How to bid on Crooks Park cut and pile work for BLM White River Field Office

What BLM is buying

The Bureau of Land Management’s White River Field Office is seeking a small business to manually cut and pile standing and downed trees, seedlings, saplings, brush, and excess slash across about 25 acres at Crooks Park, about 20 miles east of Meeker, Colorado. The work is for fuels reduction.

The RFQ is a total small-business set-aside. BLM plans to award a firm fixed-price contract using lowest price technically acceptable evaluation. The work period is July 16 through November 15, 2027.

Key dates and the quote deadline

Questions are due by October 23, 2026, at 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time. Quotes are due by October 30, 2026, at 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time. The listing also gives the deadline as 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

Submit your quote by email before the deadline. Late quotes will not be considered.

Who this opportunity suits

This opportunity suits small businesses with the capability and capacity to perform manual forest fuels-reduction work. The listed category is NAICS 115310, Support Activities for Forestry—Fuels Management, Exception 2; the listed product service code is F014, Natural Resources/Conservation—Tree Thinning.

Vendors must have satisfactory past performance and be active and registered in SAM.gov when they submit a quote and at potential award.

How to access the bid and respond

Use “View original source” on the opportunity page. If the first click opens the portal homepage, click the link again to go to the bid. A free account may be needed to view documents, though some bids can be viewed without one.

Review the Statement of Work, project maps, shape files, and Amendment 1, which updates the SOW by removing a reference to pinyon and juniper and adds a Q&A part 1 document. Submit questions by email to Contracting Officer David Farina by the stated question deadline. Email your quote to David Farina at [email protected] by the quote deadline.

Include a technical capability statement of no more than five pages, relevant experience covering two projects completed or ongoing by the prime in the past five years, and pricing. Include your UEI and CAGE code.

Prepare a clear, competitive quote

Use the SOW and project files to explain how your firm will meet the work requirements and show that it has the capacity to complete the work during the stated period. Keep the technical capability section within the five-page limit.

Choose two relevant projects from the past five years and clearly state your firm’s role and the work performed. Check that your pricing is complete and consistent with the requested work, and verify that your SAM.gov registration is active before submitting.