c.Oregon_wage determination.pdf

This solicitation is seeking mechanical and hand thinning treatment services to accomplish fuels reduction or forest health improvement work within the Wallowa Whitman and Umatilla National Forests. The services requested include mechanical thinning, mastication, slash busting, grapple piling of slash and debris, plantation thinning, pullback, pre- and non-commercial thinning, roadside brushing, pruning, hand piling, grapple piling, burning of slash piles, and other associated activities. The purpose is to alter ground and ladder fuels through understory tree densities and debris removal. The location is on lands administered by the Wallowa Whitman National Forest, Umatilla National Forest and other National Forests within 250 miles. The resultant contract will have a term of up to 5 years, with call orders awarded initially and competed in the future unless an exemption applies. Pricing will be according to the Schedule of Items. All call orders will include maps, DUIS, and other documentation specific to the work required. The agency is the USDA Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region.