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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
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
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.
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
Exchange goods for service Retention of Retained
Receipts Reduce reliance on WFHF
dollars Other appropriated money
Retention of KV Receipts
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
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
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
Trail maintenance Prescribed fire Restoration of habitat Watershed restoration
and maintenance Eradication of noxious
weeds
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
FSH 2409.19,
Chapter 60
Does a Stewardship Proposal require Regional Forester approval?
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
Where do retained receipts come from?
How can they be used in a stewardship project?
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
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
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
Integrated Resource Timber Contract (IRTC)
Integrated Resource Service Contract (IRSC)
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Stewardship Contracting Refresher
Solicitation Schedule of service work
items Service work
specifications Forest Product values
and volumes Best Value process
Earned Applied Timing Uses
Stumpage value
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Stumpage value must be covered in advance of cutting by cash, bond or earned stewardship credits.
True or False?
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
Advertisement Federal Business
Opportunities (FBO) Newspapers
Prospectus IRSC – None IRTC – Available
upon request
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Proposal Technical proposal Small business Offer disposition
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
IRTC Bid Form for timber Technical proposal
IRSC Technical proposal Price Proposal for
Forest Products
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
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
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
Which of the following is the contractor’s submission method for an IRTC Stewardship contract? Solicitation Technical proposal Bid form
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Work item considerations: Proximity to harvest
units No construction or
reconstruction work Except Specified Road
Work Contractor expertise
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
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
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
This is the end of this section.
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
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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