Forest Service - BDF Road Maintenance 2025

The USDA Forest Service is procuring road maintenance services for the San Bernardino National Forest in California through solicitation 127EAW25R0059. The project involves maintaining 94.16 miles of roads across five different roads in three Ranger Districts (Front Country, Mountaintop, and San Jacinto), including road blading using motor graders and bulldozers, drainage maintenance, and restoring drainage functions on rocky terrain. Contractors must be licensed in California and demonstrate past performance in similar work, providing technical proposals that detail their work plan, key personnel, and performance schedule. The government will evaluate proposals using a lowest price technically acceptable basis, considering factors including past performance, technical approach, key personnel, performance schedule, and price. The original proposal deadline was September 8, 2025, but Amendment A00001 extended it to September 15, 2025, at 3:00 PM PDT, with all requests for information due by September 2, 2025, at 11:00 AM PDT to Contract Specialist Tanya Torres.

This opportunity is set aside for total small businesses under the Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction NAICS code (237310) with a $45 million size standard. While no specific contract value or incumbent contractor information is provided in the solicitation materials, the project scope includes specific road segments funded through both CMRD and CMXN programs, with roads ranging from 0.16 miles to 15.03 miles in length. The contract includes a 90-day performance period starting in October 2025, with mandatory completion by December 31, 2025, for CMXN-funded road maintenance work. Work is restricted to non-holiday weekdays from dawn to dusk, and the contractor must provide their own accommodations and equipment. The project covers mountainous terrain across San Bernardino, Riverside, and surrounding counties, with specific roads requiring different maintenance approaches due to rocky conditions that mandate bulldozer use instead of standard motor graders for certain segments.