Description
The Natural Resources Department is seeking bids for the labor, equipment, materials, tools, transportation, herbicide, and incidentals necessary to target buckthorn, honeysuckle, and multiflora rose on four bluff prairies on the Kronseder/Anderson Tract of the Richard J Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest in Houston County. The work includes basal bark application, hand-cutting, hand application of herbicide, and piling vegetation. The project is divided into three jobs, each with a different scope of work and quantity of acres to be treated.
• Job 1: Cut and Treat Large Buckthorn and Honeysuckle (Low Density/No piling) - 49.4 acres
• Job 2: Cut and Treat Large Buckthorn and Honeysuckle (High Density/Piling required) - 2.2 acres
• Job 3: Basal Bark OR Cut Stump small buckthorn and other non-natives (Medium Density/No Piling) - 2.7 acres
Bidders must submit their responses electronically through the Swift Portal, and the award will be made to the lowest responsible vendor meeting the specifications and all terms and conditions.