Seed Task Order 2022 Wild Horse Round-Up.pdf

Task Order - FY22 Devils Garden Wild Horse Gather Modoc National Forest

Section I Contract No. TBD Project Name:

2022 Wild Horse Round-Up

Requisition No. 1060422 Contractor:

Telephone:

DUNS/UEId No.

Issuing and Billing Office:

CSA#1, Redding Office 3644 Avtech Parkway Redding, CA 96002

Section II Item No.

Description Qty Method of

Measur ement

Unit

Unit Price

Amount

Base Items

001 Mobilization, Set Up & Take Down 1 CQ Lump Sum $________ $________

Daily Rate For A Complete Helicopter Drive-Trap Gather of up to 30 days.

30 AQ Daily

003 Unit Price Per Head upto 500 Horses 500 AQ Per Head $ $

Transportation cost per loaded mile to holding facilities – Semi Trucks

0 Est. Qty Loaded Mile

Stand-By Rate – Base Daily Operational Minus daily helicoptor rate for each daily cost.

5 AQ Daily

Total Base Items: $_________________ Optional Item

Days extension to accomplish gather of 500 head of horses 15 AQ Daily

007a

Daily Rate Cost for a Bait Trapping

Unit Price Per Head Bait Trapping

AQ

AQ

Daily

Per Head

Total All Items: $______________________

Section III

CONTRACTOR: (NAME AND SIGNATURE)

CONTRACTOR DUNS/UEID#:

Email:

***** Include your pricing with your solicitation response.

Section IV

1. DESCRIPTION OF WORK:

This project is for the capture and removal of up to approximately 500 wild horses from in and around the Devils Garden Wild Horse Territory, Devil’s Garden Ranger District, Modoc National Forest per year.

The Contractor shall furnish all labor, supplies and equipment necessary to accomplish the required work. The work consists of the capture of wild horses from the gather area, the care, feed, and transportation of the animals to a designated holding and sorting corral within 10 hours of capture at the approved trap site(s). Holding and sorting corral shall be provided by the contractor as specified herein. Contractor shall age all captured horses, feed, and provide transportation of designated animals to Forest Service holding facilities. The work shall be accomplished in a safe and humane manner in accordance with the specifications and provisions.

The Forest Service is committed to the well-being, safety, and humane and responsible care of wild horses. The contractor shall ensure humane care and treatment for wild horses during all phases of the pre-gather, gather, and post-gather process. Contractor shall, to the maximum extent practicable, prevent or minimize fear, pain, distress, suffering, risk of injury, and death while carrying out activities authorized under applicable laws, regulation, policy and specifications of this contract.

The Contractor shall, develop a plan of operations to organize, accomplish, and direct all operations for the necessary work when provided the resource objectives for the project.

2. PROJECT LOCATIONS:

Location

The work consists of the capture and removal of wild horses located within the Devil’s Garden Plateau of the Modoc National Forest.

This contract is located in Modoc County, California near the town of Alturas, CA. on the Modoc National Forest.

Access

The gather areas are mostly in remote areas with rough terrain. Public, tribal, or private access roads damaged by the Contractor shall be restored, at the Contractor's expense, to the same condition they were in at the commencement of work. Vehicles shall be limited to existing designated routes. Staging areas and facilities shall be placed on designated lands.

Project Work Area

See attached map which illustrates the project area.

Trap Sites and temporary holding/sorting corral Potential trap sites and temporary holding/sorting corral locations have been identified and surveyed by the Modoc National Forest Heritage Program Manager. The sites are indicated on an attached map which illustrates the project area. Future areas might be added to map.

3. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The period of performance of this project is September 1, 2022 to April 31, 2023.

Vendor shall provide a schedule as part of their technical approach.

4. SPECIFIC WORK REQUIREMENTS

This work consists of the care, feed, and transportation of the animals to a designated preparation facility within or near the Project Work Area. Captured animals shall be transported to the Forest temporary holding/sorting corral located near the territory (approximately 10 miles). The Contractor shall furnish all labor, supplies and equipment necessary to accomplish the required work, which shall include preparation of the on Forest gather /sorting corral that shall hold up to two hundred horses per day. The work shall be accomplished in a safe and humane manner and shall be in accordance with the following specifications and provisions.

The priority gathering sequence is anticipated to be as follows:

1) National Forest System lands from the Emigrant Springs and Pine Springs Allotments area east to the Laure Dam Road. To initial trap area to be exact location to be determined between COR and Contractor.

2) From Initial on site gather location to short term holding/sorting facility.

3) Transport of Captured Animals

Transport of captured animals includes stock trailer transfer from the temporary trap site(s) to the temporary holding/sorting corral and Forest Service Corrals

Specific Tasks

These gathers shall be conducted with the use of helicopter and/or horseback drive trapping, roping and bait trapping. Roping shall not be included as an extra cost for the gather. Roping shall be included in the calculation capture. Contractor shall be responsible for:

1. Trap lay out and set up with Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) notification to insure area has proper clearances.

2. Transportation of gathered animals to specified holding facility.

3. Security and feeding of animals held for 10 hours or more in the traps or holding facilities. Contractor shall provide good quality hay at the rate of not less than two pounds of hay per 100 pounds of estimated body weight per day. An animal that is held at a temporary holding facility after 5:00 p.m. and on through the night, is defined as a horse feed day. An animal that is held for only a portion of a day and is shipped or released does not constitute a feed day.

4. Support to State Brand Inspectors in handling, inspection, and/or loading of individual animals as instructed by the COR.

The Forest Service will be responsible for:

1. On-call veterinarian services.

2. Appropriate equipment for disposal of carcasses if buried in accordance with section titled Euthanasia or

Death.

Task Order Pay Items

Contract payment will be determined as follows

Line Item 001 – Mobilization, Operational Set Up and Take Down

A contract quantity paid as a lump sum which includes operational set up and take down, assembled drive traps, and assembled temporary holding corral for gather and sorting. Mobilization includes travel time to and from the project work area by the Contractor’s workforce; ferry time for helicopter and associated ground support. Operational set up and take down includes assembling gather/sorting corral, drive traps prior to initiation of gather, take down of drive traps, pre-gather helicopter flight time to locate horses within the project work area, and pre-work meeting with CO and/or COR as needed.

Line Item 002 - Daily Rate for a Complete Gather Approximately 500 Horses

An actual quantity daily rate during helicopter drive-trap operations. Rate includes stock trailer transport from trap sites to temporary holding/sorting corral, aging mature horses, care, feeding and watering of captured animals, security of corral and support to brand inspection(s):

1. Base daily operational cost shall include: financial compensation to cover the contractor's daily expenses plus a reasonable profit. Daily expenses shall include total contractor costs pertaining to the gather for a day including salaries, insurance, equipment, maintenance, etc., including the hourly helicopter cost minimum of 4 hours of flight time a day.

2. Complete gather daily rate shall apply regardless of the number of animals that are gathered that day. The contractor shall only be paid the actual number of days he works regardless of the number of days on the task order and the number of animals gathered.

3. Hourly rate cost if 4 hours of operations for the day is not completed.

Line Item 003 Unit Price Per Head

The contractor will be paid for the actual number of animals captured within the task order specifications. Animals captured Include:

1. Captured in the trap with all gates closed.

2. Animals herded to the trap, but not captured at the direction of the COR/PI.

3. Animals released back to the public lands at the direction of the COR/PI.

4. Animals killed or destroyed without any fault or negligence on the part of the Contractor or its employees. The contractor shall not be entitled to payment for capturing any animals which are lost, killed or destroyed during capture due to the fault or negligence on the part of the Contractor or its employees.

a. The contractor shall not be entitled to payment of recapture of animals previously released during that same gather operation and have been marked for identification purposes as being unsuitable for removal.

The contractor may be compensated for the capture of animals in excess of the 500 specified if it is determined by the Contracting Officer to be in the Government’s best interest and agreed to by both parties in a contract modification.

Line Item 004 – Transportation costs per loaded mile to all facilities.

All horse will remain at Forest Service Carrols Double Devil

Line Item 005 – Stand-By Daily Rate

A quantity daily rate for standby which includes support to base operations while on stand-by due to some unforeseen circumstance such as inclement weather or court ordered temporary restraining order which is of no fault of the contractor. Rate of base operational includes cost to feed and water any horses that have been gathered. The Stand-by rate does not include helicopter operational costs.

1) Stand-By Daily Rate if operation is required to stand-by as a result of some unforeseen circumstance.

2) If the contractor stands down for a day or a few days due to circumstances that were of no fault of the contractor), the Stand-by Daily Rate shall apply. Since the helicopter will be grounded, compensation shall be for base operational cost only.

3) It is at the discretion of the COR in consultation with the Contracting Officer and Contractor to authorize a Stand-by daily rate for the upcoming gather day.

4) If the gather is suspended due to weather after the operation has been underway, the Stand-by daily rate will apply.

5) The contractor's helicopter cost will be included to cover the contractor's complete cost for the availiblity of helicopter prior to suspension of operations that day.

6) The following will constitute a Stand-by daily rate day:

a. Weather suspension for the entire day.

b. Moving the trap(s) to another location.

7) Non-work day on Sundays or holiday shall not constitute a Stand-by work day.

8) Maintenance and/or repairs to the helicopter shall not constitute an automatic Stand-by daily rate day. The contractor shall continue working the operation. Moving traps, setting up bait stations, transporting and caring for horses etc.

Line Item 006 – Optional Extension to gather 500 head of horses.

The Government may exersice the Optional Line Item 006 through modification should the Government determine that additional time on this task, not to exceed 15 calendar days, is in the governments best intererest to meet the gather goal of upto 1000 head of horses. This line item will be actual quanitity of days speent in excess of the base 30 calendar days not to exceed 15 calendar days.

Line Item 007-Daily Rate Cost for a Bait Trapping

1) The work consists of the capture, handling, care, feeding, daily rate and transportation of wild horses to temporary holding facility. The method of capture will be with the use-of bait and/or water traps in accordance with the standards identified in the Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program (CA WP) for Wild horse and Burro Gathers.

2) The contractor shall furnish all labor, supplies, transportation, and equipment necessary to accomplish the individual task order requirements. The work shall be accomplished in a safe and humane manner and be in accordance with theꞏ provisions of 43 CFR Part 4 700, the CA WP,

3) Forest service reserves the right to place game cameras or other cameras in the capture area to document animal activity and response, capture techniques and procedures, and humane care during trapping. No private/non-Forest Service camera will be placed within the capture areas.

4) Hazing/Driving of wild horses and burros for the purpose of trapping the animals will not be allowed for the purposes of fulfilling individual task orders. Roping will be utilized only as directed by the COR.

5) Darting of wild horses and burros for trapping purposes will not be allowed.

6) No barbed wire material shall be used in the construction of any traps or used in new construction to exclude horses or burros from water sources

7) The contractor shall assure that captured mares and their dependent foals shall not be separated for more than 4 hours unless the COR/PI determines it necessary.

8) The contractor shall provide a saddle horse on site that is available to assist with the pairing up of mares with their dependent foals and other tasks as needed.

9) Contractor will report any injuries/deaths that resulted from trapping operations as well as pre-existing conditions to the COR/PI within 12 hours of capture and will be included in daily gather activity report to the COR.

10) All trap and temporary holding facility area locations must be approved by the COR and/or the Project Inspector (PI) prior to construction and/or operation. The contractor may also be required to change or move trap locations as determined by the COR/PI. All traps and temporary holding facilities not located on public land must have prior written approval of the landowner or other management agency

11) Facility design to include traps, wings, alleys, handling pens, finger gates, shall be constructed, maintained and operated to handle the wild horses and burros in a safe and humane manner in accordance with the standards identified in the Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program (CA WP) for Wild Horse Gathers

12) Any Bait Trapping activity can be simultaneously with helicopter drive trapping, prior to drive trapping and after helicopter drive trapping.

5. FAR 52.237-1 SITE VISIT (APR 1984)

Offerors or quoters are urged and expected to inspect the site where services are to be performed and to satisfy themselves regarding all general and local conditions that may affect the cost of contract performance, to the extent that the information is reasonably obtainable. In no event shall failure to inspect the site constitute grounds for a claim after contract award.

6. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED PROPERTY:

The government may provide VHF/FM portable 2-way radios, if needed. The Contractor shall be responsible for the security of all Government Furnished Property (GFP).

7. LIST OF ATTACHMENTS

The following attachments are made a part of this solicitation and any resultant contract.

Title Pages

1. Project Map 1

2. Wage Determination 21

3. Fire Plan 6

Section V

8. EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Relevant, Price will be considered for the “Best Value” evaluation.

1. Price Evaluation for Task Order Award:

In accordance with sections L and M of the solicitation, pricing submitted on this task order will be evaluated and used for price reasonableness of both the ID/IQ awards and award of this task order.

Award Determination:

The Government anticipates awarding a single task order to the responsible vendor(s) whose quote conforming to the solicitation is most advantageous to the Government.