QnA 05.15.2026 Bob Ruud (1).pdf

Questions and Answers during Advertisement for NV FLAP NYE 10(1) Bob Ruud Mem Hwy & Bell Vista Ave

May 4, 2026

Questions Answers 1 At the Contractor’s option, will you allow a Hveem JMF to be submitted in accordance with Section 402?

No

2 After review of the bid documents, the time allowed to bid this job is not enough time based on 6/2/26 bid date. An industry standard for this jobs’ scope & size would be six weeks. Can you please push the bid date (to 6/11/26) to allow more time to bid this project?

Amendment A001 will address this

May 5, 2026

1 There are two bid items for hydraulic seeding; A0630 and

B0690. These two bid items total 94 acres. This environment needs to have hydraulic mulching to get successful seed establishment. Will hydraulic mulching be added to the bid schedule? (We recommend adding per 625.08 (b) Bonded Fiber Matrix.)

Amendment A001 will address this

2 Can you please let us know the anticipated NTP for the project so we can review the completion dates in the SCR’s more thoroughly against the NTP?

The contractor may expect an award to be issued within 60 days of bid opening, assuming funds are available. A NTP will be issued within a reasonable amount of time after acceptable performance and payment bonds are received.

3 Page E-12 of the SCR’s, 107.10(c), second paragraph, the contractor can bid to develop the weed management plan pre-bid and put those costs into the bid, but the costs to follow the plan cannot be bid until the plan is developed. Can you please add a force account bid item for this item to follow the plan once developed? We have no way to bid something we have no information on.

No. A site investigation is recommended – see FAR clause 52.236-3.

4 107.01, NDOT Temporary Occupancy Permit, can FHWA get this permit prior to NTP? This is a time-consuming permit and will only delay the start of the project waiting until NTP to get this permit. It could also affect the completion date depending on when this permit is actually procured.

No

5 Can you please review (Page E-38) to eliminate that only 5-acres of clearing & grubbing at a time can be done? With your completion dates, we need to be able to work on the entire project at one time not break it into 5-acres phases. Can you please clarify more on this one if it cannot be eliminated?

Amendment A001 will address this

6 Can you please let us know how we can access these files as stated in Section 102.02A Physical data.

All the files have been uploaded in the Attachment section in SAM.gov.

May 6, 2026

1 If the contractor furnished field laboratory option is exercised, may we use our permanent materials laboratory facility in lieu of a mobile field laboratory? Our materials laboratory is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, approximately 50 miles from the project site.

Please let me know if this would be an acceptable substitution.

See Subsection 154.04B

May 15, 2026

1 At Station 718+85, there is a staging area with a Nye County sign, can this be used for staging? According to Nye County, they have given FHWA permission to use it for this project.

See Subsection 105.05 FP-14.

2 You have a traffic control bid item for temporary barrier rail for 2,500’. Can you explain where you intend for this to be used? It shows from 564 to 1382, but what about from 303+60 to 564 where you have the 8’ widening with a 15” drop off once to subgrade? Will you require this 5-miles +/- to have temporary barrier rail?

See Subsection 635.04 FP-14 and Section 156