Blanket Purchase Agreement 127EAV21A0010

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Southwestern and Pacific Southwest Regions awarded Chalmers Ford, Inc. a multiple award blanket purchase agreement to provide emergency equipment installation services on fire command, pickup trucks, SUVs and utility vehicles. Task order call contracts under the BPA total over $3.5 million and include upfitting vehicles with specialized equipment such as red lights, sirens, striping packages and radio consoles at locations in New Mexico, Arizona, California and Nevada through January 2024. This supports the agency's CONT 0316 program to modernize its engineering fleet used for wildland fire management operations.

Specific task orders awarded to Chalmers Ford involve outfitting over 125 vehicles for 14 national forests across the regions. Work includes a $774k order to outfit vehicles in Albuquerque through January 2024, a $315k order for 27 vehicles in Chandler through May 2022, and orders valued at $218k, $253k, $233k and $322k to install equipment on vehicles in Albuquerque, Mesa and Phoenix by October 2022. No set-aside provisions were applied under the total small business set-aside original solicitation seeking qualified vendors to upfit fire command vehicles with emergency equipment for improved fleet support of wildland fire response.