Natural Resource Professional Services

Added: Apr 26, 2010 1:00 pm Solicitation AG-91S8-S-10-0023 is to obtain professional and other services used in the support of the resource management of timber, natural resource, and land use activities of the Forest Service. There are two sections in this IDIQ solicitation that shall be awarded. The first section is the Professional Natural Resource Related Items and Activities and the second section is Forestry Resource Related Items and Activities. Multiple awards will be made for each section.



The work items associated with the Professional Natural Resource Related Items and Activities includes, but is not limited to, the following; doing surveys of current streams conditions, search for cultural sites inside proposed activity areas, surveying for threatened and endangered floral and fauna species using Forest Service protocols, conducting soil surveys and writing feasibility reports, recommending mandatory operational curtailments and/or restrictions to meet regulatory requirements, etc. Also included is the completion of planning documents consistent with National Environmental Policy Act.

The work items associated with the Forestry Resource Related Items and Activities includes, but is not limited to, the following; doing a pre-cruise and preparing a cruise plan, doing the cruise based upon the approved cruise plan, flagging unit boundaries, traversing with GPS with a print out to scale indicating shape and acres to set standards, marking trees with tracer paint and a marking guide supplied by the Forest Service, flagging locations on the ground for permanent and temporary roads, road survey and layout, completing cost estimates for road construction and reconstruction using Forest Service cost guides, locating landings, doing on-the-ground skyline profiles and analysis of logging system requirements, locating tailtrees, intermediate support trees as needed, etc.

The government intends to issue 5 year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quanity contracts with a maximun aggregate total for all contracts of $4.9 million as a result of this solicitation. Multiple awards are anticipated. The Government shall issue task orders to perform the individual projects as they become funded. The project area will be defined in the task order for the specific project. Project areas may be located anywhere throughout Region 5 of the Forest Service. The solicitation shall be posted at fedbizopps.gov on or about May 10, 2010.

The primary NASIC codes are 541620 and 115310