SOLICITATION NOTICE
F -- Vegetation Exams, Umatilla National Forest
- Notice Date
- 2/23/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 115310
— Support Activities for Forestry
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, R-6 Blue Mountain Acquisition Management Area, Umatilla NF, 2517 SW Hailey Avenue, Pendleton, OR, 97801, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- R6-14-07-93201
- Response Due
- 4/12/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The solicitation will result in an indefinite-quantity (also known as a Task Order), multiple award, performance based service contract spanning 3 years. Up to 6 contract awards may be made. Up to 6 contract awards have been determined to be sufficient to provide for adequate competition for Task Orders. The resultant contract is to collect tree and ground vegetation data to support reforestation monitoring, silvicultural prescriptions, and monitoring of the Umatilla National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan for the Umatilla National Forest. Knowledge and experience identifying tree species, plant associations, and ground vegetation species for the Blue Mountain region of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington is required as well as knowledge of insect diseases and other pathogenic diseases associated with vegetation in the Blue Mountain region of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington. Familiarity with GPS technology, Portable Data Recorders, and determination of fuel loading using Browns Transects, a photo series, or other means, is an additional requirement. Contractors shall provide labor, supervision, transportation, and all equipment necessary to complete the contract except that listed as Government-furnished property. Contractor shall provide electronic and non-electronic data as requested. Electronic data collected in the field using a portable data recorder (PDR), Contractor provided, utilizing Microsoft Pocket PC or Microsoft Windows CE operating system capable of operating application software provided by the Government, ExamsCE. Contractor can also hand input collected data on home based Personal Computers using ExamsPC. The Contractor will need Windows 2000 or Windows XP to operate these systems. Non-electronic collected data will be collected using paper forms compatible to electronic forms in ExamsCE and ExamsPC. Contractors shall provide the government with electronic files for uploading into the Governments Field Sampled Vegetation (FSVeg) corporate database. Contractors shall maintain backups of all data collected. The estimated start work date is June 1, 2007. The solicitation will be posted to FedBizOpps on March 12, 2007 and offers will be due April 12, 2007.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Umatilla National Forest
- Zip Code: 97801
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 97801
- Record
- SN01237709-W 20070225/070223220605 (fbodaily.com)
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