Pre-solicitationPosted Jul 30, 2025·Responses due Aug 23, 2025

Middle Fork Wildlife Tree and Down Creation

Forest Service · WILLAMETTE NATIONAL FOREST

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
115310
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
1240BK25Q0071
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
F018
Place
Westfir, OR, USA
Contact
Jared D Machgan (jared.machgan@usda.gov)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 1240BK25Q0071 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jul 29, 2025
    Pre-solicitation
    Open
  • Jul 30, 2025 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
  • Jul 30, 2025
    Pre-solicitation
    Open
  • Aug 5, 2025
    Pre-solicitation
    Open
Solicitation
  • Aug 5, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Aug 5, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Aug 20, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
Award
  • Sep 12, 2025
    Award Notice
    WARNER CREEK CO Westfir OR USA · $158K
    Open

Next steps for this stage

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  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

Pre-Solicitation Solicitation number is 1240BK25Q0071 and is issue as a Request for Quotation (RFQ) to establish a Firm-Fixed-Price contract. This procurement is a Total Small Business Set-Aside. In accordance with FAR Clause 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside. Offers are solicited only from small business concerns. Offers received from concerns that are not small business concerns shall be considered nonresponsive and will be rejected. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement 115310 Support Activities for Forestry The sma… (show all)

ll business size standard is $11 million. Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) Structure: Refer to Schedule of Items and Price Sheet (RFQ 1240BK25Q0071 pdf). Description of Requirement: Services will include the creation of structures suitable for cavity nesting wildlife. The Government shall neither supervise Contractor employees nor control the method by which the Contractor performs the required tasks. Under no circumstances shall the Government assign tasks to, or prepare work schedules for, individual Contractor employees. as described in RFQ 1240BK25Q0071 pdf. A site visit has not been scheduled for this requirement. Offerors are however encouraged to conduct their own research into the area, this research is at the offerors own expense and is not reimbursable by the government. Questions concerning this solicitation shall be submitted electronically via email to Deborah.Hill@usda.gov and Jared.Machgant@usda.gov no later than Friday, August 15, 2025 at 17:00 PM PT Time Answers to offerors questions will be posted in SAM.gov no later than Friday, August 22, 2025 at 17:00 PM PT Time All amendments to the solicitation will be posted in SAM.gov. Offers shall be submitted electronically via email to Jared.Machgan@usda.gov and no later than Friday, Friday, August 22, at 17:00 PM PT Time. Offerors shall ensure offers are delivered into this inbox by the due date and time. Emails should contain 3 separate attachments: Technical Capability (in Microsoft Word or PDF format), Past Performance (in PDF format), and Price (in Microsoft Excel format). Be aware that large attachments may increase the time required to deliver an email. It is the offerors responsibility to confirm receipt of the offer. System for Award Management � Notice to Offerors #1: System updates may lag policy updates. The System for Award Management (SAM) may continue to require entities to complete representations based on provisions that are not included in agency solicitations, including 52.223-22, Public Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Reduction Goals�Representation, and paragraph (t) of 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications�Commercial Products and Commercial Services. Agencies will not consider or use these representations. Entities are not required to, nor are they able to, update their entity registration to remove these representations in SAM. System for Award Management � Notice to Offerors #2: System updates may lag policy updates. The System for Award Management (SAM) may continue to require entities to complete representations based on provisions that are not included in agency solicitations. Examples include 52.222-25, Affirmative Action Compliance, and paragraph (d) of 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications�Commercial Products and Commercial Services. Contracting officers will not consider these representations when making award decisions or enforce requirements. Entities are not required to, nor are they able to, update their entity registration to remove these representations in SAM. Primary Contracting Officer Jared Machgan Jared.Machgan@usda.gov Solicitaiton package will be posted on 8/6/2025 Attachments: 1. RFQ 1240BK25Q0071 Middle Fork Ranger District Wildlife Tree and Down Wood Creation 2. Exhibit 6 Tree Illustrations for Girdling 3. Exhibit 9 Sample Tree Registers 4. DUIS 5. Unit Map 6. Wage Rates

Who won similar work

6 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (WILLAMETTE NATIONAL FOREST), same product/service code (PSC) F018.

Single-winner award sizes (6): middle half $50K to $207K, median $59K; range $30K to $911K.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
GRANITE COMMERCIAL SERVICE LLC2$103KSep 26, 2025
BRINK BROTHERS INC.1$911KSep 23, 2025
BEST SEPTIC, INC1$254KJun 25, 2025
PROJECT RAM INNOVATIONS LLC1$63KSep 30, 2025
D & I Excavating Inc.1$30KMar 27, 2025

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 5 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied U.S. Forest Service since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past U.S. Forest Service job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 15 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 0 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.