The Bureau of Land Management awarded multiple Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts under Solicitation 140L0620R0002 to support hazardous fuels reduction efforts across six western states and Utah. The IDIQ contracts have a potential value of $5M each and a period of performance through August 2025. Task orders issued to GE Forestry, Inc. under the contracts include manual hazardous fuels reductions services, thinning operations, hazard tree removal, habitat restoration work and similar land management activities. Task orders were awarded by BLM procurement offices in Colorado, Idaho, Montana-Dakotas, Utah and Wyoming, with places of performance across the seven stated regions. Contract types include firm-fixed price and completion dates range from 2021 through 2025. The solicitations were set aside 100% for small businesses conducting fuels management services. The contracts aim to procure specialized services to aid the BLM's wildland fire management and sustainable stewardship of public lands through reducing hazardous forest fuels and improving forest health.
The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management utilized the Multiple Award IDIQ contracts to issue over a dozen delivery orders to GE Forestry, Inc. for a variety of land management services across the western U.S. between 2020-2022. Task orders awarded on firm-fixed price bases ranged in value from $7,000 to $267,000, with periods of performance from three months to over two years supporting programs like hazardous fuels reduction, habitat restoration, and forestry applications research on BLM-managed public lands.