Fair Fuels Stewardship

The Arapaho Roosevelt National Forest, Sulphur Ranger District, is holding a pre-solicitation meeting to discuss the upcoming Stewardship Project area known as the Fair IRSC. This pre-solicitation will also include a walk-through of the stewardship site area to answer and clarify information from the attached documents. Date of Pre-Solicitation Meeting: October 30, 2017, 0900 Mountain Time Location: Sulphur Ranger District, 9 Ten Mile Drive, Granby CO 80446 The Fair Fuels Stewardship Project is located on the Sulphur Ranger District of the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest, encompassing the area indicated on the Contract Area Map and is within the Upper Colorado Forest Health and Fuels Reduction Environmental Analysis area. Restoration objectives for the project area are summarized as follows: - To provide defensible space around private land and improvements adjacent to National Forest Lands. - To reduce hazardous fuels and facilitate more effective firefighting opportunities to maximize the potential for wildfire control and structure protection in a Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). - Reduce canopy density and crown fire potential. - To implement hazardous fuels reduction and hazard tree mitigation activities on federal lands adjacent to private land. To accomplish these objectives, the contract includes the following components: mechanized removal of Sawtimber and Non-sawtimber, manual fuels modification, hand piling and cover slash from manual fuels modification. (b) Resulting Contract - Any resultant contract will be a commercial services contract with requirements for timber removal. (c) Project Location - Project is located in Township 1 North, Range 75 West, Sections 8, 16, and 17; 6th principal meridian, Grand County, Colorado. FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION PLEASE RSVP WITH THE CONTRACTING OFFICER STAR M YEO AT starmyeo@fs.fed.us