PBSC for Vegetation Management, Kisatchie National Forest

The contractor shall provide all materials, labor, equipment, tools, transportation, supervision, expertise, and other incidentals necessary to successfully complete vegetation management practices within the boundaries of the Kisatchie National Forest. Work includes tasks and subtasks related to herbicide application, tree planting, timber sale preparation, manual treatments with hand tools, red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW) inserts, mechanical treatments, and botanical and wildlife inventories on national forest land. This is a request for proposals which will result in award of firm fixed price, performance-based, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts for a basic period of performance of June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2013, plus four one-year option periods. Submission of an offer for the basic contract period constitutes an offer to perform in the option period(s), if exercised. The government anticipates making award to multiple offerors as a result of the solicitation. This project is set-aside 100% for small businesses. Award will be made based on the best value to the government and can be made on initial offers. The solicitation and related documents will be available for download at https://www.fbo.gov/ on or about February 16, 2012. No hard copies of the solicitation will be mailed out. Interested vendors should register to receive notifications through this site.