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Dusy Basin Material Packing Statement of Work

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park (SEKI) has several trails maintenance and construction projects scheduled in Lower Dusy Basin in 2022. In support of these projects, camp gear, food, tools, and other material will be packed in by mule from south lake trailhead in Inyo N.F. over Bishop Pass to the

California Conservation Corps camp in Lower Dusy Basin. The duration of packing needs under this contract will be based on snow levels and access to the backcountry camp locations, weekly crew needs, and project scheduling: it is anticipated that between 8 to 10 mule loads will be needed for weekly resupply from when snow levels allow access from approximately late June to late July through

September 25, 2022.

In a typical year Dusy Basin/Bishop Pass will open to livestock travel in Late July and close to livestock in early October, however this year’s winter has been lighter providing opportunity to access Bishop Pass earlier than normal. All pack trips will be scheduled during times between snowmelt clearing the trail and snowfall closing the trail.

The contractor is to supply all animals, tools, tack, pack equipment, veterinary and farrier care, vehicle transport, stock packing personnel (packers and assistants), livestock feed, and all other items needed for performing all the work of this contract.

• Any contractors traveling through or camping in Kings Canyon National Park will follow the

SEKI traveling and camping regulations. Specifically, SEKI group size limits, camping restrictions, and grazing regulations will apply to contractors carrying out this work. These regulations may be found at http://www.nps.gov/seki/planyourvisit/stockuse.htm

• Pack trips may be contracted to deliver loads to any location in the contract area that is legally accessible to pack trains. Delivery locations will typically be within 400 yards of the maintained trails to established camps, although deliveries may be contracted for any point along the trail.

• Since there are not different locations to which loads will be delivered, and since overnight pack train travel will not be required, the cost will reflect One-Day round trips. One-Day round trips will be from South Lake Trailhead to Lower Dusy Basin camp.

• If overnight stays are required, the vendor must be able to supply their own means of bedding, food, and shelter for packers staying overnight in backcountry locations.

• Additional Days, alternate locations, or trips can be negotiated between the vendor and the COR dependent upon need and will follow the Per-packer Per-day/Per-animal Per-day cost agreed upon the granting of the contract and vendors availability or capability to provide additional services.

• Vendor will be responsible for the for the dropping off a weekly grocery list after resupply to a local Bishop CA grocery store of the governments choosing and weekly pickup of groceries before the next weeks resupply.

• The vendor will be responsible for filling a weekly tool and supply need lists from a government owned supply trailer that will be kept in a secure location on the vendors property. Security of the trailer will be the responsibility of the vendor.

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• The vendor will provide sanitary and adequate storage (freezer/refrigerators/coolers/ice) of perishable goods for the interim time between grocery pickup and camp resupply.

• The resupplies will begin as soon as Bishop pass is accessible by stock, amount of packer and pack animal days expected will be a minimum of 16 packer days and 160 pack animal days and the maximum of 26 packer days and 260 pack animal days.

• Vendor will include in bid a grocery run/town resupply run cost per week that will cover vehicle, fuel, and personnel to drop off grocery lists and pickup grocery orders and mail each week.

• Vendors are required to submit their bids on a per-packer-day, and per-pack animal-day basis as a flat rate for each line item. The line item cost of the packer includes the packers animal. Such as:

1 packer (plus animal) per day Vendor bid cost

1 pack animal per day Vendor bid cost

1 town resupply trip for grocery/mail pickup

(estimated 8hrs)

Vendor bid cost

1 town trip drop off of crew food order

(estimated 3hrs)

Vendor bid cost

In example, one packer delivering three loads to the Two-Day trip area will be paid as two packer-days and six animal-days. Two packers delivering 8 loads to the One-Day trip area will be paid as two packer-days and 8 animal-days.

• Pack trains will be up to 5 pack animals per packer on a given trip. For 1-5 loads to be delivered on a given trip, one packer may be billed; for 6-10 loads, two packers may be billed; for 11-15 loads, three packers may be billed.

• The NPS will schedule pack trips at least one week in advance. At the time of scheduling, the

NPS will specify the wilderness delivery location, the number of pack strings, and the number of loads (plus or minus one load). The final number of loads will be determined by 4pm the afternoon before the pack trip is to leave.

• The NPS will not be able to provide any staging areas in the front country. Loads will generally consist of food, tools and equipment, fuel, and mail. The vendor will be responsible for picking up mail in Bishop CA before each pack trip, and vendor will be responsible for sanitary cold storage of the perishable food, sanitary storage of dry goods, mail, tools, equipment, and fuel until it reaches its final wilderness destination.

• No single item to be packed will be longer than 5’, with the possible exceptions of shovels and telescoping polesaws, or tripod legs. No single item will be heavier than 90 lbs (e.g. a sack of

Portland cement).

• Grazing may or may not be available for pack stock, depending on park regulations, meadow conditions, and other grazing that has occurred in a given year. Upon scheduling, and on a trip-

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by-trip basis, the Contracting Officer’s Representative will inform the contractor whether stock may graze or not. If grazing is not available, extra packing will be contracted to pack feed at a rate of 15 pounds of feed per animal per night.

• One “load” will be up to 150 pounds of material packed to the destination, with or without a load on the return leg of the round trip. Two loads will be between 151 and 300 pounds, and so

on. (Example: 250 pounds of material packed to Dusy Lake and 100 pounds packed back on the return trip would be billed as two packer-days and four animal-days.)

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