Description
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (USFS), is re-opening Solicitation 1204H125Q7000 for an open season Onboarding period. The solicitation is for Water Handling services in the Pacific Northwest Region, which includes states such as Oregon and Washington. The USFS is seeking vendors to provide water handling services, including engine and water tender resources, to support local, regional, and national fire suppression and all-hazard incidents.
• The solicitation is a 100% Small Business Set Aside.
• The USFS will award a sufficient number of I-BPAs anticipated to meet incident resource needs resulting from this solicitation to responsible quoters whose quotes conforming to the solicitation will be advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered.
• The evaluation factors include operational acceptability of equipment/resource offered, price reasonableness, and past performance dependability risk.
• The contract price includes all applicable Federal, State, and local taxes and duties.
• The USFS will determine annually whether it is in the Government's best interest to initiate an open season on-ramping process to add additional Contractors and/or resources during the annual Contracting Officer (CO) review period.