Trout Creek Cut-To-Length Stewardship IRSC

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Part 12. Using this format, no separate presolicitation is required and this announcement constitutes the only solicitation.

Solicitation number 12363N26Q4068 is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for Trout Creek Cut-to-Length Stewardship IRSC (Integrated Resource Service Contract). Award shall be made under the R5 Pacific Southwest Stewardship BPA. Only current BPA holders are eligible to submit quotes. Quotes received from vendors that have not been awarded an R5 Pacific Southwest Stewardship BPA will be rejected; no evaluation of the submitted documents will be performed.

The project area is located on the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the USDA Forest Service in California. Using Cut-to-Length logging systems that operate on a bed of slash, sawtimber shall be cut and removed from up to 248 acres. Small trees shall be thinned and standing dead shall be cut and removed to landings. Small fuels shall be treated by mastication and/or removed to landings. Biomass and cull logs shall be hauled off-Forest. To facilitate product removal, temporary roads shall be installed and decommissioned following use and road maintenance shall be performed.

This service acquisition is a total small business set-aside. The set-aside relates to the business status of the contractors submitting quotes and does not limit where the wood products may be sold. The applicable North American Industry Classification Standard Code is 113310 - Logging. The small business size standard is 500 employees. All responsible sources that have been awarded R5 Pacific Southwest Stewardship Blanket Purchase Agreements for work on the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit may submit a quotation which will be considered by the agency.