The USDA Forest Service, Chippewa National Forest in Cass Lake Minnesota is requesting pricing for Tree Seedlings for the FY2015 spring planting season.  All conifer seedlings will be from seed collected in the North Central seed zone 104 of Minnesota, which includes Beltrami, Cass and Itasca counties.  All conifer stock must be 3-0.  All conifer stock must be graded.  All trees must be root pruned prior to packaging.  The Chippewa National Forest will arrange shipping of the trees.

The quantities will be as follows:

Jack Pine                37,500

White Spruce          65,000

Tamarack               20,000

Northern Red Oak     4,000

Northern White Oak  5,000

Black Spruce          42,000

Anticipated delivery date of April 20, 2015.

PLEASE NOTE:  THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION.  PLEASE PROVIDE PRICING IN RESPONSE TO THIS NOTICE BY THE RESPONSE DATE LISTED ABOVE.

All suppliers are required to be in compliance with the Debt Improvement Act of 1996 and shall be registered in the Systems for Awards Management (SAM).  Instructions regarding the registration proess can be found at https://www.sam.gov.  It is also required that all suppliers be registered in the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) located at the same address.

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