CHEROKEE NATIONAL FOREST ROAD MAINTENANCE IDIQ

NOTICE: Amendment 2 adds a Questions and Answer document and extends the response date until June 6, 2022.

Another pre-bid meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, May 30, 2022, at 3:00 pm eastern via Microsoft Teams. Please email Bradley.higley@usda.gov on or before the morning of May 30, 2022, to receive the invite to the meeting.

The U.S. Forest Service plans to solicit offers for a Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC), Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with an estimated Not to Exceed (NTE) shared capacity of $5 Million. The ordering period is anticipated to be five years. The Government anticipates to award four (4) Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts for road maintenance work in Tennessee. Additional awards, at Forest Service discretion, may be considered depending on Forest Service need and results of proposal evaluations.  Associated with this Solicitation is the initial Task Order Requests for four orders anticipated to be awarded in conjunction with award of the IDIQ contracts.  Prospective offerors are required to submit quotes for all of the initial task orders advertised with this IDIQ.  Future task orders will be competed amongst the IDIQ contract awardees utilizing the procedures identified in the forthcoming Solicitation.

The acquisition will be set aside for small business concerns.

See attached RFP and subsequent attachments

Location(s):

Various FS locations throughout East Tennessee.

Disclaimer:

This notice does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service. Respondents are advised that the United States (U.S) Government will not pay for any information or administrative cost incurred in response to this notice. All costs associated with responding to this notice will be solely at the responding party's expense. Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the U.S Government to form a binding contract

NOTICE: Amendment 0001 adds a revised list of counties in the scope of work. It also adds a revised spec 811, on pae 7 the language is changed to "Under cutting backslope is not permitted unless approved by CO."