Definitive Contract 1205M619C0010

This firm fixed price contract for $22,880 was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region to collect white pine needle samples on southern California forests. The purpose is to screen the samples for resilience to white pine blister rust, a fungal disease affecting five pine species. Fermin Salas of West Covina, California will perform the work under a total small business set-aside. The contract was awarded on September 26th, 2022 with a completion...

This is a firm fixed price Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region to Global Biosurvey, doing business as Oregon Biosurvey, a small business contractor. The $99,897.40 contract is for white bark pine surveys to support the agency's natural resource management programs. The work involves conducting field surveys to determine the presence or absence of target plant species, mapping populations, and...

This is a $119,644.97 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, to Quercus Consultants, Inc., a certified woman-owned small business (WOSB) and HUBZone firm. The contract is for blister rust surveys and forestry services to support the Forest Service's operations in the Pacific Southwest Region. It does not have a set-aside designation. Based on the vendor's prior federal contract awards, Quercus...

The USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region awarded a firm fixed price contract valued at $32,887.50 to Global Biosurvey, doing business as Oregon Biosurvey, for botanical surveys of whitebark pine trees on National Forest lands in Heppner, Oregon. The contract was awarded under the agency's BPA Call vehicle and has a total small business set aside designation. Oregon Biosurvey will conduct botanical field surveys and assessments of whitebark pine on USDA Forest Service lands in the area...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington awarded a $496,406.62 delivery order to Pine West Reforestation Oswaldo Bencomo Division under the BLM Roseburg District Reforestation Treatment 2016-2017 master indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Pine West will perform reforestation services in the Archie Creek area as part of the Roseburg District Office reforestation program. Work will be conducted between November 2021 and May 2022. The firm fixed price...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has awarded a $40,000.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Oregon State University (OSU) to perform genetic analysis on up to 2,000 tree needle samples. The purpose is to accurately identify whitebark (Pinus albicaulis) and limber (Pinus flexilis) pine tree species, which are difficult to distinguish visually, particularly in early life stages. This contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, was awarded under the Forest...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region awarded a $16,247.82 firm fixed price call against the Region 5 Cone and Needle Collection Blanket Purchase Agreement to Inghram David of Camino, California. The call is for placing an order to collect sugar pine cone and needles within northern California forests to test their resiliency to white pine blister rust. The collection will be completed by July 31, 2023. The Region 5 Cone and Needle Collection BPA provides a...

The USDA Forest Service, Region 1 awarded a $37,578 firm fixed price delivery order to GE Forestry, Inc. for western white pine pruning in the Clearwater Ranger District of Idaho. The work will be performed in Orofino from August to October 2019 under the agency's timber stand improvement program. No subcontractors or set aside designations were indicated. The Forest Service manages 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands, conducting forestry activities such as tree planting and...

This is a definitive federal contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Region 5 - Pacific Southwest Region to Dennis Ringnes, a veteran-owned small business. The $1,042.05 firm-fixed-price contract is for the collection and grafting of rust-resistant sugar pine scions, with a completion date of May 31, 2017. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The agency's work in forest management and research suggests this contract supports the agency's efforts to identify and...

This federal contract award, identified as AG9JGPB160004|AG9JGPK160023, was issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, Region 5 - Pacific Southwest Region, to Thomas P Burt for the R5 CONE COLLECTION (WHITEBARK) project. The contract has a firm fixed price of $8,900.00 and a completion date of October 31, 2017. The contract was awarded on July 1, 2016 and does not have a set-aside designation. This contract is likely part of the USDA Forest Service's efforts to manage...