Notice of Intent to Award a BPA Call Order against The Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) for Texas Butte Cultural Survey at the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Baker City, OR.
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- 1240BG26Q0043
- Agency
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Region 6 - Pacific Northwest Region
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- Total Small Business
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541620 Environmental Consulting Services
- Place of performance
- Glide, Oregon 97443, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The USDA Forest Service Procurement & Property Services issued a notice of intent on June 2, 2026 to award a competitive BPA Call Order against the Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) for cultural survey services at Texas Butte, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Baker City, Oregon; this procurement is restricted to the approximately 128 companies already approved as eligible contractors under the LMIR BPA and is set aside for Total Small Business.
The scope encompasses intensive heritage resource survey across fourteen survey blocks totaling 3,509 acres in the base contract and an optional 709 acres in additional blocks, with work to be completed by May 31, 2028 and fieldwork to begin June 15, 2026. The contractor must conduct cultural resource inventory using transect spacing no greater than 15 meters, evaluate unevaluated sites for National Register of Historic Places eligibility, and deliver a comprehensive survey report meeting Oregon State Historic Preservation Office standards. Required personnel include a Principal Investigator holding a graduate degree in anthropology with archaeology emphasis and one year of professional Northwest archaeology experience, field supervisors with bachelor's degrees and specified archaeological field and supervisory experience, and field crew with bachelor's degrees or six months of archaeological field experience. Payment is structured at 50 percent upon fieldwork completion, 25 percent upon draft report acceptance, and 25 percent upon final report acceptance. The original quote deadline was June 11, 2026 at noon PDT, with the procurement becoming inactive June 26, 2026. Inquiries should be directed to Jennifer Olson at jennifer.olson2@usda.gov or 458-212-6090, or the LMIR Team at sm.fs.lmirbpa@usda.gov.
Notice text
The USDA Forest Service (FS), Procurement & Property Services (PPS) is issuing this special notice as a means of complying with the USDA’s policy in the Contracting Desk Book, SUBPART 413.3—SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION METHODS, 413.303 Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs). The USDA FS intends on awarding a competitive BPA Call Order against the LMIR BPA to Secure services that requires regeneration stocking exam field data collection on selected planted and naturally-regenerating fire burned units on the North Zone (Diamond Lake and North Umpqua Ranger Districts) of the Umpqua National Forest in compliance with its terms, specifications and provisions.
The Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) is a National BPA that consists of a large variety of work including Professional Services, Natural Resources Restoration, Engineering, Project Management, NEPA, Communications, and more. The BPA can be utilized on all Forests and Grasslands and is available for all federal agencies to utilize.
This is not a solicitation. This synopsis notification of intent to award a BPA Call order does not constitute a request for proposals or submission of any information in response to this notification.
This procurement is restricted to those approved companies eligible for call orders under the Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) for USFS. There are currently 100 businesses that will receive this solicitation. The Call Order shall be issued via email to those companies listed on the BPA. Any changes to the Call Order RFQ shall also be emailed to those companies listed on the BPA. Point of Contact is sm.fs.lmirbpa@usda.gov.
This requirement will be competitively awarded as a BPA Call Order against the aforementioned multiple award schedule BPAs continuously solicited on the Government Point of Entry (GPE) at: SAM.gov. The government will not provide feedback or evaluations to companies regarding their submissions in response to this notice, however, the LMIR BPA is an open continuous BPA that allows us to accept responses for the life of the BPA. Search “Contracts” on sam.gov using solicitation number “12363N23Q4023”. The LMIR BPA has a continuous pre-solicitation sharing so that contractors may submit a proposal to join the BPA at any point in time by reaching out to the LMIR Team at SM.FS.lmirbpa@usda.gov.
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