The purpose of this solicitation is to secure services to maintain one-year old shrub seedling beds, 2 year old shrub and conifer beds and long-term seed increase beds in a weed-free condition between the months of May to August at the Lucky Peak Nursery. These services shall consist of removing the weeds without damaging seedlings or forbs, maintaining the seed beds in a condition so that there are no weeds of any size, remove and dispose of all extracted vegetative material to an agreed disposal site. The weeding may require multiple entries per field during the contract period. Services are to be performed at the USDA Forest Service, Lucky Peak Nursery, located approximately 17 miles east of Boise, ID on Highway 21. The Contractor will provide all supervision, labor, supplies, drinking water and sanitation facilities for the weeding operation, and incidental items that may be required in the performance of the contract. The Contractor will provide weeding tools, hoes and buckets or sacks for weeds. Provisions can be made to store contractor-provided equipment at the Nursery between scheduled weeding services. The Contractor will provide equipment for transportation of unwanted vegetation to dump station. Such equipment must be approved by the Government’s Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR). The Government will furnish the following property: receptacles/dump stations (dumpsters) into which the Contractor will dispose of the extracted weeds.
POC is Pamela Brande, Contracting Officer at pamela.brande@usda.gov
