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Forest Service Hand Thinning, MATOC North Rockies/Great Basin

USDA-FS, CSA INTERMOUNTAIN 3 · Missoula, Montana, 59804

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Response status

Due in 11 days

Nov 19, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC

Responses remain open.

Posted
Oct 19, 2026
Archive date
Dec 4, 2026
SAM status
Active

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • USDA-FS, CSA INTERMOUNTAIN 3 published this sources sought.
  • Competition is listed as No Set aside used.
  • The place of performance is Missoula, Montana.
  • The notice uses NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
d141b64c62d746f986ec61e80929b9a3
Solicitation
1176101
Base type
Sources Sought
Version
1 of 1

Solicitation facts

Structured fields from the current SAM notice version. A dash means the source did not publish a value.

Notice type
Sources Sought
Solicitation number
1176101
NAICS
115310 — Support Activities for Forestry
PSC
F114 — ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS PROTECTION- ENVIRONMENTAL LICENSING AND PERMITTING
Set-aside
No Set aside used
Set-aside code
—
Posted
Oct 19, 2026
Responses due
Nov 19, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Dec 4, 2026
Archive type
auto15
Base type
Sources Sought
Organization type
OFFICE
Benchmark category
—
Category confidence
—
Category source
—
Last seen
Oct 21, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
Department code
—
Subagency
Forest Service
Subagency code
—
Office
USDA-FS, CSA INTERMOUNTAIN 3
Organization path
—
Organization path codes
—
Office address
Ogden, UT, 844012310, USA
Place of performance
Missoula, Montana, 59804
City code
—
State
Montana
State code
MT
Postal code
59804
Country
—

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

Requirement includes a wide variety of non-merchantable vegetation management activities for the purpose of fuels reduction, prescribed burn unit preparation, stand improvement, or unit rehabilitation. Activities could include, but are not limited to, tree thinning, slashing, girdling, pruning, weed and release, release of browse species, slash treatment, hand piling, fuel break construction, Fireline construction, residual tree protection, duff mound removal, unit preparation work, rehabilitation, chipping and related services. Unit boundary/special protection area designation and/or traversing for or within these units may also be included in the activity.

Comparable award range

Historical award values for work matched by the fixed rubric—not an estimate of this opportunity.

Low end (p25)$109,600
Median$114,567
High end (p75)$119,533
Comparable awards
2
Median
$114,567
Computed
Nov 6, 2026
Rubric
comparables@2026.08.1
Comparable award values describe completed contracts. They do not state the government's budget and are not a bid recommendation.

Comparable awards

The match score is decomposed so each comparison can be challenged.

AwardContractorValueAwardedScoreWhy it matched
WESTSIDE INVASIVES, CUSTER GALLATIN NATIONAL FORESTMONTURE CREEK LAND MANAGEMENT, INC.$104,633.95Sep 25, 202647Same industry code (20), Same product and service code (12), Same place of performance (8), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
MT - PABLO NWR - EURASIAN WATERMILFOIL HERBICIDE APPLICATION (FY 26) - BPA CALLWESTERN WEED CONTROL LLC$124,500.00Sep 15, 202647Same industry code (20), Same product and service code (12), Same place of performance (8), Recent enough to be relevant (7)

Record provenance

Field-level lineage for the current opportunity version.

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Sources and method

Figures on this page are computed from public federal award records. Numbers are never estimated or generated; where a figure is withheld, the reason is stated rather than filled in.

Comparable awards are scored on benchmark category, product and service code, industry code, buyer, place, recency, and contract type. Rubric version comparables@2026.08.1.

  1. 1Notice fields come from the SAM.gov contract opportunities record last seen Oct 21, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.
  2. 2Computed from 2 completed federal awards using comparables@2026.08.1, as of Nov 6, 2026. Award values are neither unit prices nor a forecast.
  3. 3Only 2 comparable awards were found. The range describes those records, not the market.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record; note 2 covers the comparable range; note 3 describes sample size. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.