(Salt Lake City, UT) - The Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish & Wildlife Service, and U.S. Forest Service plan to issue multiple contracts for a wide range of fuels management reduction work to reduce the risk of wildland fires. To help potential contractors understand this solicitation, pre-bid workshops have been scheduled.

The services in these contracts are designed to provide for wildfire hazard reduction, prescribed burning, and related services. This contract may require vegetation manipulation, burn unit preparation, and prescribed burning. This may include furnishing labor, supervision, transportation, operating supplies, and incidentals to perform all work necessary to conduct slashing, girdling, lop and scatter, thinning, selective slashing, pruning, fuel modification zone construction, hand piling and cover, fire line construction and maintenance, fuels removal, snag felling, roadblock

removal/restoration, mastication, chipping, crushing, chaining, herbicide application, and seeding.

Hazardous fuel reduction treatments and related services within this contract may occur throughout the United States. This is a 100% Small Business Set-Aside opportunity.

Solicitation Number L12PS00465 for this Request for Proposals will close on November 1 2012. From www.fedconnect.net interested parties can access the solicitation by clicking "search public opportunities," change search criteria to "reference number," type in the solicitation number (L12PS00465) and click "search." Contracts must be registered at www.SAM.gov to be considered eligible for award.

Workshops are scheduled October 17, 2012 @ 3:00 pm and 22 October 2012 @ 7:00 pm at these locations:

Utah State Office – 440 W 200 S, Salt Lake City

West Desert District – 2370 S 2300 W, Salt Lake City

Color Country District – 176 East DL Sargent Drive, Cedar City

Green River District – 100 S 420 E, Vernal - VTC

Canyon Country District - 82 East Dogwood, Moab - VTC

Please contact Sam Wimmer, Procurement Analyst at 801.539.4177 or sswimmer@blm.gov with any questions.