Swasey fuels reduction hand cut

The Bureau of Land Management Redding Field Office seeks hand thinning, hand piling, and pile covering of hazardous fuels across 295 acres in the Swasey Recreation Area, Shasta County, California, with proposals due August 21, 2026. This procurement is a total small business set-aside.

Place of performance is on BLM-administered public lands within the Swasey Recreation Area near Redding. The NAICS code is 115310, Support Activities for Forestry, with a $34 million size standard. Work is split across two units: Unit 1 comprises 142 acres from October 1, 2026 through October 1, 2027; Unit 2 comprises 153 acres from October 1, 2027 through October 1, 2028. Tasks include hand severing of trees and brush up to 8 inches diameter breast height using power saws, hand piling of cut material to 10 inches diameter and greater than 2 feet in length, pruning of leave trees to 8 feet height, and covering piles with black polyethylene plastic or forestry paper to 80 percent coverage. Leave tree species prioritization targets Blue Oak, Black Oak, Ponderosa Pine, Coffeeberry, and Interior Live Oak, with 30-foot stem spacing targets. Work must comply with wildlife resource protection during nesting seasons (January 1 through August 31 for raptors; March 1 through August 15 for non-raptors) and archeological resource protection. Evaluation criteria are technical capability (narrative limited to 5 pages), relevant experience (minimum two completed jobs in the past five years with owner contact information), and total price. A pre-bid site visit is scheduled for August 3, 2026 at 10:00 A.M. Technical questions are due by August 6, 2026, with answers provided by August 14, 2026. Offerors must be actively registered in SAM.gov as of the closing date and time.