Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Bitterroot Front 10 Year G-Z IRSC
Department of Agriculture · Forest Service · Sol. 12363N26R4014
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The U.S. Forest Service (Stewardship Contracting Branch) wants a contractor for a roughly 10-year Long Term Integrated Resource Service Contract on the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana (Stevensville and Darby Ranger Districts). The contractor would lay out and cruise (measure) timber units, cut and remove timber, and do road work to cut wildfire risk across a project area of about 145,000 acres. The work runs 6/15/2027 to 10/15/2037, is paid with stewardship credits and appropriated funds, and the notice describes it as a total small business set-aside.
Watch out for
- Very long, large commitment. The contract runs more than ten years with about 103,900 tons of mandatory timber listed plus optional areas, so it needs heavy equipment, crews, bonding and cash flow over a long period.
Period of Performance: 6/15/2027-10/15/2037
- Large bid guarantee and payment protection. A bid guarantee of 20 percent of the mandatory reconstruction price is due with the proposal (a missing or wrong guarantee can make you unresponsive), plus payment protection within 10 days of award and a payment guarantee for timber.
A Bid Guarantee of 20% of the proposed price for mandatory reconstruction requirements is required
- Solicitation documents still being corrected. Amendment 001 admits conflicting dates and terms (road deadlines, completion year, sequence of work) and says corrected documents, including a corrected schedule of items, will come in a later amendment, so pricing and schedule could shift.
Corrections will be included in the next amendment.
- Prices largely locked for ten years. You may not add contingencies for future risk; only fuel (items 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8) and wage updates adjust, so cost increases in other areas fall on you.
Offerors are advised to base proposed pricing solely on current conditions and shall not include any upward
- No market-based term adjustment. The Government declined to add a market-conditions term adjustment; the Contracting Officer only may consider time extensions for delays outside your control.
The CO may consider time extensions for delays outside the control of the
- Broad scope across layout, cruising, logging and roads. One contractor must do unit layout, cruise design and data processing, timber removal and road construction, which is a wide mix of skills and subcontractors for a small business.
1. Contractor to complete the layout and cruising of selected project areas.
- Set-aside shown differently in the posting. The SAM.gov set-aside field says none while the description says total small business set-aside, and the offer due date was moved from 10/08/2026 to 10/22/2026, so confirm eligibility and dates with the contracting officers.
This acquisition is a Total Small Business Set-Aside.
- Offer due date changed. The SF-1449 shows an October 8 due date while Amendment 001 extends it to October 22, 2026.
extends the offer due to 10/22/2026.
Read from the notice and 12 attachments. 15 not read in full.
- C04_BItterroot Front G-Z LTIRSC_12363N26R4014_SF1449.pdf
- C05a_A001_12363N26R4014.pdf
- C04a_1. 12363N25R4013 BRF LTIRSC.pdf
- C04f_5a McCalla-Larson Road Plans.pdf
- C04f_5b McCalla-Larson FSSS.pdf
- C04g_6a Tin Square Road Plans.pdf
- C04h_6b Tin Square FSSS.pdf
- C04i_7a Spoon McCoy Road Plans.pdf
- C04j_7b Spoon McCoy FSSS.pdf
- C04k_8a Hart Trap Road Plans.pdf
- C04l_8b Hart Trap FSSS.pdf
- C04n_9b Typical Road FSSS.pdf
- C04b_1b BRF G-Z LTIRSC SOI_12363N26R4014.xlsx: spreadsheet: not read yet
- C05b_A001_BRF_MandatoryContractAreas.gdb.zip: .zip files aren't read yet
- C05c_A001_BRF_OptionalContractAreas.gdb.zip: .zip files aren't read yet
- C04c_2b. BRF Unit Vol Data.xlsx: spreadsheet: not read yet
- C04o_10. BRF G-Z LTIRSC Mandatory Subdivisions Contract Area Maps.zip: .zip files aren't read yet
- C04p_11 BRF G-Z LTIRSC Optional Subdivisions.zip: .zip files aren't read yet
- C04q_12 Mandatroy Subdivision Cruise Data.zip: .zip files aren't read yet
- C04t_14a DBA WDMT20260080v3.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- C04u_15 BRG G-Z LTIRSC Agency Supplementals.zip: .zip files aren't read yet
- C04c_2a BRF G-Z LTIRSC Appendix A.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- C04d_3a BRF G-Z LTIRSC Appendix B.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- C04e_4a BRF G-Z LTIRSC Appendix C.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- C04m_9a Typical Road Drawings.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- C04r_13a SCA WD1976_1342 v84 08132026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- C04s_13b SCA WD2015_5401 v29 08222026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
Full brief
What they want
- Cut and remove included timber from five mandatory subdivisions: Sharrott Salvage (8,044 tons), McCalla-Larson (29,791), Fred Burr (1,982), Square Tin (9,019) and Spoon McCoy (55,050)
- Reconstruct National Forest System roads in the McCalla-Larson, Square Tin and Spoon McCoy subdivisions (mandatory estimate $350,000 to $550,000)
- Lay out timber units with flagging, boundary tags, paint and GPS of all unit boundaries
- Design cruise plans, run timber cruises and process the data in awarded areas
- Complete required road maintenance, construction, reconstruction and closure work
- Price optional subdivisions; the Contracting Officer may award optional items in any order and in part by unit
- Price all items on the Schedule of Items spreadsheet: mandatory items, optional items and the Timber Products schedule
- Contract type
- Long Term Integrated Resource Service Contract (stewardship contract) for commercial services, with unit-priced mandatory and optional items; paid in stewardship credits and appropriated funds
- Period of performance
- 6/15/2027 to 10/15/2037 (Amendment 001 confirms the correct completion date is 10/15/2037); mandatory work plus optional items awarded later at the Government's discretion
- Place of performance
- Bitterroot National Forest, Stevensville and Darby Ranger Districts, Ravalli County, Montana (about 145,000 acre project area)
- Estimated value
- No total stated. Only the mandatory road reconstruction (Item 2) is estimated at between $350,000 and $550,000.
- Offers due
- 2026-10-22T09:00:00-06:00 (9:00 AM Mountain time, October 22, 2026; Amendment 001 extended it from 10/08/2026)
- How to submit
- Email to Mark Phillipp (mark.phillipp@usda.gov) and Matt Daigle (matthew.daigle@usda.gov)
What they'll judge offers on
- Benefit to the Local Community (rated Outstanding, Satisfactory or Marginal; hiring and purchasing within 100 miles of the Bitterroot National Forest boundary)
- Present/past performance and experience (vendor-supplied questionnaires)
What to include when you submit
- Price all items on the yellow-shaded cells of the Schedule of Items spreadsheet (Mandatory, Optional and Timber Products schedules); unit prices prevail
- Include the 20 percent bid guarantee for the mandatory road reconstruction price with the proposal
- Complete the Experience Questionnaire (Enclosure 2) and collect Present/Past Performance Questionnaires from your references to include in the proposal
- Complete the representations, including Taxpayer ID and SAM UEI
- Describe local hiring and purchasing within 100 miles of the Bitterroot National Forest boundary (straight-line distance)
- Acknowledge Amendment 001 and any later amendments; a further amendment with corrected documents is expected
- Business proposal requirements are in FAR 52.212-1 of the solicitation, which was cut off in the text provided
You must have
- Small business concern under NAICS 113310 (Logging) with a 500-employee size standard; the description calls it a total small business set-aside
the small business size standard is 500 Employees
- Bid guarantee of 20 percent of the proposed price for mandatory road reconstruction, submitted with the proposal
A Bid Guarantee of 20% of the proposed price for mandatory reconstruction requirements is required
- Alternate payment protections for construction over $35,000, provided within 10 days of award
Alternate Payment Protections are required for construction
- Payment guarantee covering the timber to be cut within 60 days, maintained throughout the contract (stewardship credit earned is applied against it)
Payment guarantee is only required to be maintained on the amount of timber to be cut
- Davis-Bacon wage rates apply to the work (construction wage determinations are attached and will be updated as options are exercised)
Davis-Bacon wage rates.
- Active SAM registration with a UEI and Taxpayer Identification Number on the representations
Quoter shall insert their SAM UEI number
- Past performance: vendor must gather and submit reference questionnaires and an experience questionnaire
The vendor is responsible for gathering response to the Present/Past performance questionnaire
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. One attachment is titled with solicitation number 12363N25R4013 while the notice number is 12363N26R4014, which may indicate an earlier version of this requirement; the notice does not say.
Not in the notice text
- Evaluation factors, their order of importance and the award method (FAR 52.212-2) and proposal instructions and page limits (FAR 52.212-1) are in portions of the solicitation that were cut off
- Contents of Appendices A, B and C (contract terms and work specifications), the Schedule of Items spreadsheet, unit volume data, cruise data, maps and geodatabases, and Davis-Bacon and SCA wage determinations were not provided to this brief
- Full list of optional items and how long optional items stay exercisable at awarded prices
- Corrected dates, schedule and Appendix B terms promised in the next amendment
- Exact bid guarantee and payment protection amounts (they depend on your proposed price)
- Whether the set-aside is total small business (the SAM.gov field says none)
- How stewardship credits are earned and applied against timber payments
- Any incumbent or prior contractor
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Key facts
- Response due
- Oct 22, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Oct 9, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Solicitation
- 12363N26R4014
- Agency
- Department of Agriculture · Forest Service
- Office
- USDA-FS, Stewardship Contracting Branch
- NAICS
- 113310
- Product/service code
- F099
- Business type
- Environmental & natural resources
- Place of performance
- MT, 59829
- Contracting contact
- Matt Daigle, Stewardship Acquisition Program Support Officermatthew.daigle@usda.gov6054159057
- Versions
- 5 (amended since first posted)
What similar contracts paid
3 contracts at this agency under the same NAICS code, in the same state, had activity in the last 5 years, according to USAspending.gov. Small businesses won 100% of the dollars in this market over the last 3 fiscal years.
Typical contract$572KMiddle half: $287K to $3.5M
Typical per year$134KValue divided by years of performance
Before you respond
Full notice text from SAM.gov
10/9/2026- Amendment 002 Posted. This Amendment provides responses to additional questions received and corrected solicitation documents. Past Performance evaluation criteria has been amended in the Solicitation to align with requested information in the instructions. Corrected documents are indicated with A002 in the file name with all changes indicated in red text. 9/17/2026- Amendment 001 Posted 8/3/2026- Replaces word versions of Attachements C04c_2a, C04d_3a and C04e_4a (Appendicies A-C) with PDFs. No other corrections. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Part 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Proposals are being requested and a separate written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number 12363N26R4014 is issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Bitterroot Front G-Z Long Term Integrated Resource Service Contract. The Bitterroot Front Project area spans roughly 145,000 acres across the Stevensville and Darby Ranger Districts, where dense, overstocked mixed?conifer stands and widespread tree mortality have increased susceptibility to insect outbreaks and extreme wildfire behavior. Following a decade of severe fires, the project aims to reduce wildfire risk to nearby communities and restore forest health through treatments such as thinning, harvesting, mechanical fuel reduction, and prescribed burning. These efforts focus on improving stand vigor, promoting fire?adapted species, reducing hazardous fuels, and enhancing safety and effectiveness for wildfire responders. A secondary objective of the long?term contract is to provide a consistent timber supply for local forest products industries, while contractors complete tasks including unit layout, timber cruising, road work, and timber removal as part of a broader strategy to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration. This acquisition is set-aside for small business concerns. The applicable North American Industry Classification Standard Code is 113310 and the small business size standard is 500 Employees This acquisition is a Total Small Business Set-Aside. All responsible sources may submit a quotation which will be considered by the agency. Proposals are to be submitted via email to Mark Phillipp at mark.phillipp@usda.gov and Matt Daigle at matthew.daigle@usda.gov.
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