Blanket Purchase Agreement 140F0S24A0048

This Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) was awarded by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service to Nathan Large, a small disadvantaged business registered as a sole proprietorship. The BPA has a total ceiling of $49,500,000 over a five-year period of performance from March 2024 through March 2029. It is a multiple award vehicle set aside for small businesses to provide hazardous fuels reduction services, including mechanical clearing and chemical/herbicide application, across the contiguous United States and Guam to support habitat restoration, rangeland management, and other programs on public lands managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Past orders under the BPA ranged from $9,975 to $64,400 for mowing, fuel break raking, grass removal, and other landscaping services. Nathan Large has experience providing similar services to other federal agencies like the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Army Corps of Engineers.

The original solicitation for this BPA was issued by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service in November 2023 with responses due by January 2024. It sought to establish multiple BPAs for hazardous fuels reduction to be competed among the awarded small business contractors on a best value or lowest price technically acceptable basis depending on the task order requirements. The solicitation had a NAICS code of 115310 for support activities for forestry with a small business size standard exception.