SOLICITATION NOTICE
Z -- Remove Logging Roads at Redwood National Park
- Notice Date
- 4/23/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- PWR - REDW Redwood National and State Parks 1111 Second Street Crescent City CA 95531
- ZIP Code
- 80225-0287
- Solicitation Number
- N8485030006
- Archive Date
- 4/22/2004
- Point of Contact
- Rod Roberson Contract Specialist 70746461015040 Rod_Roberson@nps.gov;
- E-Mail Address
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Point of Contact above, or if none listed, contact the IDEASEC HELP DESK for assistance
(EC_helpdesk@NBC.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Park Service seeks proposals for logging road removal at Redwood National Park, located in Humboldt and Del Norte counties, California. Redwood National Park is removing roads, landings and skid roads to reduce future erosion and restore natural landforms and watershed systems. This contract involves excavating road fill from stream channels, pulling back side-cast road fill, decompacting roads, retrieving and burying debris from logging and other activities (culverts, cable, concrete foundations, etc.), and restoring the natural configuration of the land (ridges, stream valleys and swales). Trees and logs encountered during excavations will be spread over finished surfaces. The finished surfaces of all areas disturbed by the equipment shall be left in a manner suitable for transplanting, re-establishment of native vegetation and trail construction. Reconstruction of failed sections of road is often necessary in order to access the road removal work sites. The ultimate goal of the work is to restore the national and state park lands to a condition similar to what would have existed without disturbance by humans. The earth moving work that is required in this contract is the critical foundation of this restoration effort. Stream crossings will be excavated to original width, depth, and slope to expose natural channel armor and buried topsoil. Removal of roads and skid roads will include retrieval of fill material displaced during road construction. Sidecast fill material will be excavated along road benches to expose buried topsoil. Excavated material will be moved to stable locations, placed against cutbanks, and shaped to blend with the surrounding topography above and below the road to re-create the landforms that existed prior to road construction. Occasionally, excavated material may need to be end-hauled to more distant fillsites. The size of excavations associated with this work can range from less than one hundred cubic yards to tens of thousands of cubic yards in volume. The moisture content and type of material to be excavated can vary significantly from one work site to another. Ground conditions and material to be excavated can vary from dry to completely saturated. The type of material to be excavated can vary from fine-grained soil material to large concentrations and quantities of rock, boulders, rootwads, and sections of old growth trees. These variations in excavated material and ground conditions are inherent to the nature of this work. The terrain in the project area is steep, irregular, and vegetated with 25 to 50 year old second growth and old growth redwood forest. The nature of the work will require equipment to be used on steep terrain and in difficult working conditions. Equipment will be required to push fill material up steep inclines as well as shape and finish steep slopes. This will require the equipment to traverse, move around, and sit on steep slopes while performing the work. Access to some work sites, or portions of work sites, will require operator skill and dexterity to minimize access impacts over steep irregular ground. Large quantities of vegetation will be removed before and during excavation, stockpiled, then spread over finished surfaces. Operator planning and forethought will be necessary to manage vegetation and excavated material efficiently. Contractors and equipment operators must be able to accurately interpret written and verbal excavation details. They must be able to visualize and plan all aspects of work required at each site to ensure that access is not cut off inadvertently or prematurely. Skill in operation and coordination of heavy equipment is necessary to ensure cost-effective restoration. Adverse impacts to park resources (e.g. old growth trees, natural ground surface, water quality, vegetation, wildlife habitat, etc.) must be minimized in accomplishing the required work. The NAICS code is 238910, and the applicable size standard for this project is $12 million. This is a one-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. The magnitude of the overall project is estimated to be between $500,000 to $1,000,000. The Government may elect to award a single contract or multiple task order contracts to one or more sources. Each awardee shall be provided a fair opportunity to be considered for task orders to be issued. This procurement is unrestricted; all responsible sources may submit a proposal. Issuance of the Request for Proposal (RFP) is expected to be on or about May 27, 2003 with proposals due thirty (30) days thereafter. Interested parties may download the solicitation from www.fedbizopps.gov or directly from the DOI National Business Center website at www.ideasec.nbc.gov. Hardcopies of this solicitation will not be available. The participation of small business concerns in this acquisition is encouraged.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Redwood National Park, Humboldt County, California
- Zip Code: 95531
- Country: United States
- Zip Code: 95531
- Record
- SN00310371-F 20030425/030424064751 (fbodaily.com)
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