Pacific Southwest (PSW) STEWARDSHIP BPA (R5 Multiple Forests)

The Pacific Southwest (PSW) Stewardship Blanket Purchase Agreement administers a continuous, full‑and‑open procurement for integrated stewardship services on Federal and local agency lands within a 150‑mile radius of numerous California National Forests, now expanded to include Angeles, Cleveland, Los Padres, and San Bernardino Forests. The agreement covers a range of hazardous fuels and restoration tasks such as mechanical and hand cutting, piling, lopping, and removal of non‑sawtimber, biomass, and non‑included material, as well as commercial timber harvesting and removal of included timber, and road construction, maintenance, and decommissioning. Prospective contractors are required to submit technical and pricing proposals in PDF format, provide best­commercial rates for each activity, and remain actively registered in SAM.gov to be eligible for subsequent call orders.

Multiple awards will be issued on an individual forest basis after evaluation of technical proposals, pricing, and benefits to local communities. Call orders are released exclusively to contractors awarded under this BPA and may include Integrated Resource Service Contracts that require timber removal, service‑based IRSCs that allow timber subject to agreement, or restoration‑based service contracts without timber removal. All work must be planned and executed in compliance with federal, state, and local statutes, environmental quality laws, and the Forest Service’s detailed specifications for timber removal, fuel treatment, and road maintenance.

All work must comply with the applicable federal, state, and local statutes and regulations, adhere to the specified timber specifications, hazard fuel treatment guidelines, and road maintenance requirements.

Contract Opportunity Type: Solicitation (o)

Product Service Code: F099-NATURAL RESOURCES/CONSERVATION- OTHER
NAICS Code:
115310-Support Activities for Forestry

**Amendment 001 **

1. Changes Solicitation offer due date to: This solicitation will remain Open and Continuous. Proposals for this BPA may be received for the life of the BPA. Proposals will be evaluated at the convenience of the Forest Service.
2. Adds the following Forests to the BPA: Angeles, Cleveland, Los Padres, and San Bernardino National Forests.
3. Changes Small Business Size Standard for NAICS 115310 from $8 Million to $30 Million for future call orders.
4. Replaces the Solicitation and Appendix A in their enterity, updating with additional Forest information.
5. Updates contact information for BPA. 

The PSW Stewardship BPA shall be awarded under the following authority:
Stewardship Authority: Section 604 (16 USC 6591c) of Public Law 108-148 as amended by Section 8205 of Public Law 113-79, the Agricultural Act of 2014—Grants the U.S. Forest Service (Government) permanent authority to enter into stewardship contracts or agreements to achieve land management goals for the National Forests or public lands that meet local and rural community needs. Section 8205 supersedes the temporary authority granted to the Forest Service (Government) in section 347 of Public Law 105-277, the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Appropriations Act, 1999.

Stewardship authorities permit the Government to solicit this requirement as Full and Open competition.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

This US Forest Service Stewardship BPA will cover Federal and local agency lands within 150 miles of the boundaries of the Angeles, Cleveland, Eldorado, Inyo, Klamath, Lassen, LTBMU, Los Padres, Mendocino, Modoc, Plumas, San Bernardino, Sequoia, Shasta-Trinity, Sierra, Six Rivers, Stanislaus, and Tahoe National Forest in California. Work may also be accomplished on private 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. Examples of the types of Hazardous Fuels and Restoration work that may be included are cutting and removal of sawtimber, non-sawtimber, and/or biomass; mastication, hand cutting and piling; and road maintenance. 

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. This BPA will be the primary means in which future Call Orders issued include: (1) Integrated Resource Service Contract (IRSC) with required timber product removal; (2) Service-based IRSC that includes the option for Timber Subject to Agreement products to be removed when there is no required timber product removal; and (3) Restoration-based Service contract in which no timber product removal is included.

Future Call Orders for specific projects will be emailed to only the Contractors awarded under this BPA. As such, it is imperative that all interested individuals have an email account, and that all firms must be actively registered in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov)  to be eligible for award under this solicitation. If not actively registered, the Forest Service will be unable to make a BPA award; thereby, effectively excluding an otherwise successful offeror from receiving a Call Order solicitation. Registration in SAM is a free service. Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) offers resources that are available free of charge at www.aptac-us.org/find-a-ptac/ in order to assist with both SAM registration and in proposal submission.

Points of contact for this solicitation are:

• Curtis Yocum, Stewardship Aquisition Program Support Officer, Stewardship and Disaster Recovery Contracting Branch, curtis.yocum@usda.gov
• Matt Daigle, Stewardship Aquisition Program Support Officer, Stewardship and Disaster Recovery Contracting Branch, matthew.daigle@usda.gov
• Brad Seaberg, R5 Timber Program Lead, bradford.seaberg@usda.gov. 
• Questions must be submitted in writing and emailed to Curtis Yocum, Matt Daigle and Brad Seaberg.

If you have issues downloading the solicitation attachments, contact Nikki Layton at nikki.layton@usda.gov.

The Contracting Officer for this BPA is Mark T. Phillipp, National Stewardship Contracting Branch, and can be reached at mark.phillipp@usda.gov.

Offers must be emailed to Mark Phillipp and Matt Daigle for consideration.

Notice ID: 12363N22Q4055

Additional buyer information

Department/Ind. Agency: AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
Sub-tier: FOREST SERVICE
Major Command: USDA-FS, STEWARDSHIP CONTRACTING BRANCH