Black Hills National Forest Botany

This Master IDIQ vehicle, awarded by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R2-Rocky Mountain Region in July 2015, is closed to new orders as of March 31, 2020. The ordering period ended six years ago; this vehicle is no longer available for pursuit.

The contract was structured as a competitive multiple-award IDIQ for botanical surveys in the Black Hills National Forest, supporting timber harvesting, range management, prescribed fire, and other forest management activities. Work included watershed planning surveys and invasive species inventories across multiple ranger districts and forest zones in Wyoming and South Dakota, with data shared with heritage programs in both states.

Only one prime contractor, Mergen Ecological Delineations, Inc., was awarded under this vehicle and holds all seven task orders issued between April 2016 and August 2019. The Forest Service issued orders on a sporadic basis—four in 2016, one in 2018, and two in 2019—with no activity after August 2019. All task orders were awarded on a firm fixed-price basis with durations typically ranging from six to fourteen months. Individual order values ranged from $23,248.50 to $85,038.10, with the combined task-order potential value totaling $322 thousand, fully obligated.

Fifty-seven percent of task orders carried a small-business set-aside designation; the remainder were unrestricted awards. The vehicle served only the Forest Service R2-Rocky Mountain Region as a customer; no other federal agencies placed orders against it.

This vehicle is expired and not available for new work. Existing or pending work may remain under already-awarded task orders, but no new task orders can be issued.

The Black Hills National Forest is advertising for interested contractors to provide proposals for a competitive multiple award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with option years covering botanical surveys of watershed planning units for timber harvesting activities, range management, prescribed fire, and a host of other activities. The purpose of this work is to collect information to be used in making management decisions. Information collected will be shared with the Wyoming and South Dakota Heritage Programs.