Solicitation
Stove Prairie Campground Gate Replacement
Department of Agriculture · Forest Service
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AI summaryOnly small businesses can bid. The U.S. Forest Service (USDA) wants a broken 32-foot double-lane closure gate at Stove Prairie Landing, near Bellvue, Colorado, removed and replaced, for the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland. Quotes go by email and the response due date is November 11, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern. The documents give August 31, 2027 as the completion date. More in the summary
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Only small businesses can bid. The U.S. Forest Service (USDA) wants a broken 32-foot double-lane closure gate at Stove Prairie Landing, near Bellvue, Colorado, removed and replaced, for the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland. Quotes go by email and the response due date is November 11, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern. The documents give August 31, 2027 as the completion date.
Who can bid
- Small business (total small business set-aside; size standard $45 million for NAICS 237990)
- Active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM)
- Hold any needed licenses and permits and follow federal, state and local laws
How to submit: Email to Jordan Carlsen, Contract Specialist, at Jordan.Carlsen@usda.gov, with the solicitation number 1240LT27Q0005 and the project name in the subject line. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (8)
From the version posted Oct 20, 2026.
- Serious: Small businesses only. The buy is set aside for small businesses under a $45 million size standard, so larger firms cannot bid.
- Serious: Payment protection for 100% of the price within 10 days of award. You must give the Government a payment bond (on the mandatory SF 25A form, no substitutes) or an irrevocable letter of credit covering the full price plus one year after performance.
- Worth checking: Completion time stated two ways. The offer form says finish within 274 calendar days after award or notice to proceed, while another section says finish by August 31, 2027. Ask the contracting officer which governs.
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- Worth checking: Federal construction wage rules apply. The Construction Wage Rate Requirements clause (Davis-Bacon, which sets minimum pay for construction workers) is included, so payrolls and wage records are required.
- Minor: Site visit recommended but not required. No date is given for a site visit; the site is open to the public, so you can look at it on your own.
- Minor: Question email address given two ways. The question deadline text uses a usda.com address, while the notice and other sections use usda.gov. Use usda.gov and confirm if unsure.
- Minor: Page limit stated inconsistently. The quote limit is 3 pages not counting the Schedule of Items, but a later sentence refers to a 10-page criterion. Keep to 3 pages.
- Minor: Technical approach text mentions flooring. The evaluation text describes the work as flooring installation, which looks like a template error. Ask the contracting officer to confirm the gate replacement is what is evaluated.
Read from the notice and 5 attachments. Show which files.
- Attach 4 - C05 SOW Stove Prairie CG Replacement.pdf (read)
- C05 1240LT27Q0005.pdf (read)
- Attach 1 - C05 SOI Stove Prairie Campground gate Replacement.pdf (read)
- Attach 3 - C05 Stove Prairie Road Closure Gate Details.pdf (read)
- Attach 2 - C05 Stove Prairie Concrete Specs FP 24 Section 601.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Remove the existing broken 32-foot double-lane gate and posts and dispose of them off Forest Service land, in a State-approved landfill or recycling
- Install a new prefabricated gate with holding posts and support posts, set in poured concrete, per the attached drawings and at the spot marked by the contracting officer's representative (COR)
- Do site preparation, surveying to keep the gate level, excavation, backfill, final grading and revegetation (the Government supplies seed)
- Prime and paint the gate with two coats of Forest Service Brown, and mount barricade markers, object markers and a no-parking sign per the drawing
- Keep the recreation site open to the public: set up barriers and signs that meet the federal road-sign standard (MUTCD); any traffic closure needs an approved traffic control plan
- Send a schedule, material submittals (gate drawings, concrete tests, object markers), a staging area outline, a traffic control plan and an accident prevention plan 14 days before construction is intended to begin
- Do a utility locate before digging; the Government supplies the Yale locks
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (one set price), commercial construction; combined synopsis/solicitation, request for quotation (RFQ); one award planned
- Period of performance
- Start work within 10 calendar days after receiving the notice to proceed; Block 11 of the form says finish within 274 calendar days after award or notice to proceed; the Period of Performance section says finish no later than August 31, 2027
- Place of performance
- Stove Prairie Campground, 16500 Poudre Canyon Rd, Bellvue, CO
- Estimated value
- Project magnitude between $25,000 and $100,000
- How they'll choose
- Best value to the Government, with no formal trade-off procedures; technical approach gets a confidence rating, and price is checked to be fair and reasonable
- Offers due
- November 11, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email to Jordan Carlsen, Contract Specialist, at Jordan.Carlsen@usda.gov, with the solicitation number 1240LT27Q0005 and the project name in the subject line
- Page limits
- Quote: no more than 3 pages, not counting the Schedule of Items; Technical narrative: 1-3 pages
What they'll judge offers on
- Technical Approach: a 1-3 page narrative with an execution plan covering key tasks and milestones, plus a construction schedule (such as a Gantt chart); rated High, Some, Low or Neutral confidence
- Price: all items on the Schedule of Items priced in the Excel spreadsheet (mobilization and gate replacement), checked as fair and reasonable
What to include when you submit
- Send a Technical Approach narrative with an execution plan covering key tasks and milestones
- Include a construction schedule (such as a Gantt chart) within the performance period
- Price both base items on the Excel Schedule of Items, Attachment 1 (not PDF); round each line up to the whole dollar
- Put your company name and unique entity ID (UEI) in the highlighted vendor block at the top of the Schedule of Items
- Price all items: quotes that leave base items unpriced may be excluded
- Use Times New Roman 12-point font on 8 x 11 paper
- Acknowledge every amendment in Block 19 of the SF 1442 (the construction offer form); failing to do so means your offer is rejected
- Hold your prices firm for 60 calendar days after the response due date
- Send questions to the contract specialist by October 28, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern, with the solicitation name and number in the subject line
After award, you must have
- Provide payment protection (a payment bond on Standard Form 25A, or an irrevocable letter of credit) for 100% of the contract price within 10 days of award From C05 1240LT27Q0005.pdf:
The submission of the payment protection is required within 10 days of contract award.
- Have an account in the Treasury's Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) before work starts From Attach 4 - C05 SOW Stove Prairie CG Replacement.pdf:
…an established account prior to commencement of work.
Not in the notice text
- The Davis-Bacon wage determination (the posted minimum pay rates) was not in the text provided; check SAM.gov for it.
- The form's checkboxes for performance and payment bonds and for an offer guarantee couldn't be read; check the form on SAM.gov.
- No site visit date is given.
- The signing contracting officer is not yet named in the Statement of Work (the form lists Lucas J. Dahlman as contracting officer).
Eligibility and how to respond
- Set aside for small businesses: only a business that counts as small under this notice's NAICS code can bid as the prime contractor. More open small business set-asides under NAICS 237990
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to Jordan Carlsen, Contract Specialist, at Jordan.Carlsen@usda.gov, with the solicitation number 1240LT27Q0005 and the project name in the subject line. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Construction contracts over $2,000 pay at least the local Davis-Bacon wage rates, from the wage determination in the solicitation. Price your labor from it: How to price a government contract, and how Davis-Bacon differs from the Service Contract Act.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- USDA-FS, CSA Intermountain 8, Ogden, UT
- Product/service code
- Z1PZ · Maintenance of Other Non-Building Facilities
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 237990)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 20, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Nov 11, 2026
- Oct 20, 2026 · SolicitationDue Nov 11, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Set-aside contracts explained
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
Description: The requirement calls for the disposal and replacement of an existing broken 32' double lane closure gate at Stove Prairie Landing. NAICS code 237990 - Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction as as 100% SB Set Aside. PSC Code Z1PZ - Maintenance of other non-building facilities. Size standard - $45 million. Questions Due: October 28th, 2026 at 14:00 Eastern Standard Time(EST).Quotes Due: November 11th, 2026 at 14:00 Eastern standard Time (EST). All questions and quotes relating to this Solicitation shall be submitted to Contract Specialist, Jordan Carlsen at Jordan.Carlsen@usda.gov by the deadlines stated above. Late quotes will be rejected.
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