U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT NEWS RELEASE
Utah State Office
Utah State Office
| Contacts: | Sam Wimmer, Procurement Analyst at 801.539.4177 |
Contractors Wanted: Agencies Partner to Reduce Wildfire Risk
Salt Lake City, UT--The Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish & Wildlife Service, and U.S. Forest Service plan to issue multiple contracts for a wide range of fuels management reduction work to reduce the risk of wildland fires. To help potential contractors understand this solicitation, pre-bid workshops have been scheduled.
The services in these contracts are designed to provide for wildfire hazard reduction, prescribed burning, and related services. This contract may require vegetation manipulation, burn unit preparation, and prescribed burning. This may include furnishing labor, supervision, transportation, operating supplies, and incidentals to perform all work necessary to conduct slashing, girdling, lop and scatter, thinning, selective slashing, pruning, fuel modification zone construction, hand piling and cover, fire line construction and maintenance, fuels removal, snag felling, roadblock removal/restoration, mastication, chipping, crushing, chaining, herbicide application, and seeding.
Hazardous fuel reduction treatments and related services within this contract may occur throughout the United States. This is a 100% Small Business Set-Aside opportunity.
Solicitation Number L12PS00465 for this Request for Proposals will close on November 1 2012. From www.fedconnect.net interested parties can access the solicitation by clicking "search public opportunities," change search criteria to "reference number," type in the solicitation number (L12PS00465) and click "search." Contracts must be registered at www.SAM.gov to be considered eligible for award.
Workshops are scheduled October 17, 2012 @ 3:00 pm and 22 October 2012 @ 7:00 pm at these locations:
Utah State Office – 440 W 200 S, Salt Lake CityWest Desert District – 2370 S 2300 W, Salt Lake CityColor Country District – 176 East DL Sargent Drive, Cedar CityGreen River District – 100 S 420 E, Vernal - VTCCanyon Country District - 82 East Dogwood, Moab - VTC
Please contact Sam Wimmer, Procurement Analyst at 801.539.4177 or sswimmer@blm.gov with any questions.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
Utah State Office 440 West 200 South, Suite 500 SLC, UT 84101-1345