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
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
 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
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Trail maintenance
Prescribed fire
Restoration of habitat
Watershed restoration
and maintenance
 Eradication of noxious
weeds
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
FSH 2409.19,
Chapter 60
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
 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
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
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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
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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
Stewardship Contracting Refresher
 Bundle project wisely – keep it simple
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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.
Group exercise
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?