Purchase Order 140L1226P0011
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- The Bureau of Land Management, California State Office awarded a $543,881 firm fixed price contract to Retterath Cattle Company of Janesville, California, to procure 350 tons of grass hay and 2,500 tons of alfalfa hay for the BLM Litchfield Wild Horse and Burro Facility. The contract was awarded under the Small Business Administration's 8(a) Business Development Program set aside exclusively for small businesses. Funding is provided by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management...
- The Bureau of Land Management California Region awarded a $940,675 firm fixed price purchase order to Retterath Cattle Company of Litchfield, California. Under the terms of the award, Retterath will provide 3,000 tons of alfalfa hay and 600 tons of grass hay from the 2021 and 2022 crop years for use at BLM's Litchfield Wild Horse and Burro Facility. The alfalfa hay must meet crude protein specifications and be free of moisture damage, while the grass hay must consist solely of Timothy, Brome, or...
- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $560,250 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Retterath Cattle Company, a small business prime contractor, to provide alfalfa hay to the Litchfield Wild Horse and Burro Facility in California. The contract has a period of performance from April 2, 2025, to March 30, 2026. The original solicitation was a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 111940 (Hay Farming) for 2,500 tons of alfalfa hay. Retterath Cattle Company, the previous...
- This federal contract award, valued at $762,750.00, was issued by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) National Office to Retterath Cattle Company, a small business located in Janesville, California. The contract is for the supply of approximately 4,500 tons of alfalfa hay to the BLM's National Wild Horse and Burro Center at Palomino Valley, Nevada. This procurement was set aside for 100% small business participation under NAICS code 111940 (Hay Farming). The period of performance is from...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $334,150 firm fixed-price purchase order to Bar Cross Construction, Inc., a small business contractor, on April 8, 2025, for the procurement and delivery of hay to support wild horses and burros at the Double Devil Wild Horse Corrals in Modoc National Forest. The contract requires delivery of 685 total tons of hay, comprising 600 tons of grass hay (in varieties such as Meadow, Blue, Timothy, Orchard, Coastal, or Bermuda) and 85 tons...
- The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Utah Region awarded a $318,312 firm fixed price purchase order to Les Sweeting doing business as Alfalfa Products. The contract calls for delivery of 800 tons of alfalfa hay meeting specifications to the agency's Wild Horse and Burro Facility in Delta, Utah between September 20 and December 20, 2022. The original solicitation sought domestically grown leafy alfalfa hay containing at least 50% alfalfa, free of weeds and grains with long...
- The Bureau of Land Management awarded a $315,000 firm fixed-price purchase order to Retterath Cattle Company, a small business sole proprietorship based in Janesville, California, for the supply of grass hay to the Palomino Valley Wild Horse & Burro Center in Reno, Nevada. The contract, designated as a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 111940 (Hay Farming), requires delivery of 3-string grass hay bales weighing approximately 95 pounds, suitable for stacking and use with hay...
- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $59,964.30 firm fixed price purchase order to Retterath Cattle Company, a small business sole proprietorship, for 300 tons of grass hay to be delivered by September 15, 2019. The hay, which consists of timothy, brome, and orchard grass, is for use as animal feed in BLM's wild horse and burro programs. This award was made under a total small business set-aside solicitation, with NAICS codes 111940 (Hay Farming) and 115210 (Support Activities...
- The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management California Region awarded Vita Leaf Inc, a California corporation, a $579,799.60 firm fixed price purchase order contract to deliver 2,000 tons of hay with options for an additional 400 tons to various BLM locations in California. The contract has a period of performance from February 18, 2020 through February 15, 2021. The primary place of performance will be in Lancaster, California. This contract was set aside for total small...
- This federal contract award is for the purchase of 1,800 tons of grass and alfalfa hay to supply the Ridgecrest Regional Wild Horse & Burro (WH&B) Facility in California. The contract, valued at $471,131.44, was awarded by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) California Region to Vita-Leaf Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order with a period of performance from August 2023 to February 2024. This...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), California Region, awarded a $410,000 firm fixed-price purchase order to John C Barnum, doing business as Barnum Land & Cattle (UEI: D1SJWMA6EG93), on April 1, 2026, for the procurement and delivery of 2,000 tons of alfalfa hay to support the Litchfield Wild Horse and Burro Facility in Litchfield, California. The contract, designated as a Total Small Business set-aside under NAICS code 111940 (Hay Farming), requires delivery of two distinct hay types: 1,000 tons in small 3-twine bales weighing 100-130 pounds each, and 1,000 tons in large 34 bales weighing 1,200-1,500 pounds each. All hay must be sourced from 2025/2026 domestic crops, sun-cured, maintain crude protein levels between 12-18 percent, and be certified free of mold, dust, weeds, and contaminants. The performance period extends from April 1, 2026, through November 30, 2026, with F.O.B. Destination delivery to Highway 395 East in Litchfield, California. Deliveries are restricted to weekday hours between 7:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and the contractor must provide three workdays' advance notice to the Contracting Officer's Representative with each shipment. The contractor bears responsibility for all offloading equipment and shipping costs, included in the firm fixed-price quotation, and must submit state-certified weight tickets with each delivery. Given the facility's 800-ton barn capacity and animal consumption rates, the contractor may be required to adjust delivery schedules or bale configurations based on operational needs. The solicitation was evaluated on price alone, with offerors required to maintain active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) database and acceptable Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) records.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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LITCHFIELD ALFALFA FY 2026 | 140L1226Q0005 | Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management California Region | Solicitation 1/2 | 3/10/26, 2:21 PM | |
LITCHFIELD ALFALFA FY 2026 | 140L1226Q0005 | Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management California Region | Award Notice 2/2 | 4/1/26, 3:31 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $410.0k | 3/31/26 |