Stewardship Contracting Refresher Overall goal: Student will understand and apply the concepts associated with contracting authority.

Stewardship Contracting Refresher  One contract  Project completed in less time  More service work performed  Increased public support  Reduction of potential adverse environmental impacts  Reduced costs per acre for service work

Stewardship Contracting Refresher  Omnibus Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2003  Used successfully in Forest Service  Supports Healthy Forests Initiative  Regional Forester approval

  Collaborate outside of traditional NEPA contacts.   Education is key   Understand the contract, solicitation process, financial accounting   Educate contractors through workshops and field trips and gain their support. Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Exchange goods for service   Retention of Retained Receipts   Reduce reliance on WFHF dollars   Other appropriated money   Retention of KV Receipts Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Designation by Description (DxD)   Designation by Prescription (DxP)   Best Value contract award   Multi-year contracts   Less than full and open competition   Non-USDA administration of timber sales Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Trail maintenance   Prescribed fire   Restoration of habitat   Watershed restoration and maintenance   Eradication of noxious weeds Stewardship Contracting Refresher

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  Does a Stewardship Proposal require Regional Forester approval? Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Where do retained receipts come from?   How can they be used in a stewardship project? Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Which of the following are special authorities pertaining to stewardship contracting?   Best Value award   Logging and service work combined   Less competition   Involve large companies   Promote community involvement Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Integrated Resource Timber Contract (IRTC)   Integrated Resource Service Contract (IRSC) Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Solicitation   Schedule of service work items   Service work specifications   Forest Product values and volumes   Best Value process

  Earned   Applied   Timing   Uses   Stumpage value Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Stumpage value must be covered in advance of cutting by cash, bond or earned stewardship credits. True or False? Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Advertisement   Federal Business Opportunities (FBO)   Newspapers   Prospectus   IRSC – None   IRTC – Available upon request Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Proposal   Technical proposal   Small business   Offer disposition Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  IRTC   Bid Form for timber   Technical proposal   IRSC   Technical proposal   Price Proposal for Forest Products Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Which of the following are benefits of Best Value Offer and Award?   Allows evaluation on a contractor’s past performance   Offers opened publicly   Cannot negotiate after opening Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Which of the following is the contractor’s submission method for an IRTC Stewardship contract?   Solicitation   Technical proposal   Bid form Stewardship Contracting Refresher

  Work item considerations:   Proximity to harvest units   No construction or reconstruction work   Except Specified Road Work   Contractor expertise

Stewardship Contracting Refresher   Work items:   Roads used for log haul   Roads not used for log haul   Widely distributed   Goods for service   Cash payments

  Bundle project wisely – keep it simple   Who are contractors?   What kind of equipment do they have?   How familiar are they with the work?   Avoid the strange and exotic   Write clear specifications   Uncertainty = higher prices   Group similar cost treatments/units as pay items   Avoid mixing high cost and low cost units in one bid item   Accounting is critical – know how to manipulate spreadsheets Stewardship Contracting Refresher

This is the end of this section. Stewardship Contracting Refresher The Flatland District of the Kansas National Forest has 3,000 acres of predominantly heavy mid-story undergrowth with an opportunity to do a commercial timber harvest adjacent to, but not within, these acres. A commercial entity is interested in grinding up the mid-story undergrowth into chips for a local biomass market for hog-fuel (power generation at a mill). The purchaser is not interested in the commercial timber but it could be included in a single stewardship proposal to the Regional Forester because it has some opportunities for eliminating a bad privet invasion problem scattered on acres next to the harvest units. Assume all of this work is going into one stewardship Project Proposal to the Regional Forester. What special authorities need to be requested in the proposal? What types of contracts might be used? Group exercise