Bidder Listing S.15888.pdf

This Bidder Listing document from the Oregon Department of Forestry presents the Notice of Intent to Award for Invitation to Bid S-62900-00015888 concerning botanical field surveys for the 54 North Fuels Reduction and Huckleberry Restoration Project located on the North Fork John Day Ranger District in the Umatilla National Forest. The procurement requires comprehensive vascular plant surveys across five survey units totaling approximately 1,891 acres, with deliverables including completed field survey forms, Element Occurrence reports with GPS coordinates and sketch maps, voucher specimens, digital photographs, and final reports due by September 30, 2026. Upland survey units must be conducted from April through June 2026, while forested units require surveys from mid-May through July 2026. The bid opening occurred on March 6, 2026, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time, with the Notice of Intent to Award scheduled for approximately March 16, 2026, and contract execution anticipated by March 20, 2026. The contract term runs from February 1, 2026, through September 30, 2026.

Four bidders submitted responses to this solicitation: Sundance Consultants, LLC; Turnstone Environmental Consultants, Inc.; Nature's Capital, LLC; and Geo Botanix, LLC. Compensation is structured on a per-acre rate for survey work across the five units with separate line items for draft and final reports, with payment contingent upon inspection and acceptance of completed work. No incumbent contractor is listed for this opportunity. Key personnel must include a botanist with an undergraduate degree in botany, ecology, environmental science, or equivalent education and a minimum of three field seasons of hands-on taxonomic classification and field identification experience with vascular plants in the inland Pacific Northwest. Evaluation prioritizes the lowest responsible and responsive bid that meets minimum qualifications, and bidders must maintain commercial general liability coverage of $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 annual aggregate, as well as professional liability insurance of $1,000,000 per claim and $2,000,000 annual aggregate.