This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Atlanta, Georgia. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

The Forest Service stewards a vast portfolio of infrastructure and capital assets throughout the Nation and some U.S. territories. This infrastructure is crucial to the work of caring for the land and serving people, provides valuable access to services and recreational opportunities enjoyed every day by the public, and contributes significantly to local economies across an array of industries and business sectors. In 2020 the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) was enacted into law; providing permanent, full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund and establishing the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund. These two programs, with broad bipartisan support, will provide critical funding to invest in our national forests and other public lands long into the future. GAOA's Restoration Fund targets Federal land management agencies' deferred maintenance backlog, providing up to $285 million annually to the Forest Service through 09/2025. With these funds, the Forest Service expects to achieve substantial reductions in its $5.9 billion deferred maintenance backlog. These projects will enhance public access and the quality of the visitor experience, restore public lands for current and future generations, and generate significant economic opportunity and jobs-creation within local communities. The agency has established a goal of 98% of these funds/projects to be obligated to Small Businesses. GAOA gave the USDA Forest Service new opportunities to deliver benefits to the American public through major investments in recreation infrastructure, public lands access, and land and water conservation. These investments will enable communities to Build Back Better by contributing to economic growth and job creation in rural America. We are currently in the second year of five, where the agency has received additional funds to address the deferred maintenance backlog which has been growing for several decades. To increase internal capacity needed to handle this additional funding, the Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service collaborated with the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service to award many high-value Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts with the following in-scope work: Alterations, Repairs, and new construction on civil projects (roads/bridges/etc.), mechanical and electrical projects, and building projects. IDIQ contracts allow the placement of orders for an undetermined amount of projects up to a specified dollar value (known as the ceiling value) during the 5 year ordering period. The Forest Service plans to utilize these IDIQ contracts to meet the increased mission needs in an expedited timeframe, since additional synopsis timelines are not required. Categories of work and the anticipated trades associated with bridges, buildings, communication systems, dams, heritage, miscellaneous recreation features, roads, trails, trail bridges, wastewater, and water projects. The PSC and NAICS codes used above are examples, and not all-inclusive of the projects being procured. The purpose of this seminar will be to provide interested vendors with contact information for these IDIQ contract holders, and to provide the IDIQ contract holders with pertinent information on interested vendors to help them determine capability gaps in rural areas, and which companies may be available for subcontracting opportunities in these areas. Vendors are encouraged to update their capabilities statements for sharing with these contract holders, or to contact their servicing Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) for assistance in readying this type of marketing material. Please see the attached informational flyer for additional information and event registration if interested. The method of contractor selection has not been determined at this time.