Requests for Proposals

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Current Requests for Proposals and Quotations

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Forestry, Veg. Mgmt, & Restoration

Implementation for the Cabin Creek Project, Tahoe National Forest, California

April 4, 2024

The Cabin Creek Project will improve stand condition by thinning and removing conifers on up to 1,584 acres, with additional service work including mastication, hand thin and pile, thin, grapple pile, and fireline construction, and meadow restoration through conifer removal on 1,951 acres. The project may also include up to 144 acres of fuel reduction through mastication on Placer County lands surrounding the Eastern Regional Landfill.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by April 4, 2024.

Contact:

Dan Alvey, [email protected]

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Recreational Infrastructure

Bear Creek National Recreation Trail Reconstruction, Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests, Colorado

March 22, 2024

The NFF is seeking partners to implement reconstruction of the Bear Creek National Recreation Trail on the Ouray Ranger District. This Request for Proposals is for restoration services related to the reconstruction of Bear Creek National Recreation Trail. The project focuses on constructing new retaining walls, maintaining and restoring failed retaining walls, installing or hardening shallow stream ford and gully crossings, replacing the railings on pedestrian timber trail bridge, and constructing drainage features such as water bars.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by March 22, 2024.

Contact:

Kaily Raley, [email protected]

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Recreational Infrastructure

El Capitan Cabin Spur Road & Parking Design and Construction, Tongass National Forest, Alaska

March 25, 2024

The National Forest Foundation (NFF), in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), is seeking design and construction services for vehicular access to the planned El Capitan public use cabin on the Tongass National Forest. This is a design-build project that involves a qualified designer and contractor to design and construct a USFS-approved gravel spur road and parking lot.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by March 25, 2024.

Contact:

Carolyn Auwaerter, [email protected]

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Forestry, Veg. Mgmt, & Restoration

Kaiser East Restoration Project Decision Memo, Sierra National Forest, California

April 4, 2024

The Contractor shall develop a Final Proposed Action to achieve the Purpose and Need of the Kaiser East Restoration Project that addresses required design features intended to mitigate any significant effects and ensure Forest Plan compliance.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by April 4, 2024.

Contact:

Jack Sieber, [email protected]

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NEW Forestry, Veg. Mgmt, & Restoration

Timberline Wupatki Trails Stewardship, Coconino National Forest, Arizona

April 12, 2024

The Timberline Wupatki Trails Stewardship Integrated Resource Service Contract (IRSC) Project is comprised of ten (10) cutting units, totaling approximately 317 acres of ponderosa pine forest. The objective of this project is to remove dead and dying trees on forest land immediately adjacent to the communities of Timberline and Wupatki Trails, in areas impacted by the Tunnel and Pipeline Fires in 2022.

Timber stand improvement, hauling slash off Forest Service lands, hand thinning & manually removing material from Heritage Sites (20 acres), processing sawlogs to firewood and delivering to tribal communities across Northern Arizona, and construction of three bolstered crossings will be optional work items that may be issued at the discretion of the National Forest Foundation (NFF), in coordination with the Forest Service, pending contractor interest and funding availability.

Pre-Bid Tour

A pre-bid tour will be held on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. While not required, Contractors are encouraged to attend to fully understand the scope of work and complexities associated with this project. If interested in attending, please RSVP to Trevor Seck ([email protected]) no later than Friday March 22, 2024.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by April 12, 2024.

Contact:

Trevor Seck, [email protected]

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NEW Other

Cultural Resource Surveys for Six (6) Project Sites across the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests, Colorado

April 12, 2024

The National Forest Foundation (NFF) and the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests (GMUG NFs) are partnering to conduct National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Section 106 archeological resource inventories and site evaluations for planned vegetation management projects.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by April 12, 2024.

Contact:

Maddie Herro, [email protected]

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NEW Recreational Infrastructure

Blue Pool Accessible Trail and Viewpoint Construction, Willamette National Forest, Oregon

April 19, 2024

The National Forest Foundation (NFF) in coordination with the U.S. Forest Service seeks proposals for the construction of a new accessible trail on the McKenzie River Ranger District of the Willamette National Forest. Contractor will be responsible for constructing 11,615 linear feet of hardened surface trail, with 4 viewpoints consisting of masonry stone walls, to connect a new parking lot and trailhead that will be constructed by the Forest Service to the Blue Pool / Tamolitch Falls area.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by April 19, 2024.

Contact:

Jeff Malik, [email protected]

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NEW Forestry, Veg. Mgmt, & Restoration

Jackknife & Lost Beetle Mastication Thinning & Machine Pile, Flathead National Forest, Montana

April 19, 2024

This project will reduce hazardous fuels and improve forest stand conditions related to species composition and vegetative structure on 329 acres within the wildland urban interface. Most of the work (284 acres Jackknife) is excavator-based mastication thinning. The remaining work (45 acres Lost Beetle) is machine or hand slashing and excavator piling.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by April 19, 2024.

Contact:

Marlee Ostheimer, [email protected]

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NEW Recreational Infrastructure

Iditarod National Historic Trail: Waterfall to Ptarmigan Bridges and Trail Construction, Chugach National Forest, Alaska

April 26, 2024

The Waterfall to Ptarmigan Bridges and Trail Construction Project is for the supply and installation of 2 pre-engineered steel trail bridges, spanning approximately 50 feet across Waterfall Creek and 80 feet across Ptarmigan Creek, and for the construction of approximately 2.8 miles of new trail between these bridges on the Chugach National Forest north of Seward, Alaska. Trail construction methodology will follow a linear grading model where design features are guided by specifications listed in the attached Appendix A, Scope of Work, but final features are determined in the field during construction by the contractor with final approval by the USDA Forest Service (FS) Representative.

This project will continue construction of the Iditarod National Historic Trail (INHT) from Waterfall Creek 2.8 miles north to Ptarmigan Creek.

Deadline:

Responses should be emailed by April 26, 2024.

Contact:

Kenzie Barnwell, [email protected]

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