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BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

SEED COLLECTION

MOCK CALL ORDER

Mock Call Order

1. INTRODUCTION

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages 10% of lands in the entire USA, from grasslands to high desert, from coastal areas to alpine forests. An immense diversity of native plant communities, many rare or endangered, define the character of these lands. Seeds of

Success (SOS) is the national native seed collection program, led by the Bureau of Land

Management (BLM) in partnership with a variety of federal agencies and non-federal organizations. The purpose of the SOS program is to establish a national, high quality, accurately identified and well documented native plant species seed collections. All seed collected can be used for native seed increase, support development of geographically appropriate native plant materials that will increase the effectiveness of Bureau restoration projects and emergency stabilization and rehabilitation efforts.

The PCRP supports implementation of seed collection activities, provides technical support to other programs on native plant community management and implementation of vegetation management (and restoration) projects that support BLM mission, departmental and administration goals such as shared conservation stewardship, improving wildlife and game species habitat thus improving opportunities for hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation. Data collection often occurs in remote locations, where cellular connection is unavailable or inconsistent.

2. SCOPE

This call order is for planning and conducting native seed collections. The contractor shall provide all labor, equipment, strategic planning, data collection entry and management, GIS mapping, supervision and management of all logistical details (including permit application and access coordination with local BLM and other agency offices) to perform the required services.

The contractor shall plan and implement 10 SOS native seed collections (minimum 10,000 seeds per collection) and 10 operational collections (minimum 80,000 seeds per collection) in the following location:

Columbia Plateau (see map at end of document)

Seed scouting and collection is estimated to be performed March 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024.

All SOS forms, collected seed, and voucher specimens shall be completed and delivered to the

BLM office no later than October 31, 2024. All data collection and entry will also be completed by this date.

3. TASKS

TASK 1- PLANNING SEED COLLECTIONS

A target species list is included at the end of this document. The list is targeted at filling in seed collection gaps of priority species in priority seed transfer zones. The contractor shall use BLM furnished information and geospatial tools to identify areas that have not been previously scouted from and/or collected from and avoid conducting collections along major roads or where bulk collections have previously been completed.

The contractor shall produce a work plan that describes training, logistics and deployment of field crews for the season within thirty business days after award.

TASK 2 – SCOUTING AND SEED COLLECTION

The contractor shall identify at least 60 potential SOS collection locations. Once analysis has been completed, the contractor shall go to those sites to locate potential plant populations for seed.

The BLM will provide a reporting tool via ArcGIS Online (AGOL) for scouting and collection data. BLM will provide the contractor a one-time live training webinar on how to use AGOL.

The contractor will sync their data at the end of each field hitch, or at a minimum every 10 days

(whichever is more frequent).

At the end of each scouting and collection trip (or at a minimum every 10 days), the contractor shall input additional information in a spreadsheet provided by BLM at the kickoff meeting, on the number of miles of roads and trails traveled, the number of potential seed collection sites assessed, the number of seed collection sites monitored for seed ripening, etc. BLM will provide contractor field crews and staff a live training webinar on how to use AGOL and the AGOL

Reporting Tool, and how data will be input to the tracking spreadsheet.

At a minimum, each collection team will need a contractor furnished internet enabled workstation and a mobile device for remote collection outside of cell service using Field Maps and Survey123 apps to report to ArcGIS Online. It is recommended the contractor use iOS or

Android tablets, smart phone, or similar devices with at least 128 GB or greater and cellular enabled for GPS capability to access and download files while working in the field and upload when they have connectivity.

The contractor shall make SOS collections using the BLM SOS protocol www.blm.gov/SOS.

The BLM will provide an annual SOS training session. The contractor shall complete and submit SOS data forms through the SOS web portal. The contractor is responsible for ensuring all personnel are trained in the SOS protocol.

The contractor shall schedule biweekly coordination meetings with the BLM COR to review the status of scouting and collection activities.

http://www.blm.gov/SOS

The contractor shall dry and process and package seed according to SOS Protocol. The contractor shall coordinate with the COR for shipping the seed from BLM office to Bend Seed

Extractory.

4. STANDARDS OF ACCEPTABLE PERFORMANCE

Standards of acceptable performance for seed collections include the following:

1. Seed collections with corresponding data are made following the SOS protocol.

2. Quantity of Pure Live Seed (PLS) must meet BLM specifications.

5. REQUIRED KEY PERSONNEL

The individual who participates in planning seed collection sites and managing seed collection crews shall have the following qualifications as described in the BPA:

● Senior Botanist

6. DELIVERABLES

• Work Plan

• Scouting Data

• Collection Data

• Herbarium Vouchers

• Collected Seed Prepared for Shipping

7. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED INFORMATION

The BLM will provide access to BLM corporate datasets and other BLM data available

(such as GIS data).

8. FIELD SITE ACCESS

Access to sites will vary from public access to access across private land to get to the sites. Some sites will need to be accessed either by a 4-wheel drive vehicle or by foot. Contact with private landowner will occur prior to access by the contractor. The contractor shall contact the private landowner with the assistance of the BLM.

9. CONTRACTOR FURNISHED PROPERTY

Contractor shall be responsible for all equipment and incidentals necessary to complete the project. The contractor is responsible for determining all equipment and incidentals necessary to complete the project.

10. QUALITY ASSURANCE & QUALITY CONTROL

Contractor shall complete SOS data forms to 95% accuracy.

All work shall be checked and technically reviewed and approved in accordance with BLM Seed

Collection policies, directives, and guidelines.

The contractor shall relay this information to a crew lead who shall coordinate with BLM staff to plan and organize, manage, and QA/QC field data collected by crews for the season.

11. CONTRACT TYPE AND PAYMENT SCHEDULE

Contractor may invoice no more than once per month. Contractor may invoice based on the percentage of scouting/collection data delivered and accepted in relation to the percentage of the total firm fixed price. Travel will be reimbursed based on actual costs using Federal Travel Regulations and GSA per diem as reference.

Deliverable % of Total Firm Fixed Price

Scouting Data 35%

Collection Data 35%

Delivered Seed, Vouchers, Final

Data

30%

12. IDENTIFICATION OF CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEES

All contract personnel are required to identify themselves as contractors. Whether attending meetings or working in other situations where their contractor status is not obvious to third parties, they must make their status known to avoid creating an impression that they are

Government employees.

Target Species List

Most preferred, meets three categories from Natural Areas Journal Vol. 36 (4), 2016

Common name Latin name Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium Mountain Dandelion Agoseris glauca Annual agroseris Agoseris heterophylla taper-tip onion Allium acuminatum Geyer's onion Allium geyeri fragile onion Allium scilloides Pearly everlasting Anaphalis margaritacea Low pussytoes Antennaria dimorpha rosy pussytoes Antennaria rosea Narrow-leaved pussytoes Antennaria stenophylla Threadstalk milkvetch Astragalus filipes Freckled milkvetch Astragalus lentiginosus Arcane milkvetch Astragalus obscurus Leiberg's milkvetch Astragalus leibergii Lyall's milkvetch Astragalus lyallii Wooly pod milkvetch Astragalus purshii Yakima milk-vetch Astragalus reventiformis stalked-pod milk-vetch Astragalus sclerocarpus Spalding's milk-vetch Astragalus spaldingii Curve-pod milk-vetch Astragalus speriocarpus sprawling milk-vetch Astragalus succumbens Carey's balsamroot Balsamorhiza careyana Hairy Balsamroot Balsamorhiza hookeri Arrowleaf balsamroot Balsamorhiza sagittata Nuttall's povertyweed Blitum nuttallianum black-flowered rockcress Boechera atrorubens Cusick's rockcress Boechera cusickii Columbia rockcress Boechera pauciflora danglepod rockcress Boechera pendulocarpa

Boechera polyantha Boechera retrofracta elegant rockcress Boechera sparsiflora Sagebrush mariposa lily Calochortus macrocarpus annual paintbrush Castilleja minor Thompson's Indian paintbrush Castilleja thompsonii Douglas' dustymaiden Chaenactis douglasii Blue-eyed mary Collinsia parviflora Bastard toadflax Comandra umbellata Long-leaved hawksbeard Crepis acuminata Slender hawksbeard Crepis atribarba Modoc hawksbeard Crepis modocensis Western hawksbeard Crepis occidentalis dandelion hawksbeard Crepis runcinata

Medium preference, meets 2 categories from above (exception Eriogonum, publication only identified annuals as meeting three categories

Western prairie-clover Dalea ornata Hoary aster Dieteria canescens thread-leaved sandwort Eremogone capillaris ballhead sandwort Eremogone congesta Frankin's sandwort Eremogone franklinii Foothill daisy Erigeron corymbosus Threadleaf fleabane Erigeron filifolius Desert daisy Erigeron linearis cusion fleabane Erigeron poliospermus Shaggy daisy Erigeron pumilus arrowleaf buckwheat Eriogonum compositum Creamy buckwheat Eriogonum heracleoides snow buckwheat Eriogonum niveum

Eriogonum sphaerocephalum Thyme buckwheat Eriogonum thymoides purple-stem monkey-flower Erythranthe floribunda small-leaved monkey-flower Erythranthe microphylla yellow bells Fritillaria pudica sticky purple geranium Geranium viscosissimum prairie smoke Geum triflorum Columbia gumweed Grindelia hirsutula Curlycup gumweed Grindelia squarrosa Harkness Gilia Linanthus harknessii Western blue flax Linum lewisii puccoon / western stoneseed Lithospermum ruderale swale desert-parsley Lomatium ambiguum cous desert-parsley Lomatium cous fern-leaved desert parsley Lomatium dissectum Hamblen's lomatium Lomatium farinosum Geyer's desert-parsley Lomatium geyeri salt and pepper Lomatium gormanii gray lomatium Lomatium grayi Bigseed biscuitroot Lomatium macrocarpum Nineleaf biscuitroot Lomatium triternatum Velvet lupine Lupinus leucophyllus Silky lupine Lupinus sericeus sulphur lupine Lupinus sulphureus white-stem blazingstar Mentzelia albicaulis bushy blazing star Mentzelia dispersa giant blazing star Mentzelia laevicaulis Leafy bluebells Mertensia longiflora Sagebrush bluebells Mertensia oblongifolia Nodding microseris Microseris nutans slender phlox Microsteris gracilis Sagebrush false dandelion Nothocalais troximoides lesser yellow beardtongue Penstemon confertus gairdner's penstemon Penstemon gairdneri Chelan beardtongue Penstemon pruinosus Richardson's penstemon Penstemon richardsonii showy penstemon Penstemon speciosus yellow bee plant Peritoma lutea whiteleaf phacelia Phacelia hastata low phacelia Phacelia humilis thread-leaf scorpion-weed Phacelia linearis branched phacelia Phacelia ramossisima stiff phlox Phlox caespitosa Hood's phlox Phlox hoodii

Longleaf Phlox Phlox longifolia showy phlox Phlox speciosa Sagebrush buttercup Ranunculus glaberrimus Canada goldenrod Solidago canadensis Missouri goldenrod Solidago missouriensis Gooseberry-leaved globemallow Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia Scarlet globemallow Sphaeralcea munroana Long-leaved aster Symphyotrichum ascendens Big-head clover Trifolium macrocephalum Douglas' brodiaea Triteleia grandiflora American vetch Vicia americana

Task Order Exhibit C Priority Seed Collection Area