Description
The Pacific Northwest (PNW) Stewardship BPA is a commercial item acquisition that has been tailored to include fitting the Government’s method of trading goods for services in Stewardship instruments. The BPA will issue future calls for individual Hazardous Fuels and Restoration project areas, covering Federal and Non-Federal lands within 150 miles of and including the administrative boundaries of the Colville, Deschutes, Fremont-Winema, Gifford Pinchot, Malheur, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie, Mt. Hood, Ochoco, Okanogan-Wenatchee, Olympic, Rogue River-Siskiyou, Siuslaw, Umatilla, Umpqua, Wallowa-Whitman, and Willamette National Forests, and the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.
Key aspects of the job include:
* Commercial and non-commercial thinning, hand thinning and piling, grapple piling, mastication of fuels, biomass utilization, and road maintenance.
* Work may be accomplished on Non-Federal lands, but the BPA call will be issued and administered by a government entity.
* Multiple awards will be made for this BPA on an individual National Forest basis once the Forest Service has evaluated the technical proposals and pricing submitted in response to the solicitation.
* The period of performance of the awarded Blanket Purchase Agreements is 10 years from date of contract with option to extend up to 20 years.