Become a Wildland Firefighting Vendor: Forest Service and CAL FIRE

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Interested in becoming a wildland firefighting vendor? Now is the time to get set up with the Forest Service’s vendor portal (VIPR), and the CAL FIRE Hired Equipment application. We will be joined by a special guest presenter from CAL FIRE to discuss their Hired Equipment program as well as a contracting officer from the US Forest Service to discuss their procurement systems, specifically VIPR.

The Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) is an electronic bidding and award system used by the Forest Service for wildland firefighting solicitations. VIPR allows the Forest Service to solicit bids for what are known as “blanket purchase agreements” during the off-season so that they have a ready list of vendors they can call when a wildfire breaks out later in the year. These solicitations typically open up in the middle of January or February and close in March, so now is the time to get prepared.

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Northern California Procurement Technical Assistance Center (Norcal PTAC) is a government funded nonprofit formed to help small businesses find, bid on, and win contracts with federal, state, local, and tribal agencies. Over 90 Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTACs) — with over 300 local offices — form a nationwide network of more than 600 dedicated procurement professionals who work to help local businesses successfully sell their products and services to government agencies.

Our mission is to advance entrepreneurship and economic growth through procurement technical assistance for all businesses in Northern California. We help our clients identify, obtain, and perform on prime and subcontracting opportunities with local, state, tribal and federal governments. We support all businesses in our service area, with an outreach emphasis on underserved businesses such as women, minority, LGBTQ+, and veteran owned businesses, and businesses located in low-wealth, rural, or disaster impacted areas.
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In Partnership with: The U.S. Forest Service and CAL FIRE
U.S. Forest Service: https://www.fs.usda.gov/
CAL FIRE: https://www.fire.ca.gov/
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