Rock Creek Road Maintenance

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service is soliciting quotations for road maintenance activities on the Tres Piedras Ranger District of the Carson National Forest in New Mexico under Solicitation No. 127EAX26Q0014. The work encompasses multiple maintenance and construction tasks including drain dip construction, road widening, curve widening, road obliteration, new construction, riprap placement, road reconditioning, and culvert installation across approximately 10.9 miles of base roads and 7.4 miles of optional roads. Quotations must be submitted by April 10, 2026, at 1:00 PM Central Daylight Time, with requests for information due by April 3, 2026. The government will evaluate proposals using three criteria: technical approach (40%), past performance (30%), and price (30%), with award anticipated between May 1 and September 30, 2026. Offerors must demonstrate capability to perform similar work, provide evidence of three comparable projects completed within the past three years, and submit a completed SF 1442 form, price proposal using the provided Schedule of Items, technical proposal, and bid guarantee.

This is a Total Small Business Set-Aside contract under NAICS code 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) with a small business size standard of $45 million, meaning only qualified small businesses are eligible to compete. The work will be performed on the Tres Piedras Ranger District in Tres Piedras, New Mexico, with delivery location at the Carson National Forest Supervisor Office in Taos, New Mexico. The contract is firm-fixed-price with a 160-calendar-day performance period beginning within 10 calendar days after Notice to Proceed, and Davis-Bacon wage rates apply to all work. Key project deliverables include specific quantities such as approximately 180 cubic yards of drain dip construction, 1,390 cubic yards of road widening resulting in 12-foot-wide roads, 0.6 miles of new construction with 600 cubic yards of excavation, and installation of a 57" x 38" arched corrugated metal pipe culvert 30 feet in length. Contractors must register with the Department of Treasury's Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) for invoicing purposes and are required to submit weekly status reports, construction schedules, traffic control plans, and soil erosion and sediment control plans.