Opportunity Description: PL26TAS6100 ? Tree Planting 2025 in the Lakes Operating Area of BC Timber Sales ? Babine Business Area

The proposed contract PL26TAS6100 requires work services for spring tree planting in the Lakes Operating Area of BC Timber Sales – Babine Business Area which consists of both straight plants and fill/under plants. Planting density will range from 2000 s/ha or 1800 s/ha for most of the blocks, the fill plant blocks and a couple blocks with higher density of Pli naturals are planned for 1200-1400 s/ha.

Total tree allocation for the 2024 Lakes planting is estimated at 1,217,640 spring seedlings, more or less, on ~700 hectares within 13 blocks.

Project is to be completed no later than June 21, 2025, as per the approved work progress plan and schedules.

Approximately 98,588 of the seedlings are expected to be I-Wrap Larch.

If teabags are available, 750,000 of the seedlings will be planted with a teabag fertilizer.  Fertilizer tea bags will be available at the Nadina Resource District’s Ministry of Forests location in Burns Lake, and it is the expectation that the contractor will coordinate pick-up and transportation to the field of the required teabags during business hours from this location.  Fertilizer tea bags will be provided to the Contractor at no charge, but transportation to the planting units, and storage on-site will be the responsibility of the Contractor.  It is expected that the Contractor’s total bid price will include a) the cost of planting the seedlings, and b) the cost for including the tea-bag (refer to Sch B, Additional Costing table).  Tea bags to be planted in the same hole as the seedling plug.

See the Schedule A Services document for specific works required.

Questions & Answers
All contract related questions must be submitted in writing ONLY to the following email address: Forests.BabineTimberSalesOffice@gov.bc.ca.
Deadline for receiving questions is 3:00 pm on October 22, 2024 .
If questions are received , a Question & Answer document will be posted to BC Bid by 4pm October 23, 2024 .

Tender submissions must be submitted in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in the tender package.

If your bid deposit is in the form of cash, money order, certified cheque or bank draft, you will not be able to e-bid. See allowable submission delivery method(s) above. Also see Conditions of Tender for acceptable bid securities.

The lowest priced or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

The Planting Contractor Rating System is NOT being used for this contract.

Be aware that BCTS has made changes to its EMS and SFM programs to meet the updated 2022 Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Forest Management Standard. Changes impacting BCTS clients include new training requirements (Table 008-1, 008-1A, Tailgate Training, SFI Awareness documents, and new Indigenous rights awareness training, as well as changes to training frequency and a new continuing education component). In addition, note changes to EMS/SFM Environmental Field Procedures and Incident Reporting Procedures which occurred June 1, 2022.

Supervisors and workers will need to be familiar with these changes prior to commencement of operations. These documents are posted on our external EMS/SFM website at BC Timber Sales - Business Area Environmental Management System (EMS) and Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) - Province of British Columbia ( https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/forestry/bc-timber-sales/forest-certification/ems-sfm ).  More information on SFI available at www.forests.org .

Unverified bid results will be posted to BC Bid after tender opening and once awarded the contract award results will be available on BC Bid.

Please see the following website for
important BCTS Contracting advisory notices and guidance information:
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/forestry/bc-timber-sales/contracting

Timber Sales Manager
Babine Business Area
BC Timber Sales