Seed Cone Collection IDIQ

Added: Jun 01, 2016 9:28 pm The USDA Forest Service, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, Springerville, Arizona, has a requirement to collect numerous conifer species for the Alpine, Black Mesa, Clifton, Lakeside and Springerville Ranger Districts issued under Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) format. The minimum guarantee for awarded contracts is at least one task order valued over $500. The contractor shall furnish all labor, equipment, transportation, supervision, supplies (except those designated as Government furnished), incidentals and perform all work necessary to collect cones, in compliance with terms, specifications, conditions and provisions in this solicitation. The purpose of this contract is for cone collection and/or cone sampling services for the Government. Amount of annual cone crops are unpredictable from one year to the next.

This procurement is 100% Small Business Set-Aside. The NAICS code 115310 applies to this procurement for which the Small Business size standard is $7.5 Million.

The Government anticipates awarding a Firm Fixed-Price contract under the Request for Quotation (RFQ) best value (tradeoff process) format using the evaluation factors in Section M.

The RFQ will be available (uploaded to www.fbo.gov) on or after June 16, 2016. Interested parties should submit an offer in accordance with the requirements of the solicitation.

Formal site visit date and location will be announced in the upcoming solicitation.

Responses to this solicitation may be sent by email in electronic format to the contracting officer (all submittal and deadline requirements shall be met): leenorton@fs.fed.us or before the closing date and time for the solicitation. Hardcopy submissions may be sent to the address in the solicitation.

Deadline for submission of offers shall be July 12, 2016, 4:00 p.m. local time (Arizona does not observe Daylight Savings Time).