Sources Sought
WY BR WYAO US20(1) US 20 and Hayden Arch Bridge Repairs
Department of Transportation · Federal Highway Administration
AI summaryThe Federal Highway Administration's Central Federal Lands Division wants to know which prime contractors are interested in repairing the Hayden Arch Bridge near Cody, Wyoming. This is a sources sought notice, not a request for bid, and answers will decide whether the later solicitation is set aside for a small business program. The response due date is November 4, 2026, 2:00 PM Mountain (4:00 PM Eastern); the notice's estimated cost range is $2,000,000 to $5,000,000, with 120 days of construction. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Federal Highway Administration who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
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The Federal Highway Administration's Central Federal Lands Division wants to know which prime contractors are interested in repairing the Hayden Arch Bridge near Cody, Wyoming. This is a sources sought notice, not a request for bid, and answers will decide whether the later solicitation is set aside for a small business program. The response due date is November 4, 2026, 2:00 PM Mountain (4:00 PM Eastern); the notice's estimated cost range is $2,000,000 to $5,000,000, with 120 days of construction.
Who can bid
- Qualified prime contractor that is a small business, HUBZone small business, woman-owned small business, 8(a) small business or service-disabled veteran-owned small business, if you want to be counted toward a set-aside
- Bonding capacity for a single project of $5 million, shown by a bonding agent's letter, plus your aggregate bonding capacity
- Registered in the System for Award Management (SAM)
How to submit: Email to CFLContracts@dot.gov, Attn: Laura Slauter. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Oct 21, 2026.
- Serious: Bonding letter required with your response. You need a bonding agent's letter covering a $5 million single project and your total bonding capacity; a business without bonding cannot respond fully.
- Serious: Project list must match the specific bridge work. Only projects of equal or greater value and scope that include the named bridge repair work count; other projects are not wanted.
- Worth checking: A set-aside may follow. Responses decide whether the later solicitation is limited to small business, HUBZone, woman-owned, 8(a) or service-disabled veteran-owned firms.
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- Minor: Plans and specifications are not available yet. This is not a request for bid, so you cannot price the job from this notice.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Repair concrete spalls, cracks and delamination in the bridge deck and superstructure (Repair Concrete (Deep): 38 SQYD; Deep Bridge Deck: 80 SQYD; Full Depth Bridge Deck: 80 SQYD, where SQYD means square yards)
- Install a waterproofing membrane on the bridge deck: 445 SQYD
- Build a temporary debris shield under the bridge (lump sum)
- Reconstruct the bridge approaches: Roadway Aggregate 310 TONS and Asphalt Concrete Pavement 350 TONS
- Minor drainage improvements, signing, soil erosion control (lump sum) and 12-inch concrete curb: 520 LNFT (linear feet)
- Replace guardrail (Guardrail System Mgs, Type 2, Class A, Steel Posts): 263 LNFT
- The bridge will be closed to public traffic for the duration of construction
- Contract type
- Construction contract with one base schedule and no options (price type not stated)
- Period of performance
- 120 days of construction; the notice's anticipated schedule runs from advertisement in January 2027, award in March 2027 and notice to proceed in April 2027 to completion in October 2027
- Place of performance
- Hayden Arch Bridge on Hayden Arch Road, approximately 5 miles west of Cody, WY, spanning the Shoshone River
- Estimated value
- Estimated cost range between $2,000,000 and $5,000,000
- Offers due
- November 4, 2026, 2:00 PM Mountain (2:00 PM local Denver time; 4:00 PM Eastern)
- How to submit
- Email to CFLContracts@dot.gov, Attn: Laura Slauter
What to include when you submit
- State positively that you intend to submit a bid on the solicitation as a prime contractor (the firm that holds the contract directly with the Government)
- List all confirmed socioeconomic categories that apply to your business (8(a), small-disadvantaged business, HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, EDWOSB or WOSB)
- Attach a letter from a bonding agent (the surety that backs your bid and performance) stating your capability to bond a single $5 million project and your aggregate bonding capacity
- List road construction projects of equal or greater value and scope that included reconstruction of bridge approaches, minor drainage improvements, signing, guardrail replacement, bridge concrete spall, crack, delamination and patch repairs, a deck waterproofing membrane and a temporary debris shield
- Do not send information on projects that do not include that work
Not in the notice text
- Whether there will be a site visit, and whether it would be required, is not stated.
- Which wage rule applies (for example a Davis-Bacon wage determination, the federal minimum pay rates for construction workers) is not stated.
- The award method and evaluation factors for the later solicitation are not given.
- The solicitation itself is expected only after this market research; its due date is not given.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside. Any business can reply: this is market research, and no bid is being taken yet.
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
- 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 21, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- 6982AF Central Federal Lands Divisi, Lakewood, CO
- Product/service code
- Y1LB · Construction of Highways, Roads, Streets, Bridges, and Railways
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 237310)
- 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
Terms on this notice: Sources sought notice
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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