3. Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP).docx

Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP)

Mechanical and Herbicide Treatment Category Woody Vegetation

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Less than 10% mortality to non-target plant species’; or values specified on the task order.

Visual and random GPS sampling

AND

Less than 10% mortality to non-target plant species’; or values specified on the task order.

Visual and random GPS sampling

AND

Less than 10% mortality to non-target plant species’; or values specified on the task order Visual and random GPS sampling

Foliar Herbicide Treatment Category Herbaceous Flowering Plants, Grasses, and Vines/Semi-woody Vines

AND

Less than 10% mortality to non-target plant species’; or values specified on the task order.

Visual and random GPS sampling

Foliar Herbicide Treatment Category Herbaceous Flowering Plants, Grasses, and Vines/Semi-woody Vines

Inspections (non-Line Item)

NOTES:

1. Meeting the AQL for Line Items: Meeting or exceeding the acceptable kill ratio on target NNIS but exceeding the specified mortality value to non-target desirable plants, will result in the same reduction because the Contractor(s) did not meet all elements of the AQL values. Additionally, Contractor(s) must reapply the required herbicide at their expense upon failure to meet AQL values at the final inspection for each task order contract line item where the work performed failed to reach the minimum acceptable target kill ratio of the NNIS infestation(s).

2. Inspection: The Forest Service considers passing inspections (interim or final) to be critical. In an attempt to limit re-inspections, the Forest Service has elected to apply a disincentive when an area is inspected, and the AQL is not met. The Forest Service strives for effective and efficient contract administration; one of way of promoting this is to limit the need for re-inspections.

3. If contractor achieves less than 50% of AQL in any unit after re-work, a 50% deduction in payment will be applied to that unit, unless that outcome is beyond the control of the contractor.

4. Payment for Line Items B002 (followed by foliar spot spray) and B003 (followed by basal barking) will be 90% upon completion of first year of treatment (as long as Quality Standard and AQL have been met for that year-e.g. as soon as you can see effects of herbicide, which could take about 30 days), and then the remaining 10% after either 1) monitoring the next spring shows no retreatment needed, OR 2) monitoring the next spring shows treatment needed, and they retreat, and they again meet Quality Standard and the AQL. Cost of 1st year treatment and 2nd year monitoring and possible retreatment should be included in total per acre costs on the price schedule in Section B.