering portions of California, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. - Services requested: Non-merchantable vegetation treatment for fuels reduction, prescribed-burn preparation, stand improvement, and rehabilitation. Work may include tree thinning, slashing, girdling, pruning, weed and browse-species release, slash treatment, hand piling, chipping, and unit preparation or rehabilitation. - Additional work and requirements: Projects may require fuel-break and fireline construction, residual-tree protection, duff-mound removal, and marking or traversing unit boundaries and special-protection areas. Adjacent lands may be included when cross-boundary work supports project objectives and required permissions are obtained. - OEMs and vendors: No OEMs, named vendors, products, part numbers, or product quantities are identified. - Value and duration: The estimated contract magnitude is more than $10 million. The planned period is approximately five years; specific start and end dates are not provided.

Description

Requirement includes a wide variety of non-merchantable vegetation management activities for the purpose of fuels reduction, prescribed burn unit preparation, stand improvement, or unit rehabilitation. Activities could include, but are not limited to, tree thinning, slashing, girdling, pruning, weed and release, release of browse species, slash treatment, hand piling, fuel break construction, Fireline construction, residual tree protection, duff mound removal, unit preparation work, rehabilitation, chipping and related services. Unit boundary/special protection area designation and/or traversing for or within these units may also be included in the activity.

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