About this opportunity
AI summaryThe USDA Forest Service seeks tree seedling lifting and processing non-personal services at the J. Herbert Stone Nursery on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest for fiscal year 2027 reforestation. The contractor must perform bareroot seedling lifting and field packing, container distribution and pick-up, popping or hand pulling of containerized plug seedlings, grading, sorting, counting, pruning, packaging, and cleaning of designated nursery facilities. Only the 17 approved businesses eligible for call orders under the Land Management Integrated Resources Blanket Purchase Agreement can compete for this award. The agency will email the competitive call order request for quotations and any subsequent changes directly to those eligible firms.
Scope of work
- Bareroot seedling lifting and field packing
- Distribution and pick-up of seedling containers and materials
- Popping or hand pulling containerized plug seedlings
- Grading, sorting, counting, pruning, and packaging of seedlings
- Hauling trailers with a contractor-provided 4x4 tractor with operator
- Cleaning of processing shed, break room, restrooms, and cull disposal tunnel
- Sweeping culls down disposal chutes
- Optional processing seedlings for transplanting
Minimum qualifications
- Contractor's Representative conversant in English and able to read and understand the contract
- Designated English-speaking non-working supervisor for every 12 laborers or portion thereof
- Designated English-speaking work leader to move and pick up containers
- Registered to transport employees as an FLC or FLC employee, if transporting workers
Documents to include with your response
- General safety plan complying with or exceeding OSHA standards
- Contractor Quality Control Plan (QCP)
- Written designation of supervisor(s) indicating limits of authority
- Active list of all employees (upon request)
Key dates
- Contract start
- November 19, 2026
- Contract end
- July 31, 2027
- Estimated winter lift and pack performance period
- between November 01 and February 15 of each year
- No work period
- December 25 to January 1
Contract details
- Term
- November 19, 2026 to July 31, 2027
- Place of performance
- J. Herbert Stone Nursery, located approximately 5 miles northwest of Medford, Oregon, between Jacksonville and Central Point, Oregon
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- 12363N27Q4005
- Agency
- Department of Agriculture
- Buying office
- Forest Service
- Notice type
- Special Notice
- Responses due
- Nov 9, 2026, 5:00 PM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Oct 29, 2026
- Place of performance
- Central Point, OR, 97502
- Contracting contact
- LMIR BPA Team
SM.FS.lmirbpa@usda.gov
9862171467
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Incumbent and award research
No incumbent history found for this requirement. The notice does not cite a current contract, and no earlier award from this buying office matches it.
Source: USAspending.gov federal award data (U.S. federal public data). A contract is called the incumbent only when the notice or its documents cite it by number.