FY27-LiftPackPerformWorkStmt QualAssurPlan

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS) and

QUALITY ASSURANCE SURVEILLANCE PLAN (QASP)

LIFTING AND PROCESSING OF TREE SEEDLINGS

J. HERBERT STONE NURSERY, ROGUE RIVER-SISKYOU NATIONAL FOREST

FY27

1.0 SCOPE OF CONTRACT

a)

This is a non-personal services contract to provide tree seedling lifting and processing at the J. Herbert Stone Nursery. The Government shall neither supervise contractor employees nor control the method by which the contractor performs the required tasks. Under no circumstances shall the Government assign tasks to, or prepare work schedules for, individual contractor employees. It shall be the responsibility of the contractor to manage its employees and to guard against any actions that are of the nature of personal services, or give the perception of personal services.

b) Services include bareroot seedling lifting, field packing, distribution and pick-up of seedling containers, popping or hand pulling containerized plug seedlings, grading, sorting, counting, pruning, and packaging of acceptable bareroot and containerized seedlings, and associated activities. Also included is cleaning of the processing shed, break room, restrooms, and cull disposal tunnel.
c)

"Lifting" includes hand lifting (pulling) of tree seedlings from undercut seedling beds, gently shaking excess soil off root systems and packing burlap wrapped bundles of seedlings into seedling tubs or bins. Lifting may also include seedlings placed on top of ground by lifting equipment for hand pick-up and not pulled out of the ground.

d) "Distribution and Pick-up of seedling containers" includes unloading of all empty containers and/or covering materials from the trailer, loading and stacking all filled containers onto trailers, loading bundles into bins, and moving empty containers which are on the ground in the vicinity of the lifters. e)

Popping of containerized seedlings includes placing styroblock plug containers into a popping machine, removing the popped containers, and placing them onto seedling benches. Hand pulling of non-standard containers will occur for container types that will not fit into the popping machines.

f)

Seedling processing includes grading, sorting, counting, pruning, and packaging of acceptable bareroot and containerized seedlings, and associated activities. Also included is cleaning of the processing shed, breakroom, restrooms, and cull disposal tunnel. The contractor will provide all supervision, labor, supplies, tools, equipment, and incidentals necessary to