Wood CO. Multi-well plugging package

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Oil and Gas, is soliciting bids for the Wood County Multi-Well Plugging Package, a construction and reclamation procurement for the plugging and reclamation of orphaned and abandoned oil and natural gas wells. This Agency Request for Quote (ARFQ 0313 DEP2500000048) encompasses 21 wells in Wood County, West Virginia, with 43 total line items including permitting services and individual well plugging and reclamation work identified by API numbers. Bidders must submit unit prices for permitting, plugging, and reclamation activities at each well location, with a fixed-period contract term of 180 days for project completion. Required qualifications include a valid West Virginia contractor's license, a signed drug-free workplace affidavit, commercial general liability and automobile liability insurance with minimum limits of $2,000,000 per occurrence, workers' compensation insurance, and submission of performance bonds and labor/material payment bonds each equal to 100% of the contract value. A mandatory pre-bid meeting was held on February 26, 2025, at 9:00 AM Eastern at the Waverly Volunteer Fire Station, with the technical question deadline of March 3, 2025, at 3:00 PM Eastern, and bids due electronically through the wvOASIS Vendor Self Service portal on March 10, 2025, at 10:30 AM Eastern. Addendum 2, issued March 4, 2025, removed one structure (47-107-01786) from the scope, reducing the project to 20 wells; vendors who submitted bids prior to this addendum must resubmit revised bids. Contractors are responsible for obtaining all required permits from local, state, and federal agencies, and payment will be made in arrears upon work completion with monthly progress reports required.

The solicitation does not identify any set-asides for disadvantaged enterprises or restrictions on organization type eligibility. No incumbent vendor or current contractor information is specified in the solicitation documents, indicating this may be a new procurement or a competitive rebid. Bidders must provide a bid bond equal to 5% of the total bid amount at submission, and no Davis-Bacon wage rates apply to this project. The solicitation documents do not specify an overall contract value or budget range, allowing the award value to be determined by competitive bidding among qualified respondents. All work and invoicing should be directed to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Oil and Gas, located at 601 57th Street SE, Charleston, West Virginia, with monthly progress reports submitted to depplugging@wv.gov. Inquiries regarding this procurement should be directed to Herminio David Robles at (304) 414-1155 or david.h.robles@wv.gov.