RFI PFO, ID Herbicide Application BPA

The Bureau of Land Management's Pocatello Field Office is conducting market research through this Request for Information (RFI) to establish a Blanket Purchase Agreement with one or more contractors for on-the-ground herbicide application services to control noxious and invasive weeds across BLM-administered lands within the Pocatello Field Office boundaries. Interested vendors must be registered and active in the System for Award Management (SAM), legally authorized to provide the proposed services, and capable of specialized herbicide application work across varying terrain conditions classified from easy to difficult terrain with and without motorized access. The RFI is classified under NAICS code 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and requires contractors to provide all necessary labor, equipment, materials, supervision, and EPA-registered herbicides, with specific qualifications including an on-site English-fluent contractor representative and Idaho-licensed professional applicators in Agricultural Pesticide or Regulatory Pests categories. Interested parties should note this is a market research tool only, not a formal solicitation, and responses are voluntary with no financial responsibility assumed by the government; respondents must submit information by March 11, 2026, using the provided Microsoft Forms link, and all submissions become government property.

No set-aside designation applies to this procurement. The proposed contract structure is a five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement effective from May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2031, with individual task calls not to exceed $250,000 each and payment on a per-acre basis at unit prices to be established during the formal solicitation. The example Blackrock Canyon call order illustrates the scale of work, encompassing approximately 238 acres across two terrain classifications (65 acres of moderate terrain and 173 acres of difficult terrain) with a performance period of approximately 49 calendar days from May 1 through June 18, 2026. The government will furnish all herbicides, surfactants, and dyes, while contractors must provide application equipment including approved backpack sprayers, hose/reel lines, and horse/mule transportation for non-motorized access areas, with work restricted to daylight hours six days per week excluding Sundays and federal holidays. The approved herbicide formulations list includes 89 EPA-registered products across seven active ingredients from manufacturers such as Corteva Agriscience, Helena Agri-Enterprises, and BASF Corporation, with contractors required to maintain detailed applicator logs, GPS data, tracklogs, and photographic documentation of treated species.