Kisatchie NF Road Maintenance 2017-2019

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8-Southern Region established this Master IDIQ for road maintenance services at Kisatchie National Forest, with ordering closed as of December 31, 2018. This vehicle is no longer active for new task orders.

The contract covered road blading, culvert and ditch cleaning, road brushing, overhead trimming, and aggregate placement on National Forest roads within Kisatchie National Forest. Work was geographically concentrated at the Kisatchie, Catahoula, Caney, and Calcasieu ranger districts in Louisiana. All 50 task orders issued under this vehicle were placed by the same contracting office; customer concentration was absolute.

The vehicle issued 50 delivery orders between March 2017 and September 2019, with ordering intensity declining from 19 orders in 2017 to 13 in 2018 and rebounding to 18 in 2019. Roughly 72 percent of orders carried no set-aside designation, with the remaining 28 percent awarded to small business contractors. Work was priced firm-fixed throughout.

Russell Long dominated the award base, capturing 18 of 50 orders and $1.1 million of the $2.9 million combined potential value—approximately 38 percent of total value. Buck Carter Construction Company, Inc. placed second with 9 orders and $884 thousand, followed by Charles Nash Contracting Service Inc. with 10 orders and $424 thousand. PKS Road Construction, LLC held 9 orders valued at $285 thousand, and Dcms, Inc. claimed 4 orders at $148 thousand. Five distinct primes shared the work.

Task-order values ranged from $2,500 to $622.7 thousand, with Hurricane Harvey recovery work in 2019 driving the largest orders. All $2.9 million in combined potential value has been obligated. Individual delivery orders typically ranged from $25 thousand to $100 thousand for routine seasonal maintenance, with recovery and improvement work commanding higher values.

The Kisatchie National Forest is soliciting contractors to perform road maintenance services. For this requirement, the contractor shall 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 the Kisatchie National Forest.