F--TOGNINI MASTICATION

TOGNINI MASTICATION
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Nevada State Office is seeking contractor services to
furnishing all labor, equipment, supervision, transportation, supplies and materials to masticate pinyon pine and juniper from 676 acres. There may be up to an additional 460 acres indicated as option years that would be awarded subject to available funding in subsequent years. Option years may be awarded as funding becomes available regardless of the status of the base units. The service requested is the mastication or grinding of whole tree biomass. The treatment will treat all pinyon pine and juniper (regardless of size) by removing them while leaving and not damaging any other species including mountain mahogany and service berry. The purpose of the project is to improve the overall health of targeted vegetation communities, reduce fuel loading, reduce threat from wildland fire to structures and infrastructure and improve wildlife habitat and other watershed values. The Solicitation will include contract documents with details of the project when it is released.
The treatment units are located in White Pine in Nevada. Service Contract Act (SCA) Wage Rate Requirements are applicable to this project and the appropriate SCA Wage Decision(s) will be included in the solicitation.
The BLM will issue a Total Small Business Set-Aside competitive solicitation on/about December 2, 2022. The BLM anticipates issuing a single firm fixed price award from this solicitation.
The competitive solicitation, 140L3923R0001, will be in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 19.5, Set-Asides for Small Business. The NAICS code for this acquisition is 115310, Support Activities for Forestry, Fuels Management Services and the size standard is $30.0M (per the SBA¿s Table of Small Business Size Standards).
A Request for Proposal (RFP) solicitation package will be available electronically on or about Friday December 2, 2022, at the SAM website located at www.sam.gov. Proposals will be due no later than Monday December 19, 2022. Potential offerors are responsible for monitoring www.sam.gov for the release of the solicitation package, for any other pertinent information, and for downloading a complete copy of the solicitation package. The government will not provide paper copies of the solicitation. To be eligible for contract award, offerors must be registered, and currently active, and complete the online Representations and Certification in the System for Award Management (SAM) data base via website: http://www.sam.gov.
Award will be based on Best Value to the Government in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). The Government reserves the right to award a contract to other than the low offeror(s).
This notice does not obligate the government to award a contract nor does it obligate the government to pay for any proposal preparation costs. The primary Point of Contact is Matthew B. Merritt, Contracting Officer, at mbmerritt@blm.gov. All questions must be submitted in writing to Matthew B. Merritt. Only written questions will be addressed.