stewardship contracting refresher

Stewardship Contracting

Refresher

Overall goal: Student will understand and apply the concepts associated with contracting authority.

Stewardship Contracting Refresher

One contract Project completed in less

time More service work

performed Increased public support Reduction of potential

adverse environmental impacts

Reduced costs per acre for service work


Omnibus Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2003

Used successfully in Forest Service

Supports Healthy Forests Initiative

Regional Forester approval

Collaborate outside of traditional NEPA contacts.

Education is key Understand the contract,

solicitation process, financial accounting

Educate contractors through workshops and field trips and gain their support.


Exchange goods for service Retention of Retained

Receipts Reduce reliance on WFHF

dollars Other appropriated money

Retention of KV Receipts


Designation by Description (DxD)

Designation by Prescription (DxP)

Best Value contract award Multi-year contracts Less than full and open

competition Non-USDA administration of

timber sales


Trail maintenance Prescribed fire Restoration of habitat Watershed restoration

and maintenance Eradication of noxious

weeds



FSH 2409.19,Chapter 60

Does a Stewardship Proposal require Regional Forester approval?


Where do retained receipts come from?

How can they be used in a stewardship project?


Which of the following are special authorities pertaining to stewardship contracting? Best Value award Logging and service work

combined Less competition Involve large companies Promote community

involvement


Integrated Resource Timber Contract (IRTC)

Integrated Resource Service Contract (IRSC)



Solicitation Schedule of service work

items Service work

specifications Forest Product values

and volumes Best Value process

Earned Applied Timing Uses

Stumpage value


Stumpage value must be covered in advance of cutting by cash, bond or earned stewardship credits.

True or False?


Advertisement Federal Business

Opportunities (FBO) Newspapers

Prospectus IRSC – None IRTC – Available

upon request


Proposal Technical proposal Small business Offer disposition


IRTC Bid Form for timber Technical proposal

IRSC Technical proposal Price Proposal for

Forest Products


Which of the following are benefits of Best Value Offer and Award? Allows evaluation on a

contractor’s past performance Offers opened publicly Cannot negotiate after

opening


Which of the following is the contractor’s submission method for an IRTC Stewardship contract? Solicitation Technical proposal Bid form



Work item considerations: Proximity to harvest

units No construction or

reconstruction work Except Specified Road

Work Contractor expertise


Work items: Roads used for log haul Roads not used for log

haul Widely distributed Goods for service Cash payments

Bundle project wisely – keep it simple Who are contractors? What kind of equipment do they have? How familiar are they with the work? Avoid the strange and exotic

Write clear specifications Uncertainty = higher prices

Group similar cost treatments/units as pay items Avoid mixing high cost and low cost units in

one bid item Accounting is critical – know how to

manipulate spreadsheets


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The Flatland District of the Kansas National Forest has 3,000 acres of predominantly heavy mid-story undergrowth with an opportunity to do a commercial timber harvest adjacent to, but not within, these acres. A commercial entity is interested in grinding up the mid-story undergrowth into chips for a local biomass market for hog-fuel (power generation at a mill). The purchaser is not interested in the commercial timber but it could be included in a single stewardship proposal to the Regional Forester because it has some opportunities for eliminating a bad privet invasion problem scattered on acres next to the harvest units.Assume all of this work is going into one stewardship Project Proposal to the Regional Forester. What special authorities need to be requested in the proposal? What types of contracts might be used?

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