The federal contract IDV award is for a $7,000,000 Indefinite Delivery Contract with the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, for manual fuels services in northern California. The prime contractor is Pacific Coast Contracting Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Eureka, California that specializes in forestry, land management, and wildland fire services for civilian federal agencies.
The original pre-solicitation notice described the requirement for a contractor to furnish labor, equipment, transportation, and materials to remove, dispose, pump, excavate, and install improvements for campground water systems at four locations in Trinity County, California. The work was set aside for small businesses, with an estimated value between $100,000 and $250,000 and a targeted start date of April 1, 2020. The contract includes requirements for bid guarantees, as well as performance and payment bonds. The resulting IDV provides a flexible acquisition vehicle for the Forest Service to issue task orders for a variety of land management services, including pre-commercial thinning, hand treatments, mastication, tree planting, prescribed burns, and wildland fire management across federal lands in the Western United States.