Aerial Spraying of Aquatic Weeds, Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway located in Alabama and Mississippi for the Army Corps of Engineers Mobile, District

Services to provide Aerial Treatment (Helicopter) of Aquatic Weeds. Services to include but not be limited to supplying all required chemicals, plant, operators, trucks and all other necessary equipment and supplies to fulfill the requirements Services will consist of using a helicopter to spray herbicide onto floating plants, primarily water hyacinth (Eichhoria crassipes), but also cuban-club rush (oxycaryum cubense), alligator weed (alternanthera philoxeroides), common salvinia (salvinia minima), American lotus (nelumbo lutea), and possibly some other aquatic weeds.

The Contractor may be required to perform like tasks on Wildlife Mitigation Lands as required above in the following counties: Mississippi - Sharkey, Issaquena, Warren, Neshoba, Lauderdale, Jackson and Winston County. Alabama - Baldwin, Mobile and Lowndes County.

The requirement will be satisfied through the use of a USACE, CESAM awarded IDIQ type professional services SATOC under NAICS Code 115310, size standard $7.5 Million. The contract period will be one (1) base year plus two (2) one year option periods. This solicitation is a set aside100% for Small Business under. The solicitation will only be issued as a direct download at the following website: https://www.fbo.gov ON or AROUND July 14, 2016.

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