Requirement Statement Contract Management Solution shall provide a mechanism to capture, track, manage, and report on important contract details including, but not limited to: contract name contractor scope of work contract dates contract amount funding strings payments compliance tracking Solution Category: Vendor’s Narrative Response: Requirement Statement Contract Budget Management Solution shall provide a mechanism to plan, track, and manage annual contract budgets by area and region. Solution Category: Vendor’s Narrative Response: Requirement Statement Contractor Portal Solution shall provide a public web portal where contractors can view the status of their contracts, communicate with forestry staff overseeing their contracts, and provide updates on the progress of the contracted work (e.g., work started; work completed). Solution Category: Vendor’s Narrative Response: Forest Inventory and Resource Assessment Forest inventory includes an annual set of activities scheduled in order to build and maintain the core forest stand boundaries and attributes that form the foundation for forest management on 4.9 million acres of state lands. The basic premise of an inventory is to describe the composition and condition of a stand at the time it is observed. Approximately 2/3 of inventories are conducted by DNR area foresters and 1/3 are completed by contract foresters hired and managed by the Resource Assessment program. Each region/area sets annual acreage goals for the amount of inventory work to be completed.
Cutting in violation of the permit specifications Cutting unauthorized timber in the permit area or negligently damaging or destroying unsold timber in connection with permit operations Moving unscaled products from the permit area without a signed Consumer Scale Agreement, Load Ticket, or alternate landing agreement Moving timber in violation of a consumer scale agreement Moving timber in violation of the alternate landing agreement Cutting timber before a permit is issued, after the permit expires or is revoked, or while the permit is suspended Removing timber products from an expired permit after the allowance period, or any other destruction of, or injury to, state-owned real estate The responsible trespass party when a state permit is involved is typically the permit holder. The responsible trespass party where an adjacent landowner illegally or mistakenly harvests timber from state land is the adjacent landowner. If trespass timber is intermingled with other timber so it cannot be identified, the state may seize all the timber, sell it, and retain the entire proceeds of the sale. Requirement Statement Timber Trespass Solution shall support the ability to create, update, track, and manage timber trespass events, details, and statuses including, but not limited to, investigation reports, type of trespass, damages, recommendations for resolution, and final disposition. Solution Category: Vendor’s Narrative Response: Requirement Statement Trespass by Client/Permit Solution shall support the ability to associate a trespass event to a client and/or a permit. Solution Category: Vendor’s Narrative Response: Requirement Statement Trespass Letters & Invoices Solution shall provide mechanisms to create and manage letters and invoices associated with trespass events. In the case of state-as-trespasser, a Release Statement needs to be generated that is signed by the damaged landowner before a payment can be made by the state for damages. Solution Category: Vendor’s Narrative Response: