Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Corral G-Z Stewardship IRSC, Region 6, Fremont-Winema National Forest, Bly Ranger District, Bly , Oregon
Department of Agriculture · Forest Service
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AI summaryPhased buy: the U.S. Forest Service (Stewardship Contracting Branch, for the Bly Ranger District, Fremont-Winema National Forest, Oregon) is asking small businesses for quotes by November 16, 2026, 5:00 PM Pacific, on a mandatory first phase (logging on the Corral project area, plus planning, boundary layout and timber cruise for the Grizzly project area) and optional later work on Grizzly that the contracting officer may add in any order. It is a request for quotation (RFQ: a quote, not a full proposal) for a firm-fixed-price (FFP: set unit prices) integrated resource service contract (IRSC: logging and forest-fuels work packaged into one stewardship contract) near Bly, Oregon, running from award through October 31, 2031. The whole project is estimated at about 191,379 tons of commercial timber on about 7,000 acres plus fuels reduction on about 17,000 acres. More in the summary
A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 14, 2026. See the latest version.
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Summary of another version of this notice: check what changed on SAM.gov. This summary may miss requirements: 10 of 22 attachments weren't read (C04_12363N26Q4181Corral_G-ZProjectAreaCAM.pdf, C04_12363N26Q4181Attachment5_Project Design Criteria.pdf and 8 more). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
Phased buy: the U.S. Forest Service (Stewardship Contracting Branch, for the Bly Ranger District, Fremont-Winema National Forest, Oregon) is asking small businesses for quotes by November 16, 2026, 5:00 PM Pacific, on a mandatory first phase (logging on the Corral project area, plus planning, boundary layout and timber cruise for the Grizzly project area) and optional later work on Grizzly that the contracting officer may add in any order. It is a request for quotation (RFQ: a quote, not a full proposal) for a firm-fixed-price (FFP: set unit prices) integrated resource service contract (IRSC: logging and forest-fuels work packaged into one stewardship contract) near Bly, Oregon, running from award through October 31, 2031. The whole project is estimated at about 191,379 tons of commercial timber on about 7,000 acres plus fuels reduction on about 17,000 acres.
Who can bid (5)
- Small business: this is a total small business set-aside under NAICS 113310 (Logging), size standard 500 employees
- Oregon Farm/Forest Labor Contractor's License for labor-intensive work such as manual cutting and piling (the contractor and any subcontractor doing it), or a signed exemption; proof is due before the Notice to Proceed if not yet licensed
- Workforce certification for MSPA and Farm Labor Contractor registration (with a copy of the certificate if used), and a Department of Labor H-2B certificate if H-2B workers will be used
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- A contractor without a Farm Labor Contractor certificate must show proof of getting one before award or is not eligible
- Certification of compliance with Federal anti-discrimination laws, including that no program the contractor or its subcontractors run violates those laws
How to submit: Email to Mark Phillipp (contracting officer) at mark.phillipp@usda.gov and Kasandra Meyer (contract specialist) at Kasandra.meyer@usda.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (10)
From the version posted Oct 14, 2026.
- Serious: Total small business set-aside. Only small businesses (500 employees or fewer under NAICS 113310) can quote.
- Serious: Phased work: Grizzly optional work depends on planning, cruise and an agreed timber rate. Mandatory Items 4 through 8 (plan, boundaries, logging plan, cruise) come first; the Forest Service then appraises the Grizzly timber, and the optional commercial thinning, service work and road maintenance are not carried out if the two sides cannot agree on the appraised rate within 14 business days. Optional items are awarded in any order the contracting officer chooses, so a quoter may never get the optional work it priced.
- Serious: Unit prices are locked while quantities are still estimates. Grizzly quantities are gross estimates until the planning and cruise items are accepted, and the fixed unit prices will not be renegotiated when the real quantities are known, so pricing errors are the contractor's risk.
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- Worth checking: Large multi-year logging job. The project covers about 7,000 acres of commercial timber, about 17,000 acres of fuels reduction and about 191,379 tons of timber through 2031, which takes heavy equipment, crews and working capital.
- Worth checking: Minimum acceptable quote for Corral timber. Quotes for the Corral sawtimber must be at least $9.29 per ton, so the contractor pays for the timber it removes.
- Worth checking: Oregon labor contractor license and workforce certifications. Manual cutting and piling needs a State of Oregon Farm/Forest Labor Contractor's License (or a signed exemption), and a farm labor contractor certificate may be needed before award; missing a required license can end the contract for default.
- Worth checking: Contract can be interrupted by litigation. The contractor accepts the risk that the contract is interrupted or ended because of lawsuits over the environmental review, with only the standard termination remedies.
- Minor: Site visit moved to October 29, 2026. Amendment 001 moved the site visit from October 22, 2026 to October 29, 2026 (meet-up 10:00 AM PT, southeast of the Bly Ranger Station) and the attendance count email from October 19, 2026 to October 26, 2026. Quoters are urged and expected to inspect the site, but the text does not make it mandatory; written questions are encouraged at least five days before the visit.
- Minor: End date of the period of performance differs. The form says through October 31, 2031, amended page 9 says October 30, 2031, and the fire plan says November 1, 2031; ask the contracting officer which governs.
- Minor: Amendment 002 changed quantities. Amendment 002 revised the acres for Items 14, 16 and 21 (the base solicitation listed 3,000, 1,613 and 215; the amended page shows 2,880, 1,343 and 200) and replaced the Grizzly map, so use the amended schedule when pricing.
Read from the notice and 12 attachments. 10 of 22 not read. Show which files.
- A002_C05_12363N26Q4181Corral G-Z IRSC Solicitation_pgs5_6.pdf (read)
- C04_12363N26Q4181Corral G-Z IRSC IRSC Solicitation.pdf (read)
- C05_A001_12363N26Q4181_SF30.pdf (read)
- C04_12363N26Q4181Corral_G-Z_AppendixB_TimberSpecs.pdf (read)
- C04_12363N26Q4181Corral G-ZTrafficControlPlan.pdf (read)
- C04_12363N26Q4181Corral_G-ZSiteVisitMap.pdf (read)
- C04_12363N26Q4181Corral_SignedCruise.pdf (read)
- C04_12363N26Q4181CorralG-Z_FirePlan.pdf (read)
- C04_12363N26Q4181Attachment1_ForestProductAccountabilityActionPlan.pdf (read)
- C04_12363N26Q4181Attachment2_Design Features.pdf (read)
- C04_12363N26Q4181Attachment3_Logging Plan Summary.pdf (read)
- C04_12363N26Q4181Attachment4_Prescriptions.pdf (read)
- C04_12363N26Q4181Corral_G-ZProjectAreaCAM.pdf: not read (it couldn't be opened): open it on SAM.gov
- C04_12363N26Q4181Attachment5_Project Design Criteria.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- C04_12363N26Q4181Attachment6_FSH_FSM_Cruise_AreaDeter.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- A002_C05_GrizzlyNoTreat.zip: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- A002_C05_RevisedGrizzlyProjectAreaMap.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- A001CorralGtoZ_IRSC_FinalUnitPool.zip: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- A001GrizzlyPotentialUnitPool.zip: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- C04_12363N26Q4181Corral_G-Z_Appendix A_TechSpecs.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- C04_12363N26Q4181Corral_G-Z_Appendix C_RoadMtc.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- C04_12363N26Q4181_SCA_WD_1977-0079_83_08132026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Corral project area (3,875 acres): cut, skid and deck (pull to a landing and stack) trees on 722 acres of control features and 1,584 acres of timber units, and remove the included timber, about 135,758 tons of sawtimber
- Grizzly planning and layout (mandatory): project area implementation plan for 6,095 gross acres (lump sum), locate, flag and GPS 38 known cultural sites, flag, tag, paint and GPS unit boundaries (about 1,595,585 feet), and a detailed logging plan
- Grizzly timber cruise (mandatory): 20 pre-cruise plots and 120 final cruise plots to measure timber volume
- Optional Corral service work: 1,296 acres of control-feature cutting, 859 acres in plantations, 723 acres in natural stands, 152 acres of small-tree thinning in old growth, and hand-piling on 777 acres of woodland, shrubland and meadow
- Optional Grizzly work: commercial timber removal on 2,880 gross acres, 820 acres of transmission line treatments, 1,343 acres of control features, 2,500 acres of timber units, 379 acres of natural stands, 56 acres of whitebark pine restoration, 415 acres of old-growth thinning, and 200 acres of aspen conifer removal
- Monitor designation by prescription (DxP: the Forest Service sets written rules and the contractor picks which trees to cut and leave) and virtual boundaries on 5,000 gross acres (optional)
- Quote a price per ton for the Corral timber (minimum acceptable quote $9.29 per ton) and a bid premium per ton for the Grizzly timber
- Pay for third-party weight scaling of logs, post traffic control signs, and follow the fire plan and project design criteria
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price commercial services stewardship contract (integrated resource service contract) with mandatory and optional unit-priced items and a timber removal price schedule. Land management work is paid in stewardship credits and appropriated funds.
- Period of performance
- From date of award through October 31, 2031 (the amended page 9 says October 30, 2031 and the fire plan says November 1, 2031)
- Place of performance
- Bly, OR, USA: Corral project area near Bly in T36S and T37S, R16-17E, Lake County, Oregon, and the Grizzly project area, Bly Ranger District, Fremont-Winema National Forest
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- Best value: the Government will award to the responsible quoter whose quote is most advantageous to it, as set by the solicitation's evaluation criteria. Technical proposals and price quotes are sent separately. For Grizzly, Forest Service calculates a total value from the timber assumptions and the bid premium quote.
- Offers due
- November 16, 2026, 5:00 PM Pacific
- How to submit
- Email to Mark Phillipp (contracting officer) at mark.phillipp@usda.gov and Kasandra Meyer (contract specialist) at Kasandra.meyer@usda.gov
What they'll judge offers on
- Technical proposal: content and criteria are in the solicitation's instructions to quoters, which were not in the text read
- Price: unit prices for all schedule items, the Corral timber quote, and the Grizzly Total Value Bid Premium (a premium above 0.00 dollars per ton is not required but is evaluated for best value)
What to include when you submit
- Send the technical proposal and the price quote separately
- Keep the quote valid for 60 days after the date the solicitation is received
- Price every item in the schedules: mandatory Items 2 through 8, optional Items 9 through 13 and 15 through 22, the total quote for Corral timber products, and the Total Value Bid Premium for Grizzly. Items 1 and 14 are non-pay and need no price
- Corral timber quote: each species must be at least the minimum acceptable quote of $9.29 per ton
- Send a primary proposal for all work. A firm with an alternative plan must also send a second Alternative price proposal and Alternative technical proposal
- Include the signed workforce certification for the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA), Farm Labor Contractor registration and H-2B workers (Section 69), and each subcontractor's signed certification
- Include the Oregon Farm/Forest Labor Contractor's License number, or the signed license exemption (Section 70)
- Acknowledge Amendments 001 and 002
After award, you must have
- Third-party log scaling (weighing) by an organization the Forest Service approves, at the contractor's cost From C04_12363N26Q4181Corral_G-Z_AppendixB_TimberSpecs.pdf:
…accordance with Division A9 and Contractor shall bear costs for Scaling service.
Not in the notice text
- Much of the solicitation is missing from the text read: the middle of the main solicitation (about 167,000 characters, including the instructions to quoters, evaluation criteria, technical proposal requirements and most contract clauses) was left out, as were large parts of Appendix B and the cruise report. Appendix A technical specifications, Appendix C road maintenance, the project design criteria (Attachment 5), the cruise and area determination handbook (Attachment 6), the project area map and the Service Contract Act wage determination (1977-0079) were too large to read, and the unit pool and no-treatment spatial data are zip files that were not read. They are posted with the notice on SAM.gov.
- Technical proposal contents, evaluation factors and their order, and page limits are in the part of the solicitation that was not read.
- Whether bonding or a payment guarantee is required is not in the text read.
- The Government's estimate or contract value is not stated.
- Grizzly timber quantities and the contract timber rate come from the cruise and Forest Service appraisal after award; the appraisal is not shared.
- Wage rates under the Service Contract Act wage determination were not read.
Eligibility and how to respond
- Set aside for small businesses: only a business that counts as small under this notice's NAICS code can bid as the prime contractor. More open small business set-asides under NAICS 113310
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to Mark Phillipp (contracting officer) at mark.phillipp@usda.gov and Kasandra Meyer (contract specialist) at Kasandra.meyer@usda.gov. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Office
- USDA-FS, Stewardship Contracting Branch, Washington, DC
- Product/service code
- F014 · Natural Resources/Conservation – Tree Thinning
- Business type
- Environmental & natural resources (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 113310)
- Versions
4 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 14, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 16, 2026
- Oct 6, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 16, 2026
- Oct 6, 2026 · Amendment 0002 (this version)Due Nov 16, 2026
- Oct 1, 2026 · Combined Synopsis/SolicitationDue Nov 16, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Set-aside contracts explained
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
Amendment 002: Posted 10/14/2026 - Revises Pages 5 and 6 of the Solicitation Schedule of Items. Quanties for Item 14, 16 and 21 are revised. Adds Grizzly project area spatial data for "no treatment areas." Replaces Grizzly Treatment Area Map. See attachments for SF30 with amended solicitation pages 5 and 6, spatial data zip file and new Grizzly Project Area Map. Amendment 001: Posted 10/06/2026 - Changes Site Visit date from Thursday, October 22, 2026 to Thursday, October 29, 2026. Adds Project Spatial Data zip files. See attachments for SF30 with amended solicitation pages, and spatial data files. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial services prepared in accordance with FAR 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested, and a separate written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number 12363N26Q4181 is issued as a request for quotation (RFQ). This project follows the G to Z Integrated Resource Stewardship Contract (IRSC) model which is a unique approach that takes projects from signed NEPA decision and reintroduction of fire on the landscape. The Corral G-Z Integrated Resource Service Contract directly supports Executive Order 14225, the Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production, Secretary Rollins Memorandum 1078-006 and follows the direction put forth by Acting Associate Chief Chris French in producing timber volume, reducing hazardous fuels, providing wood fiber to struggling industries and supporting local economies surrounding the Fremont-Winema National Forest. The objectives of this project are 1) to restore forest health and vigor by reverting stand density and species composition to their historical range of variability, while also 2) mitigating the threat of catastrophic wildfire by reducing hazardous fuels. These objectives will be accomplished through the following: Professional Forestry: Completion of harvest layout, timber marking, timber volume determination and acre determination of harvest unit boundaries, and DxP prescription monitoring. Logging and Fuels Reduction: Cut and remove an estimated 191,379 tons of commercial timber on approximately 7,000 acres, and fuels reduction on approximately 17,000 acres. Removal will include ground-based logging systems utilizing whole tree yarding, cutting, skidding and decking sub-merchantable trees in plantations, fuel breaks and general stands. Cut and pile encroaching conifers in meadow areas and release cuts in whitebark pine stands. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 113310 –logging, with a small business size standard of 500 employees. The product service code is F014. The government will award a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) contract resulting from this combined synopsis/solicitation to the responsible quoter whose quote, conforming to the synopsis/solicitation, will be most advantageous to the government (as determined by the solicitation evaluation criteria). All responsible sources may submit a quotation which will be considered by the agency, and shall be valid for 60 days after the date of receipt for the solicitation.
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