The Eldorado National Forest is soliciting competitive offers for the Smarty Jones Fuel Reduction Stewardship Project. The Smarty Jones Fuel Reduction Stewardship Project is located within T.13N., R.10.E., and 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 Thursday, August 9, 2007 for an estimated 11,560 Tons (1,678 M board feet) of sawtimber marked or otherwise designated for cutting on 778 acres and 3 mandatory and 2 optional stewardship projects. Mandatory Stewardship projects are: small tree thinning and removal on 558 acres, and brush cutting of 503 acres and machine piling of 7 acres. Optional Stewardship projects are small tree thining and brush cutting of 166 acres and machine piling of 227 acres. Contract contains Specified Roads with an estimated public works construction cost of$101,287.00 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. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or part of an individual?s income is derived from any public assistance program. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA's TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD). To file a complaint of discrimination, write to USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410, or call (800) 795-3272 (voice) or (202) 720-6382 (TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

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