Wildfire Mitigation Service

The government authority in Routt, Colorado is seeking a vendor to provide wildfire mitigation services along a critical ingress and egress route. This route serves as the sole entry and exit point for local residents and a high volume of recreational users. The primary objective of the project is to establish a fuel break that ensures safe evacuation for users during a wildfire and allows emergency responders to access the area for fire management. The project covers a route with varied vegetative composition, including mature cottonwood, lodgepole pine, subalpine fir, spruce, and mountain shrub species such as Gamble oak and serviceberry. The scope of work requires the removal of seventy to ninety percent of all vegetation, including dead and down material, with a priority on removing hazard trees. The selected vendor must establish an average of fifteen-foot canopy spacing for retained mature trees, remove slash and saplings acting as ladder fuels within driplines, and limb trees up to eight feet or the bottom one-third of total tree height, whichever is less. All cleared material must be chipped and broadcast back onto the forest floor at an even depth of no more than three inches, while any material that cannot be reasonably chipped must be hauled offsite. The performance of this work will take place offsite. The contract period for this project is one year. Eligible bidders must be located onshore in the United States. The agency is looking for proposals to determine the budget for this project. Bidders must submit all questions regarding this opportunity no later than June 15, 2026.