Dept. of Agriculture Soliciting Contractors to Provide Road Maintenance Services in Kisatchie National Forest

JACKSON, MI--(Marketwired - October 14, 2016) - The Kisatchie National Forest is soliciting contractors to perform road maintenance services. Interested contractors must be able to provide all materials, labor, equipment, tools, transportation, permits, licenses, supervision, expertise, and other incidentals necessary to successfully complete road maintenance services, including tasks and subtasks related to road blading, cleaning of culverts and ditches, road brushing, overhead trimming, and aggregate placement on National Forest roads in the Kisatchie National Forest.

The Department of Agriculture intends to award multiple firm-fixed price, performance-based, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts for a basic period of performance from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017, plus two one-year option periods.

Submission of an offer for the basic contract period constitutes an offer to perform in the option period(s), if exercised. This project is set-aside 100% for small businesses. The Dept. of Agriculture intends to issue awards to contractors who will provide the best value to the government.

Responses are due by no later than October 16, 2016 at 3 p.m. CST. Responses can be sent to Contracting Officer Gemaa M. Pelch via email to gpelch02@fs.fed.us.

To receive the contract, contractors must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) database, and have as part of the Registration all current Representations and Certifications.

US Federal Contractor Registration, the world's largest third-party government registration firm, completes this required Registration on behalf of its clients. It also makes available information about opportunities like this, as well as training on how to locate, research, and respond to opportunities.

For more information, to get started with a SAM registration, or to learn more about how US Federal Contractor Registration can help your business succeed, call 877-252-2700, ext. 1.