127EAX24R0021 – Dry Blue Creek UTV Trail

Description of Work:  The Gila National Forest, Quemado Ranger District has a requirement for restoration and construction of Dry Blue UTV Trail 61. Work consists of rerouting select sections of Trail 61 along Dry Blue Creek to remove unnecessary crossings and trail in the stream/riparian corridor. This includes decommissioning of a similar length of trail. Stabilize low-water crossings on Dry Blue Creek by recontouring and hardening bank approaches. Remove select existing low-water crossings on Dry Blue Creek. Reconstruct and revegetate the channel banks at these crossings. Develop low-water crossings at new locations to cross Dry Blue Creek and its tributaries that will reduce bank instability and provide safe OHV travel across the stream.

Location:  Trail 61/Dry Blue Creek is located on the Quemado Ranger District of the Gila National

Forest, Catron County, New Mexico. The beginning of the OHV trail starts at the end of

Dry Blue Rd, at Latitude 33.76102, Longitude -108.977486 and the first site is located at

Latitude 33.761590, Longitude-108.997619. It is located approximately 4 miles SW of

Luna, New Mexico and 160 miles SW of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Basis for Award:  The Government Anticipates awarding a Firm Fixed-Price Contract using RFP Best Value-Tradeoffs:  Award will be made to the offer that meets or exceeds the requirements contained herein.  This process permits tradeoffs among price and non-price technical factors and allows the Government to accept other than the lowest priced quote. The government will evaluate quotes based on the technical evaluation factors specified in this solicitation.  The evaluation factors other than cost or price, when combined, are more important than cost or price.  The Price reasonableness will be determined by using competitive solicitation process.

Site Visit: Contractors will need to bring a UTV or ATV to access site.

Date:  July 16, 2024, 10:30 MDT

Location:  4 Forest Circle Drive, Luna, NM 87824

Contact Contracting Officer Representative (COR): Elizabeth Sorels - Elizabeth.Sorells@usda.gov

Magnitude of project is between $100,000 to $250,000.

This project is a 100% Small Business Set-Aside. The small business size standard for NAICS 237310 45M

Davis-Bacon wages apply.

Payment bonds are required.

Send questions to michelle.l.bahr@usda.gov no later than July 19, 2024 at 1:00 pm MDT

In order to be eligible for award of a Federal Contract, potential vendors need to already be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov, at the time of award.

Offer Submissions: Offerors shall submit the Return Packet – including a Business Proposal and a Technical Proposal.  The required information SF1442, Section B and K (business proposal) and Section M (technical proposal) of the solicitation.  Offers or responses to the solicitation (include the solicitation number in the name of the document – 127EAX24R0021) may be sent to the Contracting officer by email:  michelle.l.bahr@usda.gov before the deadline.

The Deadline for receipt of responses to the RFP shall be July 31, 2024 @ 1:00 PM MDT

The complete solicitation package will be attached and made available only through SAM.gov, https://sam.gov/content/home on or about 15 days of this notice.  Anyone wishing to participate in this proposed procurement must obtain their copy from SAM.gov.  Copies will not be mailed from the Contracting Office.  All amendments will be posted on SAM.gov. 

All future information about this acquisition, including amendments, will be distributed solely through this site.  Interested parties are responsible for monitoring this site to ensure that they have the most up-to-date information about this acquisition. All responsible sources may submit a response to this announcement which will be considered by this agency.