FY28 Tree Planting
Forecast New Requirement Updated
- Agency
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Department of the Interior
- Solicitation expected
- Estimated value
- $1,000,000 to $1,900,000
- Set-aside
- Not on record
Forecast facts
- Anticipated award
- Not on record
- NAICS code
- 561730 Landscaping Services
- Place of performance
- OR
- Forecast number
- 56198
- Points of contact
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- Robert C Titcomb rtitcomb@blm.gov
Forecast details come from the GSA Acquisition Gateway. Agencies' dates and values are estimates.
About this forecast
The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management plans to procure contractors to plant trees in Oregon forests under the FY28 Tree Planting new requirement, with an estimated solicitation release on January 1, 2027. Contractors will plant trees at densities the BLM prescribes, then install vexar tubes to prevent browse and mulch mats to keep shrubs from overtopping the seedlings, with the BLM paying for both the planting and the protective installations. The work replants areas following timber harvests or wildfires, which the BLM states would otherwise convert to brush fields, and it supports timber targets under the 1937 Oregon and California (O&C) Act and a recent Executive action on timber production.
The estimated award value range is $1.0 million to $1.9 million, under NAICS 561730 (Landscaping Services). The forecast identifies close to 7,000 acres of prime growing timberland as the area at risk without planting, and it notes that delayed planting would require site preparation costing millions of dollars to remove brush. Place of performance is Oregon, USA. The point of contact is Robert C Titcomb, Silviculturist, Bureau of Land Management, at rtitcomb@blm.gov.
Forecast text
This project is to pay contractors to plant trees in the forest. The BLM will also pay contractors to install vexar tubes around the planted trees to prevent browse and they will install mulch mats around the planted trees to prevent shrubs from overtopping the planted trees. The contractors plant the trees in specified densities prescribed by the BLM. After a timber harvest or disturbance such as a wildfire, the BLM routinely plants trees in these areas to perpetuate a forested condition. Without planting, these areas will turn in brush fields which do not meet our land use objectives. Once the trees are planted, the BLM manages the young forest in such a way that these areas will contribute timber volume to meet our timber targets which comes from the 1937 Oregon and California (O&C) act. This package is directly related to the recent Executive action on timber production from this administration. If these areas are not planted, close to 7,000 acres of prime growing timberland will turn in brush fields. If we choose to plant these areas at a later time, we will be required to spend millions of dollars to conduct site preparations to remove the brush prior to planting.
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