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 that service, snag creation, stocking surveys and stand exams.  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. 

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
   
  Resulting Awards:

• Multiple award Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs).  Up to 20 vendors will be awarded in each category
• Individual orders called BPA calls will be issued against any resultant Blanket Purchase Agreement parent contracts
• BPA calls will be ordered by warranted contracting personnel from any National Forest in R6 up to their warrant authority
• This solicitation is issued as a total Small Business Set-Aside
• In accordance with the Ordering Procedures herein, BPA calls placed against the parent BPAs may be competed as a Small Business Set-Aside, HubZone, 8a, Women-Owned Small Business, Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business, Veteran Owned Small Business or Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business Set-Asides, depending on organizational goals.