SOLICITATION NOTICE
F -- Feeding of Wild Horses at the BLM Elm Creek, NE facility for one year with two one year option periods
- Notice Date
- 2/15/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- BLM-BC NATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER* BC663 BLDG 50, DFC, PO BOX 25047 DENVER CO 80225
- ZIP Code
- 80225
- Solicitation Number
- NAR060062
- Response Due
- 3/29/2006
- Archive Date
- 2/15/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- NAR060062, FEEDING OF WILD HORSES AT THE ELM CREEK, NEBRASKA HOLDING FACILITY, FOR A 12-MONTH PERIOD, WITH TWO 12-MONTH OPTIONS. Solicitation number NAR060062 applies and will be issued on or about February 29, 2006 as a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the following requirement: The Bureau of Land Management's Elm Creek, NE Holding Facility has a requirement for feeding services 7 days per week for 12 months, from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007, with an option for 2 more 12-month periods. The Elm Creek Wild Horse and Burro Facility is located at 5050 100th Road, Elm Creek, Nebraska. Offerors shall provide a firm fixed monthly unit price for the base year, option year 1 and option year 2. BACKGROUND - Wild horses and burros on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Forest Service are protected, managed and controlled under the provisions of the Act of December 15, 1971, as amended (16 US. 1331-1340). As resource conditions and other factors warrant, excess wild horses and burros are removed from the public lands and placed in facilities for preparation to be placed in private maintenance through the Adopt-A-Horse program. The Wild Horse and Burro Center at Elm Creek (EC) is the primary holding facility for wild horses and burros making there way to private homes across the United States through the Adopt-A- Horse program. Routinely, EC receives animals from western facilities and conversely ships them to adoption locations around the midwest, southern, and eastern United States. The facility maintains throughout the year 400-500 animals on a daily basis. OBJECTIVE - The objective of this contract is to procure services for the feeding of these animals as they arrive from the western facilities and await transport to adoption locations around the country. EC is a permanent year-round holding facility requiring daily feeding of the animals residing on the facility. GENERAL SERVICES - The Contractor shall provide sufficient personnel and equipment to assure the daily feeding on average of 400-500 animals 365 days a year, to include all unloading of large round bale hay shipments that arrive at EC from the hay contractor, which is expected to be about once a month. Shipments may occur more than once a month, depending on the number of animals being maintained at the facility, animal, and weather conditions. Approximately, 195 tons of hay will be shipped per month, and shipments will include large round bales and small square bales. Contractor Furnished Equipment Required: As a minimum, the contractor will provide a tractor or loader with a round-bale grapple loader capable of transporting round bales to the necessary feeders on the facility. The tractor will be required to have front assist capability because of the steep grades and slippery conditions during wet times. Conditions at the facility can become very slippery and this requirement is necessary for the safety of the contract employees, as well as, the facility fences and ability to get hay to the animals. The contractor provided tractor will remain on the facility 7 days a week to ensure that in the case of bad weather the tractor will be available to the facility to feed horses and not need to be transported to the facility in poor weather conditions. On occasion, with the approval of the COR, the tractor may leave the premises for maintenance or fueling. Optional Contractor Furnished Equipment: A pickup truck to deliver small square bales to the required feeders is optional but recommended due to the ease of driving next to the feeders and delivering the small square bales to the feeders. The facility consists of 9 large outside pens and 21 smaller pens. The outside pens are used to house the majority of the animals and can house 50-80 animals per pen. The outside pens have movable, large round-bale feeders. The smaller inside pens consist of 10 pens used for animals being ready for shipment or adoption events. Five of the smaller pens are used for BLM saddle horses or animals requiring special attention. The smaller pens have hanging feeders requiring the use of small square bales and several have round-bale feeders which can be used. There are also 6 isolation pens used to house sick or injured animals and have permanent feeders requiring the feeding of small square bales. It is anticipated that the feeding services for the wild horses and burros will require at least two contract personnel, one to operate the front-end loader tractor and one to operate the pickup on a daily basis, and a second person to open and close gates. The contract personnel will be required to unload all shipments of the large round bales of hay that arrive at the facility, and to haul the large round-bales using the contractor-provided tractor/loader to the large outside pens from a central holding area. In addition, the contractors will need to haul small square bales from a central storage area to the small pens using the contractor provided pickup truck or tractor/loader. It is anticipated that one contractor employee would drive the vehicles and the other would open gates and off-load the small square bales into the feeders. As for the unloading of the shipments of the round bales of hay delivered by the hay contractor, it is anticipated that the contractor will need to provide a tractor operator for the contractor provided tractor. The feeding contractor, the hay contractor, and the BLM COR shall coordinate all delivery times to ensure that hay is delivered and unloaded in a timely and efficient manner. The safety and well-being of the Contractor's personnel performing these feeding services shall be the sole responsibility of the Contractor. The behavior/conduct of the Contractor's personnel shall be the full responsibility of the Contractor. The Contractor shall be held accountable for any employee's misconduct, negligence, and/or failure to perform. The Contractor's personnel shall have a working knowledge of feeding large numbers of animals in a feedlot environment. In the event that any one or more contractor personnel are observed performing the required duties in an unsafe manner to the animals, themselves, Government personnel, or endangering the Government Furnished equipment/supplies, the contractor shall be so notified by the COR or PI and the contractor shall provide an immediate replacement person at the facility within two hours of being notified. In as much as the facility is open to the public, the Contractor's employees will perform their duties in a manner that will not bring discredit on the BLM or the contractor. Further, operation of equipment will take into consideration that members of the public may be in the area and utmost caution will be taken. The Contractor and personnel are responsible for any malicious damage or accidental damage of the Government furnished equipment. On a daily basis, prior to operating any item of equipment, the contractor's personnel will perform an inspection of the vehicles/equipment to include but not be limited to fluid levels, operation of safety equipment, etc. This is not a complete list of the specifications and should be used only as a basis to decide whether or not to review the solicitation. Proposals are due March 29, 2006 by 2:00 PM Mountain Time. Send proposals by U.S. Mail to: Department of the Interior; BLM, BC-663; Attention: Steve Santoro; BLDG 50, DFC, PO Box 25047; Denver, CO 80225-0047. By express or hand delivery: Department of the Interior; BLM, BC-663; Attention: Steve Santoro; Mail Room, Entrance S-2; BLDG 50, Denver Federal Center; Denver, CO 80225; By facsimile to (303) 236-9421. Hard copies of the solicitation will not be provided. Offerors must be registered at http://www.ccr.gov to be eligible for award of a contract.
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