BIA SW Region Technical Forest Management 2016-2017

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Albuquerque Acquisition Office established this Master IDIQ on May 24, 2016 to provide technical forest management writing, mapping and digitizing, and forest inventories for the Southwest Region Forestry & Wildland Fire Program across reservation forests in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. Ordering closed on August 31, 2019, and the vehicle is no longer active.

The vehicle executed 26 task orders with a combined potential value of $632 thousand, fully obligated. Task orders concentrated heavily in 2018 and 2020, with nine orders each year; activity in 2016, 2017, and 2019 was substantially lighter at three, four, and one order respectively. The final task order awarded in September 2020 was issued after the ordering deadline had passed, indicating administrative completion of remaining commitments.

Work divides among forest management planning and documentation (writing environmental assessments and forest management plans), forest inventory analysis and continuous forest inventory data collection, and mapping and digitization across named Pueblo and Tribe reservations including Jicarilla Apache, Mescalero Apache, Zuni, Acoma, San Ildefonso, Laguna, Ute Mountain Ute, and Southern Ute. Task order ceiling values typically ranged from $2,000 to $40,000, with outliers at $68,138 (Zuni mapping and digitizing) and $113,934 (Jicarilla Apache mapping and digitizing).

Competition favored two primes. Bric LLC held 11 orders for $231 thousand combined potential value; Bell Geographic LLC held nine orders for $205 thousand. Ecosystem Management, Inc. and Family Tree Forestry Services, LLC together held the remaining six orders. The customer base consisted exclusively of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Southwest Region. Nearly all task orders (25 of 26) were unrestricted; one order to Mescalero in September 2016 carried an Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise set-aside.

The contractor shall provide TECHNICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT WRITING, MAPPING & DIGITIZING, AND FOREST INVENTORIES Services to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Southwest Region, Forestry & Wildland Fire Program. Place of performance are the Reservation Forest in AZ, CO, NM, TX & UT.