AR and OK NF Road Construction 2016-2018

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8-Southern Region established this Master IDIQ on March 1, 2016, to perform road maintenance on the Ouachita National Forest and Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Ordering closed on December 31, 2018, and the vehicle is no longer active.

The vehicle funded 116 task orders over its three-year active period, averaging 39 orders per year. All $4.5 million in combined potential value has been obligated, with no remaining capacity. Work consisted of road blading, road brushing, overhead trimming, ditch and culvert cleaning, and aggregate placement and hauling on National Forest roads across multiple ranger districts. Task orders ranged from small spot-work orders around $5,000 to performance-based service contracts at $70,000–$115,000, with most individual orders falling between $20,000 and $70,000.

Fourteen prime contractors shared the work. Freeman David, Lavan Robinson, and Darrell Robinson—three individuals—dominated the awardee pool by order count, holding 27, 20, and 16 orders respectively, accounting for 69 percent of all task orders. By potential value, the top five primes (Lavan Robinson, Darrell Robinson, Freeman David, Philpot Construction Inc., and Robinson Xcavating & Hauling LLC) captured roughly the same 69 percent of the combined potential value. A long tail of smaller contractors received the remaining orders.

Sixty-one percent of task orders (71 orders) carried small-business set-asides, while 39 percent (45 orders) were unrestricted. The customer base consisted entirely of the Forest Service R8 Southern Region; no other agencies placed orders under this vehicle. Work performance was concentrated across eight ranger districts of the two forests, with no single site dominating; orders dispersed geographically across the Ouachita (Caddo/Womble, Jessieville, Fourche, Poteau, Cold Springs, Winona, Oden, Mena, Oklahoma) and Ozark-St. Francis (Boston Mountain, Big Piney, Pleasant Hill, Sylamore, St. Francis) ranger districts.

The Ouachita National Forest and Ozark-St. Francis National Forest is soliciting contractors to perform road maintenance services. Contractors provide all materials, labor, equipment, tools, transportation, permits, licenses, supervision, expertise, and other incidentals necessary to successfully complete road maintenance services including tasks and subtasks related to road blading, cleaning of culverts and ditches, road brushing, overhead trimming, and aggregate placement on National Forest roads in Arkansas and Oklahoma.