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OFFER. If by virtue of this amendment you desire to change an offer already submitted , such change may be made by letter or electronic communication, provided each letter or electronic communication makes reference to the solicitation and this amendment, and is received prior to the opening hour and date specified.

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13. THIS ITEM ONLY APPLIES TO MODIFICATION OF CONTRACTS/ORDERS. IT MODIFIES THE CONTRACT/ORDER NO. AS DESCRIBED IN ITEM 14.

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The above numbered solicitation is amended as set forth in Item 14. The hour and date specified for receipt of Offers

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AMENDMENT OF SOLICITATION/MODIFICATION OF CONTRACT

08/28/2023

CHECK ONE A. THIS CHANGE ORDER IS ISSUED PURSUANT TO: (Specify authority) THE CHANGES SET FORTH IN ITEM 14 ARE MADE IN THE CONTRACT

B. THE ABOVE NUMBERED CONTRACT/ORDER IS MODIFIED TO REFLECT THE ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES (such as changes in paying office, C. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT IS ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY OF:

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E. IMPORTANT: Contractor is not is required to sign this document and return __________________ copies to the issuing office.

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15C. DATE SIGNED 16B. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 15B. CONTRACTOR/OFFEROR 16C. DATE SIGNED

(Signature of person authorized to sign) (Signature of Contracting Officer)

GILBERT C. CHONJE

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14. DESCRIPTION OF AMENDMENT/MODIFICATION (Organized by UCF section headings, including solicitation/contract subject matter where feasible.)

The purpose of this amendment is to:

1. Add the revised statement of work.

2. Change the Point of Contact to Gilbert Chonje - gilbert.chonje@usda.gov

3.Add contractor questions and government responses from site visit conducted on 31 August 2023.

Please note the Point of Contact's email address of gilbert.chonje@usda.gov all proposals shall be sent to this email address by the due date and time.

Also note the revised proposal due date of 22 September 2023 at 10:00am Eastern Time.

Except as provided herein, all terms and conditions of the document referenced in Item 9 A or 10A, as heretofore changed, remains unchanged and in full force and effect .

Statement of Work (SOW) Pierson Park Phase 1 Mechanical Fuelbreak Service Contract

STATEMENT OF WORK

INTRODUCTION

Background To promote conditions that provide greater opportunities for successful wildfire suppression, the Forest Service is proposing to create and maintain linear fuel breaks on National Forest Service land, south of U.S. Highway 34 and east of Colorado State Highway 7, near Estes Park, Colorado. Shaded fuel breaks are planned to be created along NFSRs and county roads by reducing surface, ladder, and canopy fuels along these features. Treatments would be conducted along Pierson Park Road (NFSR 119), Johnny Park Road (NFSR 118) to County Road 47, and NFSR segments to the northeast and southwest of U.S. Highway 36.

Scope of Contract This service contract is for thinning of trees to reduce canopy densities and remove ladder fuels, hazard tree removals, surface fuel reduction, and piling of slash and other surface fuels for burning. Optional item for pruning of trees along road and control lines (private property). The Contractor shall furnish all labor, equipment, supervision, transportation, supplies (except those designated as Government furnished), and incidentals to safely perform all work necessary on the areas specified. All aspects of the work program shall be performed in an organized, systematic manner to assure services will be performed over the entire unit.

Location and Description Treatment Units are located in T4N, R72W, Sections 30 and 31; and T3N, R72W, Sections 6 and 7.

DEFINITIONS:

1. Acceptable Quality Level (AQL): Acceptance of work will be based on compliance with all specifications corresponding to the appropriate task(s); refer to the Performance Requirements Summary of the contract. A minimum AQL is required for all service work – hand or mechanical.

The minimum AQL will receive a satisfactory performance rating.

2. Biomass Trees: Any conifer material from 2 feet in height to 4.9 inches DBH.

3. Bole Spacing: The horizontal distance in feet from the edge of one leave tree bole to another leave tree bole, measured from the outside bark of each tree.

4. Circular Plot: A sample plot within a thinning unit that is used to determine the number of desirable trees and other contract specifications.

5. Coarse Woody Debris: Woody material left on the ground to meet wildlife habitat requirements.

6. Crown Ratio: The ratio of live crown length (tip of leader to base of the crown) to total tree length/height.

7. Crown Spacing: The horizontal distance in feet between the dripline of a live crown to the dripline of another live crown.

8. Clearcut: A cutting prescription in which all trees within a boundary are designated to be cut.

9. Created Slash: Slash (woody material such as tops, limbs, and boles) that is created from contract operations.

10. Crown Ratio: The ratio of live crown length (tip of leader to base of the crown) to total tree length/height.

11. Crown Spacing: The horizontal distance in feet between the dripline of a live crown to another live crown.

12. Cut Trees: Trees that do not possess the characteristics of desirable leave trees and are required to be cut. As described by the contract or otherwise marked to be cut.

13. Cutting Unit: See Treatment Unit definition.

14. Damaged Trees: Trees damaged beyond recovery. A tree that is larger than 2 feet in height, and has the top knocked out, is leaning more than 10 degrees, has less than one half of its original limbs, or has approximately 50% of bark removed from the circumference of the bole.

15. DBH: Diameter at breast height, measured at a point of 4.5 feet above the ground level on the uphill side of the tree.

16. Decking: Stockpiling of trees in a designated area.

17. Dead/Dying Trees: Trees with the crown foliage changing from green to red, yellow, or needleless. Any tree that has pitch tubes indicating Mountain Pine Beetle infestation.

18. Designation By Species And Diameter (DXSD): A cutting prescription in which species and diameter are used to determine which trees will be left and which will be cut.

19. DIB: Diameter inside bark.

20. Dripline: The area directly located under the outer circumference of the tree branches.

21. Existing Slash: Surface fuels (woody material such as tops, limbs, and boles) that exist prior to contract operations.

22. Hang-Up Tree: Any cut tree suspended above ground level.

23. Healthy Regeneration: Young, healthy, dwarf mistletoe free conifers, less than 4.9 inches in diameter, free of defect.

24. Inner gorge: A narrow valley between higher elevations, typically with steep side walls; may or may not have water running through it.

25. Leave Tree: Trees that possess desirable characteristics and that serve to create the basis for designated spacing requirements or are otherwise designated to be left.

26. Non-Sawtimber Tree: For all conifer species, trees >5.6 inches stump diameter that do not meet minimum sawtimber specifications.

27. Overstory Removal: A cutting prescription where all trees greater than a specified size are cut.

Trees less than the specified size are protected.

28. Payment Unit: See Treatment Unit.

29. Performance Requirements Summary (PRS): Identifies the key service outputs of the contract that will be evaluated by the Government to assure contract performance standards are met by the Contractor.

30. Piling: Material moved to an agreed upon location shall be piled for future treatment by Forest Service.

31. Progression Of Work: Work shall be conducted in a progressive, workmanlike and orderly manner by the Contractor.

32. Reserve Areas: Areas reserved or excluded from treatment that are located within the treatment unit and are identified in writing by the Government. Reserve areas may be identified prior to award, or may be identified by the Government during contract performance.

Reserve areas may include, but are not limited to:

a. Rock Outcrops – areas where more than 70% of the ground surface is exposed bedrock.

b. Wetlands/wet areas – areas where the water table is close to or at the ground surface.

c. Fens – areas where saturated soil has a peat component to the vegetation.

d. Perennial Streams – areas where water is present year round in stream channel.

e. Inoperable Ground – as determined by the Government and identified in writing.

f. Resource protection – areas designated by Government to be reserved for protection of plants, animals, minerals, and/or cultural or heritage sites.

33. Sawtimber Tree: Included timber meeting sawlog size specifications as defined in Appendix, Division A.

34. Slash: Woody material existing or created that has accumulated on the forest floor. Woody material includes logs, pieces of logs, tops, and branches.

35. Spacing: Horizontal measured distance between live leave trees. May be identified as either

Crown Spacing or Bole Spacing.

36. Unit: See Treatment Unit.

37. Temporary Roads: Non-permanent roads that are constructed by Contractor for the purpose of treatment unit access.

38. Treatment Unit: An individual area on the ground in which activities will be performed and which may appear as a separate pay item in the Schedule of Items.

39. Unsatisfactory Work: Work that does not meet contract specifications or does not meet the minimum Acceptable Quality Level (AQL). If work quality falls below the AQL, the COR will issue a work order or notice of noncompliance to the Contractor in writing. Untreated or unsatisfactory treated areas shall be reworked to obtain satisfactory work quality.

40. Wetland: Bog, marsh, swamp, spring, fen, seep etc.; general term for poorly-drained uncultivated tract, whatever its vegetative cover type.

41. Whole Tree Logging: Whole tree logging requires cutting the tree and removing the entire tree, including tops and branches, to the landing.

42. Wildlife Tree: Standing tree marked to be reserved as a wildlife tree. Used by birds and small mammals for shelter, nesting, perching, etc.

GOVERNMENT FURNISHED PROPERTY

The property and services that will be provided by the Government are as follows:

Item Description Where, When, How C.3.1 Contract Area Map Map of units with access roads identified. Provided with contract

CONTRACTOR WORK REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS:

See Appendix A

The Contractor shall furnish the necessary personnel, material, equipment, services and facilities (except as otherwise specified), to perform the Statement of Work/Specifications referenced in Appendix A.

The attachments to the Statement of Work/Specifications listed in Appendix A are hereby made part of this solicitation and any resultant contract.

CONTRACTOR QUALITY CONTROL PLAN

Quality Control Plan

The Contractor shall provide a Quality Control Plan (QCP) with the technical proposal. The Contractor shall supplement the QCP within 30 days of contract award based on items awarded to the Contractor and Government comments. The general Quality Control Plan shall demonstrate how the Contractor will assure quality meets the requirements and specifications of the contract. It shall specify how quality will be monitored to assure the performance standards are met; the supervision of crew and work; and the personnel that will be performing the quality control. Quality control includes the monitoring of quality while work is in progress and an unbiased sample of thinning, yarding of down material, processing, slash treatment, and other work to determine actual quality percentage.

Contractor Control Plots The Contractor shall maintain a plot system that provides an unbiased sample of thinning quality, and slash treatment quality and which represents the entire area treated. Plots are not to be altered during Contractor sampling to ensure unbiased samples, representative of the entire unit and thinning quality. Observed alteration of plots may be noted and Contractor’s inspection may be rejected. Incomplete inspection forms may be rejected by the COR. The plot size shall be 1/20 acre.

Minimum number of plots per unit are shown in table below. The Government may observe or re-inspect the Contractor’s plots at any time.

The minimum number of plots, per treatment unit, shall be as follows:

Unit Acreage Minimum Number of Plots 1 – 9 1 plot per 2 acres

10 – 29 10 plots 30 – 59 1 plot per 4 acres 60 – 99 20 plots

100 1 plot per 5 acres Contractor clearly shall mark and identify each inspection plot on the ground.

Contractor shall provide a sketch map with plot locations and written inspection data by unit that meets contract requirements including signature from Contractor’s representative that states inspection was completed.

All Contractor inspection records shall be provided to the Government based on the schedule proposed by the Contractor and agreed to by the Contracting Officer for quality assurance assessment consistent with the Government Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan. The person who conducted the Contractor’s inspection shall sign and date each sheet and certify that the inspection records are complete and accurate.

Site Visit on 31 August 2023 Contractor Ques�ons and Government Responses

Contractor Ques�on: The coarse woody down material (CWD) on the map is listed as removal. Does this mean that the material will have to be removed by hauling it off the contract site?

Forest Service responded: The CWD material must be skidded to the landing loca�ons and piled with other slash per C6.7# - slash treatment, and Appendix A C2.351# - treatment designa�ons Item 1 and Item 2, Sub-item 3.

Contractor Ques�on: When the FS does the reconstruc�on on NFSR 119, will the offeror on this contract have to treat the slash related to the road reconstruc�on?

Forest Service responded: Per C.6.71# - slash treatment, yes, if the slash meets the yarding of downed material diameter requirements.

Contractor Ques�on: Will skidding will be allowed on NFSR 119?

Forest Service responded: Yes, by prior writen agreement, the contractor will be allowed to skid on NFSR 119. The contractor shall reach an agreement with the Forest Service prior to skidding opera�ons on permanent roads. The agreement shall include restora�on of the loca�ons that skidding was allowed on NFSR 119.

Contractor Ques�on: Will individual Aspen be used to determine spacing criteria for conifers?

Forest Service responded: Aspen will not be used to determine cu�ng/spacing requirements for Item 1 and Item 2 as defined under C2.351 - treatment designa�ons. Aspen will be used to determine cu�ng requirements for Aspen enhancement areas as defined under C2.351 Item 3.

Contractor Ques�on: Can a temporary road be built around rocky sec�ons on NFSR 119?

Forest Service responded: Prior to construc�on, temporary roads may be built by agreement with the forest service to meet opera�onal needs.

Contractor Ques�on: Are fire lines required to be built around landing piles?

Forest Service responded: Fireline construc�on is not included under C6.7# - slash treatment. It is not required for this proposed contract.

Contractor Ques�on: What is the slash height requirement for incidental material?

Forest Service responded: As defined under C6.7# - slash treatment, incidental material slash concentra�ons shall be le� within 18 inches of the ground and not in piles.

Contractor Ques�on: Will the Forest Service require slash take back on skid trails?

Forest Service responded: Erosion control measures on skid trails will be applied as needed. In accordance with B6.65 - skid trails, by agreement contractor may use other comparable erosion control measures such as backblading skid trails, in lieu of cross ditching. Slash take back in lieu of these standard erosion control measures may be agreed to by the Forest Service on a case-by-case basis.

Contractor Ques�on: If awarded, will FS require slash pull back on op�onal item 4, pruning all units from residual trees?

Forest Service responded: Forest service reviewed Op�onal item 4 item 1.

Contractor Ques�on: How will landings and skid trails be agreed to?

Forest Service responded: Per B6.422 - main skid trails and landings, will be agreed to prior to construc�on with the primary method being paint and associated sketch map.

Contractor Ques�on: Will NFSR 119 be closed to the public during opera�ons?

Forest Service responded: The Forest Service may or may not close NFSR 119, please bid accordingly.

Contractor shall meet B6.33 Safety requirements for roads open to public travel.

Contractor Ques�on: To meet virtual boundary requirements, why is Avenza not being used?

Forest Service responded: Per C2.30# - treatment unit boundaries, Avenza does not meet the contact allowable tolerances as specified.