The Columbia Zone engineering program maintains, builds, and deactivates a variety of forest service road (FSR) to facilitate BCTS Okanagan-Columbia works, projects, and timber sales. The proposed contract requires the FSR maintenance of forest roads throughout the Golden operating areas of Columbia Zone to meet annual business targets, improve timber sale access, and meet BCTS and industry FSR goals and standards. Works will be located throughout the Golden Operating Areas of BCTS - Okanagan-Columbia. Works required will include, but not be limited to, culvert clearing, culvert replacement, culvert removal, ditching, debris removal, slope stabilization, running surface reestablishment, grading, and simple deactivation. Works will be assigned at the start of field season on an “as needed” basis through a priority driven process throughout the field season.
See the Schedule C Project Specifications for specific works required.
Maps provided within the documents package for this Opportunity are general overviews of operating areas for information purposes only and
do not indicate specific work sites. Maps for specific works and projects will be provided at the contract pre-work and on an as needed basis throughout the work season.
Questions & Answers
All contract related questions must be submitted in writing ONLY to the following email address:
Forests.OkanaganColumbiaTimberSalesOffice@gov.bc.ca. Deadline for receiving questions is
4:00 pm on May 1, 2025. If questions are received, a Question & Answer document will be posted to BC Bid by
May 6, 2025.
Tender submissions must be submitted in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in the tender package.
A Bid Security is required for this contract, supplied at the time of tender, and to the standards outlined in Section 6.0 of the Conditions of Tender.
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.
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
Okanagan-Columbia Business Area
BC Timber Sales
