NPL York PCT/Buck/Pile Call Order Soliciation

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region is issuing a Notice of Intent for a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call to procure forestry services including hand cutting of trees, treatment of activity-created slash by bucking, and grapple/hand piling operations. The work will be performed under an existing BPA (#1204N020A00XX) established under FAR 13.303, with contractors required to furnish all equipment, labor, supervision, transportation, materials, tools, supplies, and incidentals necessary to complete the specified forestry management activities. The project targets both recently commercially harvested stands and natural/untreated stands, with specific requirements that units listed as "Grapple Only" shall only involve piling of previously bucked slash. The solicitation follows NAICS Code 115310 for Support Activities for Forestry and Product Service Code F014 for Natural Resources/Conservation Tree Thinning. Offers are due by August 14, 2025, though the attached government file indicates an earlier deadline of August 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM PT.

This procurement opportunity is designated as a Total Small Business set-aside, restricting participation to qualified small business entities. The project encompasses a substantial scope of work covering 1,228 mandatory acres and an additional 588 optional acres, totaling up to 1,816 acres of forestry operations in the Bend, Oregon area. No specific award values or budget ranges are disclosed in the pre-solicitation notice, nor are any incumbent contractors identified. Interested vendors can request the full solicitation from the contracting officer Andrea Pollock at andrea.pollock@usda.gov, and the solicitation includes provisions for an Interested Vendors List that will be accessible to all participating vendors. The Notice ID for this procurement is 1240BE25Q0063, and the work will be conducted in accordance with detailed specifications to be provided in the full solicitation document.