CITY OF BOZEMAN, MONTANA INVITATION FOR BIDS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Bozeman, Montana, is accepting sealed bids for:

Phase 3 of the Sourdough Fuels Reduction Project

Separate sealed Bids for Phase 3 of the Sourdough Fuels Reduction Project will be received by the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 121 North Rouse Avenue, Suite 201, Bozeman, Montana 59715 until 2:00 p.m. (local time) on Wednesday, October 19 ^th , 2022 and then publicly opened and read aloud. Late bids will not be considered. Original copies must be submitted; no faxed or electronic bids will be accepted.

A.) The physical address for hand-delivery or shipping of bids is: City Clerk’s Office, Suite 201, City Hall, North Rouse Avenue, Bozeman, MT 59715

B.) The address for USPS mailing of bids is: City Clerk’s Office, Suite 201, City Hall, P.O. Box 1230, Bozeman, Montana 59771-1230

Project Description: The overall project area is 380 acres of contiguous timbered lands owned by the City in Sections 7, 17, and 18 of T3S, R6E (Principal Meridian of Montana). Work generally consists of two major categories: A) Residual slash treatment on 79 acres of Helicopter Units consisting of 21.7 acres of Pile & Burn treatments and 57.3 acres of Lop & Scatter treatments; and B) Precommercial Thinning (PCT) of small diameter ladder fuels and lop and scatter of accumulated dead and down fuels on untreated timber stands within the Project area. Work must be completed no later than June 30, 2024.

The Bidding Documents may be examined and obtained free of charge from the Issuing Office, which for this project is online at www.bozeman.net through the Bids/RFPs/RFQs webpage ( https://weblink.bozeman.net/WebLink/Browse.aspx?id=263669&dbid=0&repo=BOZEMAN ). To submit a Bid, a Bidder is responsible for downloading and printing the Bidding Documents pdf file for this project and any Addenda issued for the Bidding Documents.

There will be an optional Pre-Bid Conference at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 12th, 2022. The conference will occur at the Sourdough Canyon Trailhead, situated at the end of Sourdough Canyon Road in the NE1/4 of Section 7, T3S, R6E. The pre-bid conference will include a visit to the project ar