Statement_of_Work.pdf

STATEMENT OF WORK

FOR

FIRE BREAK AND FORESTRY SERVICES

PART 1 GENERAL

1.1 Project Scheduling: The contractor will coordinate work schedule with the Base Forester (or Range

Management personnel or Grounds Maintenance QA is some instances). The services to be performed will be as needed throughout each fiscal year and as funding is available through each fiscal year. Access to the Grand Bay Weapons Range will have to be coordinated with the Base

Forester and Range Control. The contractor will need to keep and continually monitor a Range radio

(supplied by Base Forester) while working on the range to coordinate access and communicate with

Range control. Work conducted on the range will have to work around the military schedule thus providing very limited access on most weekdays. Access to the range will typically be on weekends, holidays, designated no-fly days, 2 weeks once or twice per year for EOD cleanup, and occasionally on Friday or Friday afternoon. Contractor personnel will need to accomplish annual Unexploded

Ordinance (UXO) Training prior to initially accessing range property and annually thereafter, as directed by Grand Bay Weapons Range Management. Otherwise, short notice weekday access is very limited, but this is subject to change from day to day.

1.2 Project Scope: Work consists of furnishing all labor, maintenance equipment/tools, materials/supplies and protective equipment required to perform the following actions on timberlands located on main base and Grand Bay Range.

a. FIREBREAK MAINTENANCE: Maintenance of existing firebreaks and creating new fire breaks using a rubber tire tractor with a root rake (tractor should be sufficient in size similar to a John Deere 544K Loader with mud grip forestry tires for example). This work will mostly involve using the root rake teeth to rake limbs, litter, roots and debris off the upper surface of the existing firebreaks and periodically moving the debris to the sides of the firebreaks leaving mostly bare soil on the surface of the fire break. In addition, designated dead snags will need to be pushed over away from the break when they are close to the break. Also, small trees and bushes that are encroaching into the fire break from the sides will need to be pushed out away from the fire break. Limbs or trees fallen across the break will also have to be pushed out of the breaks using the root rake while minimizing soil disturbance. Occasionally, new firebreaks (8-10 feet wide usually) will need to be created with the root rake through existing woodland which will require uprooting saw palmetto, small trees and bushes. A bucket will need to be used periodically to construct water bars as recommended by the Base Forester to control erosion where needed.

b. HARROW MAINTENANCE: Maintenance of existing firebreaks using a farm tractor (70 hp min.) and a harrow (7 ft. wide min.). This harrowing work will be done on firebreaks that have been maintained in recent years, but have since become covered in pine straw, grasses, leaves, and small sticks. The harrowing will be done on the surface enough to leave the surface with mostly bare soil sufficient to stop a creeping prescribed fire under calm weather conditions.

c. MOWING: Perform mowing (bush hogging) with farm tractor of middles between tree rows in pine plantations of natural pine volunteers and hardwood saplings, as well as mowing the brush on shoulders adjacent to woods roads and fire breaks where designated by the Base Forester.

d. ROAD MAINTENANCE: Using rubber tire tractor loader with a Bucket and/or root rake, perform road maintenance and/or minor road reconstruction activities on logging roads or woods roads that may have been slightly damaged or severely rutted due to timber harvesting operations, storm damage, or other activities performed under the direction of the Base Forester. Tractor should be sufficient in size similar to a John Deere 544K

Loader with mud grip forestry tires for example. This may involve clearing downed trees and storm debris out of the road, pushing brush back on each side of the road, as well spreading and smoothing out supplied rock or dirt. Dirt may be used to create water bars in woods roads as needed and recommended by Base Forester to prevent erosion.

e. EMERGENCY SERVICES: Short term response with rubber tired tractor loader and root rake to clean up downed trees and storm debris following storms, tornados and hurricanes usually to open up access in roads and other improved areas (tractor should be sufficient in size similar to a John Deere 544K Loader with mud grip forestry tires for example).

f. HAZARD TREE REMOVALS: Using a rubber tired tractor loader and a root rake or bucket push over trees that are leaning or hazardous and cut up with chainsaw and remove tree or push into adjacent woodlands (to be negotiated with CEO on a case by case basis).

g. ROOT RAKING/PILING: Perform site preparation activities involving piling debris with a root rake and rubber tire tractor loader (tractor should be sufficient in size similar to a

John Deere 544K Loader with mud grip forestry tires for example) into round piles or small windrows while minimizing the soil in piles. Also, root rake logging debris near old loading ramps (0.2-0.5) acre into several round piles away from standing trees where they can be safely burned at later date.

h. ROLLER DRUM CHOPPING: Perform roller drum chopping in either site preparation operations or beneath existing mature timber to chop down brush and small hardwoods. This involves pulling an 8 ft. wide roller drum chopper with a rubber tired skidder similar or like a Case 535B for example. Some roller drum chopping will be done under range management supervision such as for specified cutover areas in the Bemis

Field Drop Zone and on the Impact Area.

i. DOUBLE ROLLER DRUM CHOPPING: This involves conducting Roller Drum Chopping as described in “h.” twice on the same area.

j. MACHINE LONGLEAF PINE PLANTING: Using a farm tractor with a mechanical tree planter (such as a Whitfield for example) to plant containerized longleaf pines on site prepared areas (usually at 605 trees/acre approximately with trees supplied by Base

Forester).

k. HAND PINE PLANTING: Perform hand planting of containerized longleaf pine, or bare root slash pine or bare root loblolly pine (usually at 605 trees/acre approximately with trees supplied by Base Forester).

l. MACHINE LOB/SLASH PINE PLANTING: Perform machine planting with tractor and mechanical planter of bare root slash or loblolly pine seedlings on site prepared areas at approximately 605 trees/acre.

m. LOAD AND HAUL VEGETATIVE DEBRIS OFF THROUGH CONTRACTORS GATE: Perform loading of 16 cubic yard dump trucks with vegetative debris and hauling the debris off base to a suitable approved destination. This debris will be mainly tree trimmings, leaves, limbs, some trunks, and occasionally stumps. This price is based on using the contractor’s gate (Golf 7) at the north end of the runway off of Eismann Road when allowed and coordinated with security forces (depending on their available staffing).

n. LOAD AND HAUL VEGETATIVE DEBRIS OFF DAVIDSON ROAD GATE THROUGH MITCHELL

BLVD OR DAVIDSON ROAD GATE: Same as “m.”, but using different gate when coordinated with security forces.

o. BEDDING: On recently cutover areas that have been root raked, pulling a bedding plow with a rubber tired skidder (like a Case 535B, for example) to create beds for trees to later be planted upon.

p. DOUBLE BEDDING: Double bedding will involve repeating conducting what is described above in “o.” twice on the same area.

q. HAND PLANTING WIREGRASS: This will involve having tree planters hand plant containerized wiregrass plugs using a dibble or plug type dibble on site prepared or recently burned areas usually at 605 plugs per acre approximately.

r. MACHINE PLANTING WIREGRASS: Perform machine planting with tractor and mechanical planter of containerized wiregrass plugs on site prepared areas or recently burned areas at approximately 605 plugs/acre.

s. FILL DIRT: Deliver to areas on Moody AFB designated by the Base Forester or Range

Management dump truck loads of Fill Dirt.

t. CRUSH ASPHALT (RAP): Deliver to areas on Moody AFB designated by the Base Forester or Range Management dump truck loads of crushed asphalt.

u. FILL SAND: Deliver to areas on Moody AFB designated by the Base Forester or Range

Management dump truck loads of fill sand.

v. FILL TOP SOIL: Deliver to areas on Moody AFB designated by the Base Forester or Range

Management dump truck loads of fill top soil.

w. FILL CLAY RED: Deliver to areas on Moody AFB designated by the Base Forester or Range

Management dump truck loads of red clay.

x. EXCAVATOR: Perform digging work with excavator on Moody AFB to create or maintain pit or ditch, etc. as directed by Base Forester.

PART 2 – PROJECT DETAILS

1. All the above work will be accomplished in a timely manner, and in a quality that meets with

Air Force standards. An Environmental Management Element employee will monitor most work operations on a periodic basis and will report to the Element Chief, or his representative, the status and progress of the job being performed. In some cases, the Grounds Maintenance

QA (23 CES/CEOES) will supervise the work such as in m., f., and e. Range management personnel (23 OSS/OSOR) may supervise some work specific to range operations such as in sub paragraphs h., i., and x. as well as delivered materials listed in s., t., u., v., and w.

PART 3 – SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. The contractor and the Base Forester (or 23 OSS/OSOR or 23 CES/CEOES for exceptions where they supervise the work or materials delivered) shall jointly perform an inspection of the work site prior to work commencement. Exact location and specific duties shall be verified during this inspection.

2. After completion of each work operation, the Base Forester who will serve as the

Environmental Management Element representative, will inspect the contractor’s performance to assure all job duties were accomplished to his satisfaction (except for exceptions listed above where Grounds Maintenance QA (23 CES/CEOES) or Range Management (23 OSS/OSOR) supervise the work or materials delivered).