CTR063933_Contractor_Proposal_Response.pdf

THE STATE OF ARIZONA

GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT

5000 W. CAREFREE HIGHWAY

Phoenix, AZ 85086-5000

(602) 942-3000 •WWW.AZGFD.GOV

BPM004848 Required Forms updated 01-14-2020

SOLICITATION BPM004848

REQUIRED FORMS

The documents contained herein must be completed and submitted with your offer in Arizona Procurement Portal. Other documents located in the Attachments tab of Arizona Procurement Portal are incorporated herein by reference. Attachments I – V can also be provided on a separate sheet of paper referencing the Attachment Number.

Contents Offeror’s Check List 2

Offer and Acceptance Form 3

Designation of Confidential, Trade Secret & Proprietary Information 4

R2-7-103. Confidential Information 5

Boycott of Israel Disclosure 6

Attachment I, Subcontractors 8

Attachment II, References 9

Attachment III, Pricing Proposal 10

Attachment IV, Experience/Expertise/Reliability 11

Attachment V, Narrative on the Approach to the Scope of Work 12

Morgan Typewritten Text See proposal that has been uploaded to website

Morgan

Attachments II, III, IV, and V are in technical proposal that is uploaded to website.

OFFEROR’S CHECK LIST (for Offeror’s use only.) This is the only document does not have to be returned.

Arizona Game and Fish Department Purchasing Office

5000 West Carefree Highway Phoenix, Arizona 85086

Offeror’s Check List

DOCUMENT SUBMITTED*

If you have been notified that an amendment has been issued, you must re-open your offer in APP, make any required modifications, if any, and re-submit your offer. If you do not do this you have not submitted an offer in the Arizona Procurement Portal and your offer will be considered as non-responsive.

☐ YES, ☐ NO,

☐ NA

Offer and Acceptance (Complete the top half of page 3, sign and upload into your offer in Arizona Procurement Portal.)

☐ YES, ☐ NO,

“Designation of Confidential, Trade Secret & Proprietary Information” form (Page 4). Information considered to be confidential, trade secret or proprietary should be attached as a separate document checked “confidential” in the Attachments tab of your offer Arizona Procurement Portal. Confidential documents must include a statement as to why the information is confidential.

☐ YES, ☐ NO,

Boycott of Israel Disclosure ☐ YES ☐ NO Pricing of $1.00 has been entered in Arizona Procurement Portal’s “items” tab. ☐ YES ☐ NO

Attachment I-Subcontractors ☐ YES ☐ NO

Attachment II- References ☐ YES ☐ NO

Attachment III- Pricing Proposal ☐ YES ☐ NO

Attachment IV- Experience/Expertise/Reliability ☐ YES ☐ NO

Attachment V- Narrative on the approach to the Scope of Work ☐ YES ☐ NO

* Ensure Items above have been completed, scanned (preferably as one pdf file) and uploaded into the “Attachments” tab of your offer (quote) in Arizona Procurement Portal.

☐ YES ☐ NO

OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE

BPM004848

Arizona Game and Fish Department Purchasing Office

Offer and Acceptance Form OFFER

TO THE STATE OF ARIZONA:

The Undersigned hereby offers and agrees to furnish the material, service or construction in compliance with all terms, conditions, specifications and amendments in the Solicitation and any written exceptions in the offer.

Company Name Signature of Person Authorized to Sign Offer

Address Printed Name

City State Zip Title

Phone:

Fax:

Contact Email Address

By signature in the Offer section above, the Offeror certifies:

1. The Offeror shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment in violation of Federal Executive Order 11246, State

Executive Order 2009-9 or A.R.S. §§ 41−1461 through 1465.

2. The Offeror has not given, offered to give, nor intends to give at any time hereafter any economic opportunity, future employment, gift, loan, gratuity, special discount, trip, favor, or service to a public servant in connection with the submitted offer. Failure to provide a valid signature affirming the stipulations required by this clause shall result in rejection of the offer. Signing the offer with a false statement shall void the offer, any resulting contract and may be subject to legal remedies provided by law.

3. The Offeror certifies compliance with A.R.S.§41-3532 when offering electronics or information technology products, services or maintenance.

4. The Offeror is not debarred from, or otherwise prohibited from participating in any contract awarded by any federal, state or local government.

ACCEPTANCE OF OFFER

The Offer is hereby accepted.

The Contractor is now bound to sell the materials or services listed by the attached contract and based upon the solicitation, including all terms, conditions, specifications, amendments, etc., and the Contractor’s Offer as accepted by the State.

This Contract shall henceforth be referred to as Contract No. ____________________________________________________.

The effective date of the Contract is ____________________________________________________.

The Contractor is cautioned not to commence any billable work or to provide any material or service under this contract until Contractor receives purchase order, contact release document or Procurement’s written notice to proceed.

State of Arizona Awarded this day of

Kristen Micurescu, CPPB, as Branch Chief and not personally

Lohman Helicopter, LLC.

Morgan Lohman

President

208-818-4658

406 Burrell Ave. Hanger N23

Lewiston, Idaho. 83501 morgan@lohmanhelicopter.com

Designation of Confidential, Trade Secret & Proprietary Information

Arizona Game and Fish Department Purchasing Office

Designation of Confidential, Trade Secret & Proprietary Information All materials submitted as part of a response to a solicitation are subject to Arizona public records law a will be disclosed if there is an appropriate public records request at the time of or after the award of the contract.

Recognizing there may be materials included in a solicitation response that is proprietary or a trade secret, a process is set out in A.A.C. R2-7-103 that will allow qualifying materials to be designated as confidential and excluded from disclosure. For purposes of this process the definition of “trade secret” will be the same as that set out in A.A.C. R2-7-101(50).

This form must be completed and returned with the response to the solicitation and any supporting information to assist the State in making its determination as to whether any of the materials submitted as part of the solicitation response should be designated confidential because the material is proprietary or a trade secret and therefore not subject to disclosure.

All offerors must select one of the following:

My response does not contain proprietary or trade secret information. I understand that my entire response will become public record in accordance with A.A.C. R2-7-C317.

My response does contain trade secret information because it contains information that:

1. Is a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique or process, AND

2. Derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; AND

3. Is the subject of efforts by myself or my organization that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.

Please note that failure to attach an explanation may result in a determination that the information does not meet the statutory trade secret definition. All information that does not meet the definition of trade secret as defined by A.A.C. R2-7-101(50) will become public in accordance with A.A.C. R2-7-C317. The State reserves the right to make its own determination of Proposer’s trade secret materials through a written determination in accordance with A.A.C. R2-7-103.

If the State agrees with the proposer’s designation of trade secret or confidentiality and the determination is challenged, the undersigned hereby agrees to cooperate and support the defense of the determination with all interested parties, including legal counsel or other necessary assistance.

By submitting this response, proposer agrees that the entire offer, including confidential, trade secret and proprietary information may be shared with an evaluation committee and technical advisors during the evaluation process.

Proposer agrees to indemnify and hold the State, its agents and employees, harmless from any claims or causes of action relating to the State’s withholding of information based upon reliance on the above representations, including the payment of all costs and attorney fees incurred by the State in defending such an action.

Company Name Signature of Person Authorized to Sign

City State Zip Title

Lohman Helicopter, LLC.

406 Burrell Ave. Hanger N23

Lewiston, Idaho. 83501 President

Morgan Lohman

Designation of Confidential, Trade Secret & Proprietary Information

Arizona Game and Fish Department Purchasing Office

R2-7-103. Confidential Information

A. If a person wants to assert that a person's offer, specification, or protest contains a trade secret or other proprietary information, a person shall include with the submission a statement supporting this assertion. A person shall clearly designate any trade secret and other proprietary information, using the term "confidential". Contract terms and conditions, pricing, and information generally available to the public are not considered confidential information under this Section.

B. Until a final determination is made under subsection (C), an agency chief procurement officer shall not disclose information designated as confidential under subsection (A) except to those individuals deemed by an agency chief procurement officer to have a legitimate state interest.

C. Upon receipt of a submission, an agency chief procurement officer shall make one of the following written determinations:

1. The designated information is confidential and the agency chief procurement officer shall not disclose the information except to those individuals deemed by the agency chief procurement officer to have a legitimate state interest;

2. The designated information is not confidential; or

3. Additional information is required before a final confidentiality determination can be made.

D. If an agency chief procurement officer determines that information submitted is not confidential, a person who made the submission shall be notified in writing. The notice shall include a time period for requesting a review of the determination by the state procurement administrator.

E. An agency chief procurement officer may release information designated as confidential under subsection (A) if:

1. A request for review is not received by the state procurement administrator within the time period specified in the notice; or

2. The state procurement administrator, after review, makes a written determination that the designated information is not confidential

Participation in Boycott of Israel

Arizona Game and Fish Department Purchasing Office

BPM004848 Required Forms updated 1-14-2020 SPO For No. 205

Boycott of Israel Disclosure

Please note that if any of the following apply to this Solicitation, Contract, or Contractor, then the Offeror shall select the “Exempt Solicitation, Contract, or Contractor” option below:

• The Solicitation or Contract has an estimated value of less than $100,000;

• Contractor is a sole proprietorship;

• Contractor has fewer than ten (10) employees; OR

• Contractor is a non-profit organization.

Pursuant to A.R.S. §35-393.01, public entities are prohibited from entering into contracts “unless the contract includes a written certification that the company is not currently engaged in, and agrees for the duration of the contract to not engage in, a boycott of goods or services from Israel.”

Under A.R.S. §35-393:

1. "Boycott" means engaging in a refusal to deal, terminating business activities or performing other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with entities doing business in Israel or in territories controlled by Israel, if those actions are taken either:

(a) Based in part on the fact that the entity does business in Israel or in territories controlled by Israel.

(b) In a manner that discriminates on the basis of nationality, national origin or religion and that is not based on a valid business reason.

2. "Company" means an organization, association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company or other entity or business association, including a wholly owned subsidiary, majority-owned subsidiary, parent company or affiliate, that engages in for-profit activity and that has ten or more full-time employees.

5. "Public entity" means this State, a political subdivision of this State or an agency, board, commission or department of this State or a political subdivision of this State.

The certification below does not include boycotts prohibited by 50 United States Code Section 4842 or a regulation issued pursuant to that section. See A.R.S. §35-393.03.

In compliance with A.R.S. §§35-393 et seq., all offerors must select one of the following:

The Company submitting this Offer does not participate in, and agrees not to participate in during the term of the contract, a boycott of Israel in accordance with A.R.S. §§35-393 et seq. I understand that my entire response will become public record in accordance with A.A.C. R2-7-C317.

The Company submitting this Offer does participate in a boycott of Israel as described in A.R.S. §§35-

393 et seq.

Participation in Boycott of Israel

Purchasing Office

BPM004848 Required Forms updated 1-14-2020 SPO For No. 205

Exempt Solicitation, Contract, or Contractor.

Indicate which of the following statements applies to this Contract:

Solicitation or Contract has an estimated value of less than $100,000;

Contractor is a sole proprietorship;

Contractor has fewer than ten (10) employees; and/or Contractor is a non-profit organization.

Company Name Signature of Person Authorized to Sign

City State Zip Title

406 Burrell Ave. Hanger N23

Lewiston, Idaho. 83501

Morgan Lohman, President

President

ATTACHMENT I

Purchasing Office

Attachment I, Subcontractors

SUBCONTRACTORS

Bidder shall identify all proposed subcontractors/material suppliers that will be utilized to perform any portion of the Specifications. Additional Subcontractor(s) not listed below or on a supplemental page must receive written approval from AGFD before utilization.

Name of Subcontractor

City, State

Number of years in business

Type of business (LLC, Corporation, Sole Proprietor, etc.)

Service to be provided

Name of Subcontractor

City, State

Number of years in business

Type of business (LLC, Corporation, Sole Proprietor, etc.)

Service to be provided

NONE

NONE

ATTACHMENT II

Purchasing Office

Attachment II, References

REFERENCES

Three (3) professional references who have received services similar to the Specifications of this Solicitation shall be listed below. References from AGFD are not to be included. References from the western United States are preferred. The contact person shall be someone who has responsibility for the operation of the material and/or service and shall be aware that they are being used as a reference.

Reference 1

1) Company: Contact Name:

Phone: Email:

Description of services provided:

Reference 2

2) Company: Contact Name:

Phone: Email:

Description of services provided:

Reference 3

3) Company: Contact Name:

Phone: Email:

Description of services provided:

Morgan Typewritten Text Colorado Parks and Wildlife Jamin Grigg, SW Region Senior Wildlife Biologist

Morgan Typewritten Text 970-375-6745

Morgan Typewritten Text Summer 2022 Elk Capture Goat and Sheep Survey

Morgan Typewritten Text jamin.grigg@state.co.us

Morgan Typewritten Text Ute Tribe - Utah Jamie Arrive

Morgan Typewritten Text Buffalo Counts, Herding and Paintball Marking

Morgan Typewritten Text 435-722-5511

Morgan Typewritten Text jamiea@utetribe.com

Morgan Typewritten Text Idaho Fish and Game

Morgan Typewritten Text Tpoby Boudreau, Deer and Elk Coordinator

Morgan Typewritten Text 208-221-4528

Morgan Typewritten Text Elk and antelope surveys

Morgan toby.boudreau@idfg.gov

ATTACHMENT III

Purchasing Office

Attachment III, Pricing Proposal

PRICING PROPOSAL

1. Enter $1.00 in the “Unit Price” field in the items tab in APP. Your offer cannot be awarded if you fail to do this.

2. Provide cost per animal captured or if applicable, cost per species (Species listed on Page 3, Paragraph 2.1, of the BPM004848 Requirements Document). Specify the minimum number of animals captured to achieve this rate.

3. Explain whether costs will vary depending upon the helicopter model used and if so, provide model and associated costs.

4. Provide the cost per hour of capture time should captures fall below the minimum required for this rate.

5. Provide cost per animal for biological sample collection (if not included in the cost per animal or per hour rates).

6. Provide cost per hour for ferry flights.

7. Provide per-diem costs per person per day (assumes a crew of 3-4 people). If this is not your typical crew size, please specify the number of crew.

8. Provide fuel truck costs per mile.

9. Specify any additional pricing applicable to achieve the Scope of Work.

ATTACHMENT IV

Purchasing Office

5000 West Carefree Highway Phoenix, Arizona 85086

BPM004848 Required Forms updated 01-14-2020

Attachment IV, Experience/Expertise/Reliability

EXPERIENCE/EXPERTISE/RELIABILITY

Experience, expertise and reliability is considered in the evaluation process. The Offeror is advised to submit any information that documents successful and reliable experience in past performances, especially those performances related to the requirements of this Solicitation.

Offeror should provide a narrative response that addresses, but is not limited to, the following key points:

1. Provide background information on your company, such as type of business (corporation, LLC, sole proprietor, small business.), length of time in business, number of full time employees.

2. Provide the experience level of your pilot(s) and the total number of flight hours.

3. Describe the experience level of your muggers and net gunners. (Years of experience, time with your company, etc.)

4. Describe your experience and qualifications for administering sedatives to the animals (AGFD will provide the sedatives and have a veterinarian on site.)

5. Provide the make, model and year of the helicopter(s) you plan to utilize for this service.

6. Describe any additional information you wish to provide about your company.

ATTACHMENT V

Purchasing Office

Attachment V, Narrative on the Approach to the Scope of Work

NARRATIVE ON THE APPROACH TO THE SCOPE OF WORK

The Offeror should present a proposed method of satisfying the requirements in the Scope of Work as specified herein. The language of the narrative should be straightforward and limited to facts, solutions to problems, and plans of proposed action. The Offeror should use technical language only when describing a technical process.

Specifically, provide a detailed response to the Scope of Work, include the following:

1. Thoroughly describe your process for capturing, restraining and transporting (slinging) the elk to the staging area. Note: Net gunning is preferred but AGFD is open to chemical capture if that is determined to be a more efficient approach, or a combination of both.

2. Describe the animal restraint equipment you are proposing.

3. Describe your procedure and product(s) for disinfecting all equipment between big game capture operations.

4. Describe your ability/process to obtain additional fuel if necessary.

5. Provide an example of a recent capture process your company performed.

6. Provide any additional information you wish to provide.

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HELICOPTER WILDLIFE CAPTURE SERVICES FOR AZ GAME AND FISH

09-21-2022

DONNA BAILLOUX, SR PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST

ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT

MOBILE: 480-617-5182

Morgan Lohman, President

Lewiston, Idaho. 83537.

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HELICOPTER WILDLIFE CAPTURE SERVICES PROPOSAL

FOR ARIZONA GAME AND FISH

Prepared for:

ARIZONA GAME AND FISH

Prepared By:

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Cover Page

Lohman Helicopter is honored to have been invited by AGFD to participate in this exciting opportunity, we are very passionate about wildlife management programs, and we thank you!

Lohman Helicopter, LLC, offers utility helicopter services specializing in aerial firefighting, animal capture and survey (wildlife management), overhead powerline construction, precision lift/external load operations, including Human External Cargo, forestry services, and charter.

Established in 2007, Lohman Helicopter is certified by the FAA for FAR Part 133 loads A, B, and C, human external cargo (HEC), FAR 135 Air Carrier, and FAR 137 flight operations. Lohman Helicopter is a certified Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB). We provide services throughout the United States, including Alaska, Canada, and Mexico.

Lohman Helicopter's primary focus has always been on safety first, with customer service close behind. On every mission, our experienced and knowledgeable pilots demonstrate their dedication to the highest industry standards. Their core competencies include precision flying and heavy lift operations in all environments. Our power utility services require advanced technical flying skills, and those same skills translate into high proficiency and effectiveness levels in aerial firefighting.

Lohman Helicopter’s primary focus is customer service combined with the highest standard of safety. With every mission, our experience and knowledgeable pilots demonstrate their dedication to the highest industry standards. Core competencies include precision flying firefighting and heavy lift operations in all environments. Our power utility services require advanced technical long line and mountain skills that also helps us compete at a high level in aerial firefighting, low level flying, animal survey and capture.

The Lohman Helicopter management team embraces safety in every facet of our operations. LH is now IS-BAO, Stage II certified having passed IS-BAO, Stage 2 audit, and certification in November of 2019. Lohman Helicopter has an actual, practiced Safety Management System with competent leadership and a positive safety culture to ensure that we deliver the very best aerial service to our customers and continue our tradition of safe operations Lohman Helicopter appreciates the opportunity to submit our proposal with our Bell 407 Helicopters.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions on our proposal or offered aircraft capabilities.

Lohman Helicopter, LLC

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Experience/Expertise/Reliability

Approach to scope of work

Primary and alternate points of contact

Scheduling

Seasonal Availability

Operation Hubs

Ancillary Charges

Fuel Trucks

Certifications and Operations

Service Trucks

Sling Equipment

Pilot Experience

Muggers and Gunners

Professional Letters of Recommendation

Letter of Recommendation – Idaho Fish and Game

Letter of recommendation – Uintah / Ute Tribe, Roosevelt Utah

Work Plan – Technical Proposal

Aircraft Qualifications / Specifications

Closing Statement

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Experience/Expertise/Reliability Incorporated in 2007, Lohman Helicopter is small family business headquartered in Lewiston, Idaho. We specialize in aerial fire suppression, powerline construction, animals survey, capture and inventory work.

Our pilots, aircraft and fuel trucks are certified by the FAA under Part 135 and by the USDA where applicable. OAS Pilot, Fuel Truck and Aircraft Qualification cards are included with this bid.

Our company and cadre of pilots have extensive experience flying in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon we are comfortable with mountain flying, we have experience flying up to 14,000’ conducting sheep and goat surveys in the Rocky Mountains. Surveys we’ve flown have been for buffalo, big horn sheep, antelope, elk, goats and much more.

Cow Elk Capture for blood and collaring

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Narrative on the Approach to the scope of work

We are accustomed to both netting and chemical (dart) methods for capture. Once captured, animals are blindfolded, hobbled if needed. This practice would also apply if we were to sling the animals in nets.

The mugger and gunner will be in the aircraft, once the animal is “netted” or hit with a dart, we will land, gunner and mugger will work together to properly restrain the animal. Helicopter crew will have radio communication throughout the exercise.

Disinfection of equipment is used with medical grade cleaning supplies, usually water alcohol solution.

Dirty rags are disposed of.

Additional fuel is never a concern, fuels trucks are nearby, and we always maintain 10-hour supply of fuel for each day.

Recent capture project was in Colorado, this took place in August 2022. Previous page shows photos.

We used darts, not nets. This was especially challenging; terrain temperatures elevations and trees made this very challenging, however, we were safe and successful.

Primary and alternate points of contact

1. Morgan Lohman, Director of Operations, 208-818-4658

2. Christine Lohman, CEO, 208-816-2448

3. Office Number: 208-743-5411

Scheduling Expected response times should not exceed 48 hours from time work order/mission is placed. We shall be readily available for all reasonable hours and days of availability. Obviously the better the lead time the better, good communication and planning will insure we will always be able to start a project when AGFD wants us to. Reasons being pilots, drivers, and or/aircraft/trucks my not be readily available. While we may have a helicopter in the area, the pilot/driver lives out of state, thus we need to airline them to Arizona.

Seasonal Availability With the size of fleet have and cadre of pilots, we anticipate being able to offer year-round coverage to AFGD. The only time of year where we may be limited would be summertime, during firefighting season.

But, with proper coordination and communication, we can work though that timeframe.

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Operation Hubs Pheonix area shall be primary hub/base of operations for this contract, for year 1.

Ancillary Charges

• Each call out/work order will be subject to $2,500.00 mobilization fee

• Annual price increase shall be a minimum of 3% or CPI, whichever is greater.

Fuel Trucks We have several fuel trucks and trailers, tank capacities range in size. All trucks are 4x4 and all are USFS approved “carded”. We use these trucks to support our aircraft on federal fires.

Certifications and Operations Lohman Helicopter is certified by the FAA for CFR Part 133, 137 and 135 flight operations. Upon request we can provide our operating certificates.

Service Trucks Depending on the project, terrain, fuel requirements, etc.… We have fleet of Ford F350 trucks and various fuel trucks we can dispatch with aircraft on these projects.

Sling Equipment We have an expansive inventory of sling equipment, nets, long lines, remote hooks and more. We also have specialized lines for human cargo (flying men) to remote areas where a helicopter would not be able to land.

Base of Operations shall be Phoenix Flagstaff 150

Phoenix 50 Tucson 120 Kingman 200 Yuma 185 Pinetop 190

** Please note these are estimates only

Est. Drive Miles Est. Ferry Time

0.5

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Pilot Experience All pilots offered under this contract will be FAA 135 certified and USDA/OAS certified. See attached USFS/USDA pilot qualification card attached.

All pilots have extensive experience in mountain flying in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho and Montana, New Mexico, and Utah.

All pilots have more than 4,000 flight hours as PIC and more than 2,000 hours of survey and/or mountainous terrain.

Please note that even though our company employs several pilots that exceed the requirements set forth in this RFP. If the bid review committee would like additional information on Lohman Helicopter pilots, we are happy to provide that.

Single Skid Landing (STEP) Landing @ 9,500’ on Elk Trail, 30-degree slope

With 30-degree slopes, STEP landings were our only option to load/unload biologists close to the animals.

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Muggers and Gunners We employ two full time employees that have been with us for 5+ years, both men have significant experience with mugging, gunning, netting and darts. If we need additional help we contract muggers and gunners, these men work for several companies, are highly experienced and well trained. We will not show up with a novice capture crew.

Professional Letters of Recommendation

Letter of Recommendation – Idaho Fish and Game

IDFG - Letter of Recommendation.pdf

Letter of recommendation – Uintah / Ute Tribe, Roosevelt Utah

UTE- Lohman - Letter of Recommendation.p

Work Plan – Technical Proposal

Lohman Helicopter would offer fully qualified USDOI / USDA qualified pilots and aircraft. Once an aircraft was ordered for missions by the Wildlife Program Manager, Lohman’s Director of Operations would dispatch crew (pilot and support truck) to the requested reporting location. Our fuel truck drivers are also mechanics, this really helps ensuring the aircraft is safe, maintained daily and always available for flights. The helicopter will have 1st Aid Kit, Survival Kit and is always fitted for the type of weather we are flying, for example with winter flights, we install snow baffles and bear paws.

Before flights commence, Lohman and AGFD will review area maps, discuss flight planning, flight mission and area hazards. The pilot will work closely on daily basis with the biologists and/or program manager on flight planning, safety management, learning survey routes and more

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Aircraft Qualifications / Specifications

We will be offering a Bell 407 Helicopter, please see photo/specs below:

• We have (3) Bell 407s, oldest is a 2001 and the newest is 2013 model

• Part 135 and USFS Certified

• Long Range Fuel Tank

• Custom very large bubble windows

• High performance engine, ideal for mountainous terrain

• VHF Radios

FM Radios

• Aircraft is equipped with ELT and AFF and GPS

• Satellite phone

• External cargo long line services and cargo net

• Approved for winter flight operations

• Highly agile, proven capture platform

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Closing Statement

Safety and customer services have always been the building blocks of our organization. We have read and have a full understanding of the RFP and work scope.

We know that our team can provide you with well-maintained, safe equipment and a professional, well-trained crew to conduct your survey flights and capture missions.

Our team knows this type of work. We will show early for the mission, well-prepared and ready to execute the days missions.

We really hope we are successfully in this bid; our team would love to be your long-term contractor/partner in your wildlife management program.

Respectfully, Morgan Lohman

Item Rate UOM Helicopter 1,700.00$ Hourly Per-Diem 225.00$ Each night, per man Fuel Truck Mileage 3.75$ Per Mile Service Truck Mileage 2.25$ Per Mile Capture Crew 1,600.00$ Per Day - Entire Crew Airport landing fee 50.00$ each occurance Overnight hangar fee 200.00$ each occurance Veterianarian 1,200.00$ Per Day Veterinarian mobilization costs $1,000.00 Each occurance (airfare, rental car, etc) round trip

Note: Not all line items apply per job, only equipment needed will be used.

Rates subject to annual increase of 4% or CPI, which ever is greater.

AGFD has sole discrection on veterinarian, we realize AGFD will have one available, we simply wanted to provide an option.