On Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services

The contractor must provide at least one fully compliant light helicopter (not more than 7,000 pounds approved gross weight) with a turbine engine (minimum of 317 takeoff horsepower), capable of carrying three to seven insured passenger seats, and meeting specific payload, avionics, and equipment requirements. Services include interagency fire management support (wildland fire suppression, fire monitoring, initial attack, prescribed fire, aerial ignition, rehabilitation seeding), search and rescue, law enforcement surveillance, and other administrative and natural resource activities. The contractor must also provide a pilot meeting minimum qualifications (1,500 hours in helicopters, 100 hours in last 12 months, etc.), a fuel servicing vehicle for interagency fire operations, and comply with extensive technical specifications for aircraft, avionics, maintenance, and personnel duty limitations.