Sole Source Notification for the Slaughter and Processing of Canada Geese in Colorado

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Wildlife Services (WS), intends to issue a sole source Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Requirements-type contract with a Base Year and 4 Option Years, not-to-exceed $75,000.00 over 5 years, to RC Wildgame Custom Processing located in Fort Collins, CO under the authority of FAR 13.106(b)(1)(i). After an extensive search of local Colorado meat processors on the Front Range, only one processor was found that is willing to do the work. The requirement: The processing facility or facilities shall be a "Custom Processing facilities" permitted and licensed by the Colorado Department of Agriculture to process meat. The processor shall be provided "Guidelines for Slaughter and Processing of Canada Geese for Human Consumption" provided by USDA Wildlife Services for informational purposes. The USDA APHIS WS staff from Colorado shall deliver live Canada Geese to the processing facility from one to five days per week from about June 15 -July 15. The processor shall allow the USDA -WS to deliver the geese during normal business hours Monday through Friday. The geese will be euthanized by the facility. The immediate need is for a processing facility on the Front Range (Interstate 25 corridor), CO, in order to have reasonable travel time in delivering geese to the processing facility and return to Lakewood, CO. The total estimated quantity of goose processing is 1,250 - 2,250 geese per year. An individual processor may be tasked with processing 1,000 - 2,250 geese annually, depending on where geese are captured in proximity to the processing facility. The processor is only required to process goose breast meat, not the entire bird or plucking. Goose meat shall be processed and wrapped. Meat shall be placed in packages weighing about one pound. The packaged meat shall be frozen. Each package of meat shall be marked with the processing plant's name and marked "not for sale." Wildlife Services shall provide a label with its name, address, and migratory bird permit number to be placed on the packaged meat. The label provided by Wildlife Services shall also have a safe handling statement, and steel shot advisory statement. The processor shall be responsible for the disposal of all waste byproducts from the processing of geese. Canada Geese and/or their parts will not be released, transported, or transferred to any other individual or entity. Any parts remaining after processing may not be retained or utilized for any purpose. Interested vendors may identify their interest in a potential IDIQ contract by submitting a 1-2 page capability statement, references from up to three sources for providing the same or similar services, BY EMAIL to the contracting specialist Michael.J.Chiodi@usda.gov before Thursday, June 6, 2019, 3:00 pm, central time. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.