USFS Northern CA Reforestation IDIQ 2017-2022

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 5-Pacific Southwest Region established a Master IDIQ for reforestation and related services on six Northern California national forests (Klamath, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta-Trinity, and Six Rivers) on April 3, 2017, with a shared ceiling of $6.9 million and an ordering deadline of March 31, 2019. Ordering closed more than seven years ago and the vehicle is no longer active for new task orders.

The vehicle executed 48 delivery orders between April 2017 and May 2020, with activity concentrating in the first two years: 23 orders in 2017, 11 in 2018, 9 in 2019, and 5 in 2020. The vehicle is fully obligated; combined task-order potential value totals $6.2 million against the $6.9 million ceiling. Work contracted under the vehicle spans tree planting (typically 300 trees per acre or hoedad planting across 30 to 3,400 acres per order), manual release and grubbing of competing vegetation in conifer plantations, pre-commercial thinning, hand piling and fuel treatment operations, and vegetation control around disease-resistant sugar pines. Typical task-order values range from roughly $13 thousand to $930 thousand, with most orders spanning 40 to 1,000 acres.

Competition concentrated among forestry contractors: G E Forestry, Inc. held 13 orders worth $2.5 million (about 40% of combined potential value), Imperial Forestry, Incorporated held 9 orders worth $1.3 million, and MP Forestry, Incorporated held 5 orders worth $596 thousand. These three primes captured approximately 75% of awarded orders. Nine distinct prime contractors shared the vehicle.

Set-aside activity split roughly two-to-one: 31 orders (65%) were unrestricted, and 17 orders (35%) were designated Total Small Business. Essentially all orders (47 of 48) were placed by the Pacific Southwest Region contracting office; a single order flowed through the national Forest Service organization. All delivery orders were firm fixed price. Common work locations included the Hat Creek Ranger District of Lassen National Forest, the South Fork and Shasta-McCloud management units of Shasta-Trinity, the Salmon/Scott River Ranger District of Klamath, and the Almanor Ranger District of Lassen.

Master IDIQ for reforestation and related services on the Klamath, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta-Trinity and Six Rivers national forests.