2014 Black Hills Tree Spraying

Added: Mar 05, 2014 3:29 pm The Black Hills National Forest intends to issue a Request For Proposal (RFP) to award a single, firm fixed price contract with a base and two option years.

Contractor will provide any and all labor, equipment, supplies, services, permits, insurance, and licenses required to spray a minimum of 300 trees and a maximum of 4,300 trees to treat for mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) on the Black Hills National Forests. The trees that are to be sprayed are ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa).

Solicitation AG-67T0-S-14-0028, and related documents will be issued via FedBizOpps and available for downloading on or about March 20, 2014 at the website address http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. This solicitation is a small business set-aside under NAICS code 561730. The SBA size standard is $7.0 million. A Pre-Proposal visit date will be included in the solicitation.

Offerors submitting a Request For Proposal are required by the FAR to use the System for Acquisition Management (SAM) (www.sam.gov). SAM is a web-based system that centralizes and standardizes the collection, storage, and viewing of many of the FAR required representations and certifications previously found in Solicitations. With SAM, vendors now have the ability to enter and maintain their representation and certification information. Vendors will need to review and/or update the SAM record when changes are necessary; annually to maintain an active status.

DISCLAIMER: Specifications will be located on the FedBizOpps web page and the Government is not liable for information furnished by any other source. Amendments, if/when issued will be posted to the FedBizOpps website. This will normally be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the offerors responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation. Websites are occasionally inaccessible due to various reasons. The Government is not responsible for any lost internet connectivity or for an offerors inability to access the documents posted on the referenced web pages.