The Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has awarded a multiple award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) to establish Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements (I-BPAs) for miscellaneous heavy equipment to support wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incidents, and prescribed project work in the Pacific Northwest Region 6. The contract is set aside for small businesses and has a total potential value of $250,000.
The awarded prime contractor is Trent Everett William Jones, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract will provide equipment, personnel, training, and certification for a variety of heavy construction equipment to be utilized on an as-needed basis by the Forest Service and other cooperating agencies within the Pacific Northwest Region. Proposed rates are based on up to 16-hour daily shifts and the agreements will be competitively awarded within the available regional dispatch centers closest to the contractors' resource locations. The contract has a 5-year period of performance from May 2024 to May 2029.