4 UTVs (Amended)

The National Forest Service of North Carolina is soliciting proposals for four Utility Task Vehicles (UTVs) to replace existing off-highway vehicles used for trail maintenance and prescribed fire activities across varied terrain. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service requires vehicles with specific configurations including 5-passenger and 6-passenger 4x4 gas UTVs, each equipped with 999cc or greater gasoline motors, certified Roll Over Protection Structure (ROPS), hydraulic disc brakes, and payload capacities between 1500-1600 pounds. Each vehicle must include mandatory accessories such as hard roofs, windshields, winches, metal skid plates, heavy-duty bumpers, and Fox-equivalent shock absorbers, while meeting ANSI/OPEI and ROHVA safety standards. The government will award the contract using a lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) evaluation methodology to the responsible offeror whose proposal conforms to all technical requirements. Vendors must submit their electronic proposals to Thomas Wolterman at thomas.wolterman@usda.gov by September 29, 2025, at 3:00 PM EST, and must maintain active System for Award Management (SAM) registration.

This procurement is conducted under full and open competition with no set-aside designations, allowing all qualified vendors to participate. The solicitation does not identify any incumbent contractors or current service providers for these vehicles. While specific contract values are not disclosed in the opportunity notice, the procurement involves exactly four UTVs with delivery requested as soon as possible following contract award. The vehicles will be delivered to two locations in North Carolina: one UTV to the National Forest in Asheville and three UTVs to the Tusquitee Ranger District in Murphy. Vendors are required to accept trade-ins for each quoted item and must provide estimated delivery timeframes in their proposals, with the government seeking rapid deployment of these vehicles to support forest management operations.