Central Oregon Restoration Project CORP 2. 0

This solicitation and any resultant Blanket Purchase Agreements are a service project with Forest Restoration activities as its focus.  Included activities for example, Pre-commercial Thinning Hand Treatment, Handpiling, Grapple Piling, Mastication, Subsoiling, Tree Planting and some subsets of these services.  These services will be performed on the Ochoco, Crooked River National Grassland, Deschutes and Fremont-Winema National Forests in the state of Oregon.  The scope also covers Federal and Local agency lands within 120 miles of Forests’ boundaries which include but are not limited to, BLM, Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, and Wheeler Counties, Oregon.  Work may also be accomplished on private lands, but the BPA call will be issued and administered by a Government entity.  Up to 20 vendors will be chosen for each work activity.

The overall objectives of this project are:

 Improve and protect:

• The vitality and resiliency of forest and range ecosystems to threats from fire, insect, disease and invasive and noxious species, including vegetation removal to promote healthy forests and rangeland 
• Water resources including watershed health and productivity, water quantity and quality
• Habitat for wildlife and fish
• Air quality, including minimizing air quality impacts by removing excess fuels before the introduction of fire
  Reduce:

• Hazardous forest fuels on federal lands
• Fire hazards to private lands, at-risk communities and municipal water supplies; and other improvements
• Threat of catastrophic fire to Threatened and Endangered habitat
• Effects of insect and disease epidemics
• Prevalence of noxious and exotic plants and promote reestablishment of native species