Four Forest Stand Exam IDIQ (Colville, Malheur, Umatilla, and Wallowa-Whitman NFs)

The Contractor shall furnish all labor, supervision, equipment, transportation, (except those designated as Government-furnished), and incidentals for Stand Exams for each national forest within the scope of this contract.

The objective of the project is to gather vegetation information from plots established in vegetative stands across the three national forest system lands using the U.S. Forest Service Common Stand Exam Protocols, an electronic portable data recorder to collect the data or paper forms (if specified), and GPS unit to navigate to pre-located plots. This project includes lands administered by the Colville,  Malheur (1.7 million acres), Umatilla (1.4 million acres), and Wallowa-Whitman National (2.3 million acres) Forests.

The exams are grouped into geographic areas we now call "Locations" in the Field Sampled Vegetation database (FSVeg) and are related to sub-watersheds. Descriptions of the Locations are defined in the detailed unit information maps. Information collected through this contract will be used to support various natural resource programs on each forest encompassing silviculture, fuels, timber, wildlife, and hydrology in land management planning efforts or for other programmatic efforts. Results or outcomes from data collected will aid in the development of prescriptions (i.e. silviculture, fuels, etc.), performing forest modeling, updates to vegetation, populating/updating vegetation databases (i.e. FSVeg database, etc.), stocking amounts, certification of forest stands (e.g. reforestation and thinning) etc.

It is anticipated that this project will be set-aside 100% for small businesses.

The solicitation and associated documents will be posted on or around March 25, 2015.