Remove and Dispose-- 12 miles (approximate) of Barbed-Wire Fence & Posts at the SnoBird Unit.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 8 office in Portland, Oregon has a requirement for a contractor to supply all labor, equipment, materials, and supplies necessary to Remove and Dispose 12 miles (approximate) of Barbed-Wire Fence and Posts at the SnoBird Unit in Merced National Wildlife Refuge, Merced, California (Merced County).

The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible vendor whose quote conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. All evaluation factors other than price (e.g., experience and past performance), when combined, are approximately equal to price.

Solicitation no. 801819Q184 to include all attachments will be made available within 5 days after the issued date of this Pre-Solicitation Notice and only be available electronically through a link to the National Business Center Interior Electronic Acquisition System-Electronic Commerce at www.fedbizopps.gov or www.nbc.gov . The solicitation response date (which has not currently been determined) will be at 3:00 PM Pacific Daylight Savings Time (PDT). No further notice will be posted on FedBizOpps.

For assistance in downloading information from the National Business Center, please contact their helpdesk at (703) 390-6707. Interested contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration www.ccr.gov (CCR) and complete Online Representations and Certifications (ORCA) www.bpn.gov . Period of performance is 60 calendar days from issuance of award for completion of this service. The USFWS technical point for this project is Rich Albers, Assistant Refuge Manager at (209) 826-3508.

NOTE: The associated North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 115210, Product or Service code (PSC) is P999, and small business size standard is $6.5 million.