About this opportunity
AI summaryThe United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service seeks capability statements from businesses to perform mating disruption aerial applications for the National Spongy Moth Slow the Spread program across 11 collaborative states. The prospective contractor must provide sufficient dispersal equipment, calibrate systems within specified tolerances, obtain required pesticide and application licenses, and apply the SPLAT mating disruptant to suppress spongy moth populations. The agency contemplates issuing a Request for Quote for a firm-fixed-price contract and encourages responses from Small Business, 8(a), HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, and Women-Owned Small Business entities. Interested parties must submit their organization name, Unique Entity Identifier, contact information, business size classification, and a brief statement of relevant past experience by email to Contract Specialist Shannon Wrobel with a courtesy copy to Contracting Officer Laniece Nixon.
Scope of work
- Application of mating disruptants (SPLAT-SM-O) targeting spongy moth populations across 11 states
- Provision of sufficient dispersal systems and equipment to meet required hourly production rates
- Provision of final disruptant formulation (SPLAT) with active ingredient purchased from the government
- Pre-application calibration and characterization trials of dispersal equipment within plus or minus 5 percent
- Conducting reconnaissance of treatment areas and maintaining project communications
- Attendance at mandatory prework meetings with primary crew members prior to application
- Downloading and delivering daily DGPS treatment data files to the COR
- Providing a designated Project Supervisor available to the COR at all times
Minimum qualifications
- Holding appropriate state pesticide applicators license
- Holding appropriate application licenses
- Dispersal system consistently calibrating within plus or minus 5 percent of specified rates
- Dispersal system minimum load capacity of 1,000 acres at 15.2 g ai/ac dose
- Dispersal system equipped with a positive shutoff mechanism to prevent leaking
- Experience of a similar nature, scope, complexity, and difficulty to the requirement
Documents to include with your response
- Company/Organization Name
- Company/Organization UEI
- Point of Contact Name, Phone Number, and Email Address
- Indication of company/organization size classification
- Brief statement addressing work experience of similar nature, scope, complexity, and difficulty
- Manufacturer Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and product labels
- Daily DGPS treatment data files
- Plan of work
How to submit
- Method
- Instructions
- Email responses to Contract Specialist Shannon Wrobel with a courtesy copy to Contracting Officer Laniece Nixon
Contract details
- Term
- Five summer treatment application periods (2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, and 2031)
- Place of performance
- Across 11 states: Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Iowa (IA), Kentucky (KY), North Carolina (NC), Ohio (OH), Minnesota (MN), Tennessee (TN), Virginia (VA), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)
- Insurance and bonding
- Contractor is responsible for obtaining applicable insurance.
- Funding
- National Spongy Moth Slow the Spread program (STS)
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- FY27-0003680
- Agency
- Department of Agriculture
- Buying office
- Forest Service › Usda-FS, CSA East 8
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Responses due
- Nov 19, 2026, 11:59 PM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Nov 4, 2026
- NAICS
- 115310 · Support Activities for Forestry
- Product/service code
- F105
- Place of performance
- Keavy, KY
- Contracting contact
- Shannon Wrobel
shannon.wrobel@usda.gov
Source: SAM.gov. Read the official notice for the complete description and current instructions.
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.
Market context
Awards in the same category (Support Activities for Forestry). This is not this requirement's award history.
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