VIPR I-BPA for Chipper for Region 3, 5, 6, 10

Maintenance Cycle 21-04 replaces Wage Determination No. 1995-0224 (Rev 51) with Wage Determination No. 1995-0224 (Rev. 52) for all solicitation templates. (boj)

EXHIBIT H

ALL REGION 6 VENDORS ARE REQUIRED TO SELF-STATUS THEIR RESOURCE(S) IN IROC. To access IROC, Vendors must have a NAP Account. Click on the following link to learn how to request a NAP Account and to self-status your resource(s):

https://sites.google.com/site/factvendorresources/

EXHIBIT I

REGION 6 MOU TRAINING PROVIDERS:

All persons working under this agreement requiring wildland fire training shall utilize an approved training provider to meet agreement requirements in Section D.3.1 ? TRAINING/EXPERIENCE

? Training can be obtained from Region 1 or Region 6 accepted MOU Training Providers. https://sites.google.com/site/factcontractoperations/

? If training has been taken from other entities or in other Regions where formal agreements are in place with the US Forest Service for that entity to train vendor owned resources those can be accepted after the certificates have been vetted through the PNWCG Training Committee.

Training taken by providers not listed on the Region 6 FACT website will cause the resource to become noncompliant during the pre-use inspection.

REGION 6 MOU RECORDS VERIFICATION PROVIDERS:

Records verification is required for all employees whose positions require additional training beyond RT-130. Employees that only require RT-130 are not required to have their records verified.

It is the Vendor?s responsibility to select/contact a Records Verification Provider and make arrangements for training records verification. Vendors must pay for the cost for this service. Cost will not be posted, therefore, you will need to make contact with the inspection provider to determine pricing.

? Region 6 MOU Records Verification Providers - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xppvhCKLwWSx9O1cJFVtqPWDfqAvRLVO/view

Employees records must be validated in accordance to PMS 310-1. Purpose is to evaluate wildland fire ICS position standards, qualification and currency requirements sufficient to accurately determine wildland fire personnel positions qualification. Employees who work on both the IFCA and VIPR agreements may have their qualifications above FFT2 verified by ODF, USFS will accept ODF verification. FFT2 records must be verified by a MOU Provider.

Incident Identification Qualification Cards shall be signed by the MOU Provider before any employee is eligible to accept any wildland fire assignment. All personnel must have a valid incident card when accepting an assignment. Without this validation for employees, it could result in release of equipment/resource at the incident and therefore travel to and from the incident would not be paid. Forest Service Contract Operations will no longer Validate/Approve any employees records.

Upon receipt of a written request from an employee or previous employee, vendor will provide copies of all documentation of training and experience to the employee within 10 days.

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To view the Region 6 Dispatch Boundary Map, visit the Region 6 Fire Procurement website

located at: https://sites.google.com/site/factvendorresources/.

The Department of Agriculture (USDA), US Forest Service (USFS), Pacific Northwest (Region 6), Pacific Southwest (Region 5), and Southwest (Region 3), is soliciting quotes (RFQ) for Chippers for use during Local, Regional, and nationwide fire suppression and all-hazard incidents. The Contractor is responsible for all equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, lodging, trained/certified personnel, and supervision and management of those personnel, necessary to meet or exceed the Agreement specifications. Optional use by Interagency Cooperators (subject to that agency?s payment and administrative terms). The resources may be used in the protection of lands, to include but not be limited to, severity, fire suppression and all-hazard incidents.

RATES: Proposed rates should be based on up to a 16hr. Daily Shift and include all within B.2 -- PRICING AND ESTIMATED QUANTITY.

DISPATCH CENTER: Agreements will be competitively awarded within the Regional dispatch centers. Agreement intent and Government guidance is for Quoters to select the available dispatch center closest to their resource location in order to reasonably meet the Government?s (Host Agency?s) date and time needed for emergency incident support, as well as offer best value to the Government for travel costs for each potential dispatch/BPA Call. Since wildland fire support and locations are unknown at time of award, selection of a host dispatch center/zone outside of where the resources reside may result in loss of opportunity and failure to meet Government?s critical and timely need at time of incident. Map link: https://www.nifc.gov/nicc/

INSPECTIONS: Pre-award inspections will not be conducted. Please see technical quote submittal requirements listed in SECTION E -- SOLICITATION PROVISIONS; E.1 -- INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS; 52.212-1 -- Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial Items. Failure to submit a technical quote package for review according to the instructions within the solicitation will result in non-award.

SET-ASIDES: The agreement will be competitively awarded. The Government anticipates awarding multiple preseason Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements (I-BPAs) using a total Small Business set aside with further consideration for SDVOSB & HUBzone. See Section B.6 -- SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ADVANTAGE APPLICABLE TO DPL RANKING.

****The solicitation will be issued using the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system****

1) Vendors must have a valid e-mail address; all VIPR communications, to include rate negotiations and award notification, are conducted via e-mail.

2) Vendors must have a valid DUNS Number. Request a free DUNS Number from https://iupdate.dnb.com/iUpdate/companylookup.htm.

3) Vendors must have active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM): https://www.sam.gov/SAM/.

4) Vendors are required to have a USDA Level 2 eAuthentication account that provides the ability to conduct official electronic business transactions. Information: https://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/eauth.php. Fraudulent Level 2 eAuthentication accounts will be handled by the USDA Office of Inspector General (OIG) and/or the Forest Service?s Law Enforcement and Investigations Division (LEI).

5) Vendors must submit a quote electronically using the VIPR Vendor Application: http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/vendorapp.php.