NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE

The Bureau of Land Management, Utah State Office, intends to award a firm-fixed price sole-source purchase order to the Upper Colorado Environmental Plant Center (UCEPC) in Meeker, Colorado. The overall project will be for maintenance, restoration, and rehabilitation of rangeland, areas disturbed by development, and high elevation ecosystems and habitats. This will be accomplished by evaluating, testing, and increasing native plant materials for release to commercial growers to produce. The project to maintain and study an evaluation trial of 80 separate accessions of forbs is ongoing, and documentation must be submitted periodically throughout the year. This action is under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. The anticipated award date is 08/30/2018. Please note that this is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all interested parties who believe they can meet the requirements are invited to submit, in writing, complete information describing their ability to provide the services listed above. Deadline date for the submittal is 08/29/2018 at 1:00 PM Mountain Daylight Time. A determination by the government not to compete this requirement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. For information regarding this notice, please contact Vicki Meier at [email protected].