Harrison Co. Well Plugging Package - Group B

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Oil and Gas, is soliciting bids under ARFQ DEP27-031 for permitting, well plugging, and wellsite reclamation at fourteen orphaned and abandoned wells in Harrison County, with a mandatory pre-bid meeting on November 12, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern. Attendance at the pre-bid meeting is required for bid eligibility, and the meeting is held at Veterans Memorial Park in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The solicitation requires that 75 percent of employees be hired from the local labor market.

Pricing is submitted as unit prices across twenty-nine line items covering permitting and, for each well, plugging and reclamation. Work is subject to Davis-Bacon prevailing wage rates under Section 40601 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Compliance obligations include Endangered Species Act requirements and State Historic Preservation Office requirements. A Mountain Valley Pipeline Developer Handbook is attached, requiring written MVP approval for encroachment and an MVP representative on site for work within the right-of-way or within 25 feet of the pipeline. The handbook also prohibits blasting within 500 feet of pipelines without an approved blast plan and indemnification agreement.

The contract is a term contract with an initial one-year term, renewable for up to three successive one-year periods by mutual written consent, with approval from the Department and the Attorney General's office. Work must begin upon Notice to Proceed and finish within 365 days. Required bonds are a bid bond of 5 percent of the total bid, and performance and labor/material payment bonds of 100 percent of contract value each. Insurance requires commercial general liability and automobile liability limits of $2 million per occurrence, plus workers' compensation. Liquidated damages are $1,000 per working day for delays beyond the completion date.

The solicitation establishes no set-asides for small, women-owned, or minority-owned businesses. Non-resident vendors certified as such may receive preferences equivalent to resident vendors upon proper certification and identification.

Technical questions are due November 16, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, and bids are due November 20, 2026, at 10:30 a.m. Eastern through wvOASIS Vendor Self Service. Work is performed at the Harrison County well sites, with administration at the Office of Oil and Gas in Charleston, West Virginia. The buyer contact is Herminio David Robles at (304) 414-1155 or david.h.robles@wv.gov.