Tongass Timber Sale Support Activities IDIQ

This is a pre-solicitation notice.

Description

The United States Forest Service, Region 10, Tongass National Forest has a competitive requirement for an Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ), Multiple Award Task Order Contract for work to provide timber sale preparation services. These services include but are not limited to timber sale boundary marking and timber cruising, primarily variable-radius and sample tree methods. This work will occur across the southern half of the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska, particularly on the Ketchikan, Craig, Thorne Bay, Wrangell, and Petersburg Ranger Districts.

The Tongass National Forest is the nation's largest temperate rainforest, where the climate and topographic conditions offer considerable challenges to accomplishing work of this sort. Work will be conducted in remote locations, often accessible only by float plane, boat, and 4x4 vehicles. This solicitation will result in multiple award task order contracts entered into in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 16.504. The Government anticipates awarding 3 or more IDIQ contracts as a result of the solicitation.

This IDIQ contract is expected to last through the 2020 field season (April-September).

A Request for Proposal (RFP) is expected to be issued on or about January 30th, 2016.
Quotes will be due 30 days after release of the solicitation unless otherwise stated when the solicitation is posted.

This will be a total small business set-aside. Work associated with this MATOC IDIQ contract will fall primarily under NAICS 115310.

Location: Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska

Potential contractors MUST be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) (see Internet site: http://www.sam.gov/).

Primary Point of Contact:
Ron Smith
Contract Specialist
Alaska Region 10
Tongass National Forest
907-228-6244
Email: rpsmith@fs.fed.us