This requirement is for a service-wide Heavy Equip

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service is soliciting proposals for a service-wide Heavy Equipment Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to supply eight types of heavy equipment across 27 horsepower categories to support conservation land management, fire suppression, and natural disaster response activities. The solicitation seeks to establish a mandatory-use IDIQ contract that will serve 569 National Wildlife Refuges, 37 Wetland Management Districts, 21 Wildlife Management Areas, and 70 National Fish Hatcheries throughout the United States. Equipment categories include backhoes, compact track loaders, skid steer loaders, and agricultural tractors with specific horsepower and operating capacity specifications. The original proposal due date of March 12, 2024, was extended to March 26, 2024, through three amendments, and potential offerors were required to submit questions at least seven days prior to the final proposal deadline. While specific evaluation criteria were not detailed in the provided documents, the contract structure indicates that pricing proposals would be evaluated for a base period from April 15, 2024, to April 15, 2029, with four one-year option periods, and partial awards were permitted such that contractors could be selected for specific equipment categories rather than the entire contract scope.

This solicitation carries no set-aside designations and identifies no incumbent contractors in the available documents. The contract includes a mandatory subcontracting plan requiring the contractor to establish goals for subcontracting to small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, women-owned small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, and HUBZone small businesses. No specific award value or budget range was disclosed in the solicitation materials. The contract will utilize a pricing table approach with annual price updates allowed for the base year and four option years, and trades of equipment will be permitted when deemed in the government's best interest. Performance will be executed across multiple geographic locations nationwide, with equipment distributed to Fish and Wildlife Service facilities throughout all regions of the United States to support federal conservation and natural resource management missions.