DNR RFB Thief River Falls Area Buckthorn Treatment

The Department of Natural Resources is seeking bids for the labor, equipment, materials, tools, transportation, and incidentals necessary to cut and/or chemically treat invasive buckthorn using herbicide hand mechanical cutting on approximately 158.9 acres within Valley WMA located in Marshall County and Higinbotham WMA located in Pennington County, Minnesota. The work will consist of two years of treatment, with the first year serving as an initial treatment and the second year serving as a follow-up treatment for re-sprouts and any mature plants that may have been missed/survived during the initial treatment. • The bidder must have substantially completed, as a prime contractor, not a subcontractor, the work for at least one verifiable contract of similar scope of work and minimum acreage amount of 100 acres within the past 36 months. • The bidder must have current MN Commercial Pesticide Applicators Licenses for Contractor AND any/all Contractor’s personnel working with herbicides for the project. • The bidder must not have been found in default or had a contract terminated for cause in the last 36 months.