Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests Roads Maintenance, Repairs & Construction IDIQ

This is a Solicitation notice being released pursuant to Federal Acquisition (FAR) Part 5. 

A Multiple Award Task Order Contract (IDIQ) for maintenance, repair, and construction of roads within the Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests in South Carolina. The Contractor shall furnish the necessary personnel, material, equipment, facilities, supervision, transportation, operating supplies, and incidentals to perform the ordered tasks. 

Road maintenance includes services, such as: grading; ditch cleaning; cleaning culverts; minor culvert and drainage repair; brushing; mowing, and spot surfacing. These activities will be subject to the Service Contract Act Wage Determinations. Road Repair and Construction includes activities, such as; clearing, excavating, embankment construction, installing culverts, asphalt surfacing, concrete construction, bridge work, and other typical road construction activities. These activities will be subject to the Davis Bacon Act Wage Determinations. Task Orders (TOs) will be packaged with the project specific details. TOs may include only service activities, service and construction activities, or only construction activities. 

The IDIQ contract will have a ceiling of $10,000,000.00. All task orders and subsequent modifications will not exceed $10,000,000.00 over the term of the contracts. The Forest Service will have the right to recompete this requirement or use other contracting methods for similar work that could fall under this IDIQ, at any point during the term of this contract. This is not a Requirements Contract. The Government is not obligated to award any task orders beyond the guaranteed minimum of $2,500 responsive contractors will receive. 

The majority of task orders will most likely be valued under $150,000. Task orders will be solicited to all awarded contractors. Task orders will be awarded to the lowest cost responsive proposal provided by the contractors awarded this contract. In order to be responsive to the task order solicitations, contractors shall respond to a minimum of 75% of all task orders solicited under this contract. Any project specifc requirements will be specified in Individual Task Orders. 

The Government intends to award multiple contracts for the services of up to eight (8) contractors under this solicitation. 

This is a 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside. The primary NAICS code is 237310 Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction. The small business size standard is $45 Million. 

Request for Proposal (RFP) due date for pricing proposals is Friday, June 7, 2024 by 5:00pm (ET). 

The sites visits will be held at the following locations for the corresponding line items and Forests listed in the Schedule of Items:

Date:    Tuesday, May 14h, 2024

Time:   1100 hrs.

Location: Andrew Pickens Ranger District Office

               112 Andrew Pickens Cir

               Mountain Rest, SC  29664

Date:    Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

Time:   1000 hrs.

Location: Enoree Ranger District Office

               20 Work Center Rd

               Whitmire, SC  29178

Date:    Thursday, May 16th, 2024

Time:   1000 hrs.

Location: Francis Marion Ranger District Office

                2967 Steed Creek Rd

                Huger, SC  29450

Point of Contact (POC) for sites visits is COR Karl Buchholz, Karl.Buchholz@usda.gov. 

Any questions about this solicitation must be submitted NLT 1300, Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024.