Region 6 forest service fire procurement NWSA Conference February 17, 2015 Region 6 forest service fire procurement

FACT Personnel Supervisory Contract Specialist Contracting Officers Ben McGrane Program Lead , Aviation, Federal CO on IFCA Contracting Officers Jeanne Williams Heavy Equipment, Fuel Tenders, Fallers, Misc. Heavy Equipment, Heavy Equipment w/Water, Weed Wash, Reefer Trailers, Vehicle w/drivers Kermadine Barton Mechanic with Service Truck, Potable/Gray Water Trucks/Trailer mounted Handwash, Chippers, Water Handling, Mobile Laundry Units Purchasing Agent Jan Drum Supports Redmond Air Center, Cache, Training, Aviation program. Procurement Technician Juanita Dickson Non-VIPR Resources http://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/r6/workingtogether/contracting/fact

2015 Regional Solicitations Misc. Heavy Equipment Feller/Buncher, Mulcher/Masticator, Road Grader, Skidder Potable/gray water truck/trailer mounted hand wash stations Chippers Mobile laundry unit Vehicles with Drivers (1 year only) Note 1 – All are currently open in FedBizOpps Note 2 – All rollover modifications are open.

Region 6 Contract Operations

Contract Operations Staff Katie Mergel - Supervisory Contract Operations Specialist Administration & Oversight of program Liaison with FAM, Contracting, Contractors and State Partners Administer MOUs Training Records Verification

Contract Operations Staff Ron George – Contract Operations Specialist Equipment Specialist Administration of the Equipment MOUs Quality Assurance of Inspectors ICPI Coordination/Training Member of Contract Equipment Task Team (CETT) Provides input on Agreement specifications

Contract Operations Staff Tony Largaespada – Contract Operations Assistant Training/WCFT Notifications Training/WCFT Monitoring

Training MOUs We have 7 MOUs with Fire Associations in the Pacific NW We have 11 Public Training Providers (Colleges) in Oregon and 13 in Washington. The Public Training Provider MOUs are currently being reviewed for renewal.

Records Verification MOUs Currently we have 5 Companies that are providing services for verifications. We require records verification for any employee who requires training beyond RT-130. 3,500 records verified by MOU companies last season.

Equipment Inspection MOUs Started small in 2014 to make sure that our processes were in place, inspected 70 pieces of equipment. Recently added 4 additional providers for a total of 8. In 2015 we will be inspecting: Misc. Logging equipment, Potable/Gray Water Trucks, Trailer Mounted Handwash for approximately 400 pieces of equipment.

Equipment Utilization Fire Season 2014 Resource Orders Filled: 3,371 for a total of 32,798 days Type 3, 4, 5, 6 Engines had 1,731 orders for 15,048 days Interagency Fire Crews had 714 orders for 5,545 days on 125 incidents. Region 6 has 757 Vendors with 2,438 pieces of equipment including fallers.

Incident Contract Project Inspectors We are continuing to increase our capacity in the ICPI program. We are providing coordination and oversight to the ICPI Program. Increased communications via email and conference calls throughout the summer Training and Refreshers Equipment Inspection Workshop

Collaboration We continue to build relationships with our State/Federal partners in an effort to increase efficiencies Vendor Road Show Vendor Issue Form Recommendations, Issues, etc. Posted to FACT website

GACC Collaboration Pacific NW Contract Equipment Task Group Goals Tasked by Incident Business Committee Interagency participation Goals Coordinate ordering & hiring protocols for agencies and their contracts/agreements Clarify when VIPR resources should be ordered, State Agreements, etc. Develop incident inspection standards and ICPI coordination on inter-agency level.

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