Bush Clearing

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W0134-13-CYKS Bush Clearing

Requirement: The Department of National Defence, Cold Lake, Alberta has a requirement for a Standing Offer for the supply of all labour, materials, tools, equipment, transportation and supervision necessary to provide bush clearing services at 4 Wing, Cold Lake and Primrose Lake Evaluation Range (PLER).

The areas are very diverse and consist of bogs that are only accessible in winter, areas that have previously been cleared and have some scrubs that have grown up and areas with mature trees. Clearing consists of cutting of trees and brush vegetative growth to not more than specified height above ground and disposing of felled trees, previously uprooted trees, stumps and surface debris. Close-cut clearing consists of cutting off standing trees, brush, scrub, roots, stumps and embedded logs, removing at or close to existing grade and disposing of fallen timber and surface debris. Underbrush clearing consists of removal from treed areas of undergrowth, deadwood and trees smaller than a 50 mm trunk diameter and disposing of fallen timber and surface debris.

Merchantable Timber Stand volume is >50 m3/ ha. Merchantable tree >15 cm stump diameter/11 cm top diameter/ 14 m height.

A Local Timber Permit (LTP) or any other permit that is required to be purchased to pay timber dues for the salvaged timber will be purchased by the Project Authority. This permit has to be purchased before any material is hauled off site.

There is a security requirement associated with this requirement. For additional information, consult Part 6 - Security, Financial and Insurance Requirements, and Part 7A - Standing Offer. Offerors should consult the "Security Requirements for PWGSC Bid Solicitations - Instructions for Bidders" (http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/app-acq/lc-pl/lc-pl-eng.html#a31) document on the Departmental Standard Procurement Documents Web site.

Offerors must submit a list of names , or other related information as needed, pursuant to section 01 of Standard Instructions 2006 and 2007.

For services requirements, Offerors in receipt of a pension or a lump sum payment must provide the required information as detailed in article 3 of Part 2 of the Request for Standing Offers (RFSO).

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