Coeur d'Alene Nursery Labor for cleaning and moving containers.

The Coeur d'Alene Nursery in Idaho requires labor services to support various nursery operations. Under solicitation number 1284LL23Q0002, the selected contractor will perform tasks including cleaning and dipping containers, moving containers between growing areas and packing stations, and extracting, grading, and packing seedlings and native plant species. Additional responsibilities involve sorting and palletizing boxes, dumping containers, laying out benchtops in greenhouses, and root pruning plugs prior to transplanting.

The scope of work further encompasses rogueing to ensure one healthy seedling remains per cell, weeding containers, and filling containers with growing media for sowing. Laborers will also transplant seedlings into larger containers, consolidate tubes into full trays, and prepare blocks for sowing by managing media levels. Final preparation tasks include pruning seedlings for health or packing and removing dead larch needles. These activities are classified under NAICS 115310 Support Activities for Forestry and PSC F009 Natural Resources/Conservation- Seed Collection/Production.

This combined synopsis/solicitation was published on November 4, 2022, by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Responses are due by December 1, 2022, for the work located in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Daniel Szambelan serves as the point of contact for this requirement. The solicitation includes one attachment, a PDF document titled 1284LL23Q0002 CDA Nursery Labor, which contains the full details of the requirement.