The Eldorado National Forest is soliciting competitive offers for the Quintette Fuel Reduction Stewardship Project. The Quintette Fuel Reduction Stewardship Project is located within T.11N., R.11.E., T11N., R12E., T12N., R11E., T12N., R12E., T13N., R11E., M.D.B.&M. Sealed ? ?Best Value? offers will be received at the Forest Supervisor's Office at 2:00 P.M. local time on Monday, September 24, 2007 for an estimated 80,504 Tons (11,994 M board feet) of sawtimber marked or otherwise designated for cutting on 3,248 acres and 1 mandatory and 2 optional stewardship projects. Mandatory Stewardship projects are: small tree thinning and removal on 1007 acres. Optional Stewardship projects are small tree thinning and removal on 2241 acres, and brush cutting and machine piling on 3248 acres. Contract contains Specified Roads with an estimated public works construction cost of $897,000 plus desposits for Road Reconstruction Engineering. Bidders qualifying as "Small Business concerns" under the Small Business Act, may elect when submitting an offer, for the Forest Service to build permanent roads. Additional information concerning this option is in the prospectus. The Forest Service will evaluate competitive offers submitted by offerors who present a price offer and technical proposal according to the information found under the section in the offer titled ?Instructions to Offerors.? Evaluation factors for this project are organizational experience, organizational past performance, local community economic enhancement (including small business enhancement), understanding the Government?s requirements, and price. One award will be made to the offeror whose proposal is technically acceptable and whose technical/price relationship is the ?best value? to the Government. The Forest Service reserves the right to reject any and all offers. A prospectus is available to the public and interested offerors from the offices listed below. Information concerning the timber and stewardship projects specific to this project, and submission of offers is available to the public from the District Ranger, Georgetown Ranger District, 7600 Wentworth Springs Road, Georgetown, CA 95634 or the Forest Supervisor, 100 Forni Road, Placerville, California 95667.

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