FY25 RMRS New Mexico FIA Plots

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station is seeking field-based vegetation sampling services for Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plots across New Mexico. The contract encompasses comprehensive forest inventory work including locating, monumenting, and photographing plots while conducting detailed inventories of trees, shrubs, forbs, and graminoids, as well as collecting tree cores across both forested and non-forested conditions. Contractors must provide qualified crew members with specific educational backgrounds and field experience in timber surveys, operating with a minimum one-person crew size, though two-person crews are recommended in areas with high wildlife activity including bears, mountain lions, and wolves. The government will evaluate offers based on price, technical capability, past performance, and experience, with particular emphasis on key personnel qualifications and prior timber survey experience. Quotes must be submitted electronically to anthony.salas@usda.gov by June 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM Mountain Time.

This opportunity is designated as a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 115310 with a size standard of $11.5 million, and no incumbent contractors are identified in the solicitation materials. The contract covers a base year performance period from August 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, with field work specifically scheduled from March 1 to November 15 annually. The scope includes 224 total plot locations across New Mexico: 27 wilderness plots, 8 wilderness plots with soils, 138 non-wilderness plots, and 51 non-wilderness plots with soils, distributed across 26 counties throughout the state. Work will be performed across various land ownerships including national forests, Bureau of Land Management lands, state lands, private properties, and Native American territories. Contractors must adhere to strict data confidentiality requirements and utilize government-specified hardware and software systems for data collection and processing, with all work performed according to detailed RMRS FIA P2 Field Procedures.