Cattle Gathering

The State of Nevada, through the Department of Agriculture's Animal Industry Division, is seeking proposals from qualified vendors to safely and humanely remove approximately 200 estray/feral cattle from the McCullough Mountain and Highland Wilderness Ranges in Southern Nevada. The contract is for a one-year term, from February 8, 2022 to February 7, 2023, subject to approval by the Nevada State Board of Examiners. Vendors will be compensated through a per-animal pricing model, with ownership of all unclaimed cattle transferred to the contractor as partial payment. The contractor may utilize methods such as water traps, bait feeding, saddle horses, dogs, and helicopters to gather the cattle, with any alternative methods requiring prior approval. Proposals are due by December 9, 2021, and the State will accept questions via a Q&A process until November 18, 2021, with responses posted in an amendment around November 24, 2021. No pre-bid conference is scheduled.

The contract opportunity does not specify any set-aside designations or restrictions on the types of organizations that can respond. The State has indicated its intent to award the contract to Cattoor Livestock Roundup, Inc., but all proposals will remain confidential until the contract is awarded, at which point a Notification of Award will be issued, and the proposals and evaluation scores will be made public. The contract value or budget range is not provided in the available documentation.