Solicitation
Administrative Parking Lot Repairs
Department of Agriculture · Forest Service
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AI summaryRequest for quotation 1240LT27Q0019 is a total small business set-aside from the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service to repair and resurface three administrative parking lots in Boulder, Idaho Springs and Fort Collins, Colorado, for the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest and Pawnee National Grassland. The work is crack sealing, pavement patching, seal coating and re-striping under one firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) award, with a stated project magnitude between $25,000 and $100,000. The response due date is November 23, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern, and the winner must give a payment bond or letter of credit for 100% of the price within 10 days of award. More in the summary
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This summary may miss requirements: 2 of 5 attachments weren't read (Attachment 1 - C05 Schedule of Items.xlsx, Attachment 3 - C05 Site Maps.pdf). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
Request for quotation 1240LT27Q0019 is a total small business set-aside from the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service to repair and resurface three administrative parking lots in Boulder, Idaho Springs and Fort Collins, Colorado, for the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest and Pawnee National Grassland. The work is crack sealing, pavement patching, seal coating and re-striping under one firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) award, with a stated project magnitude between $25,000 and $100,000. The response due date is November 23, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern, and the winner must give a payment bond or letter of credit for 100% of the price within 10 days of award.
Who can bid
- Be a small business: total small business set-aside under NAICS 237310 with a $45 million size standard
- Have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov)
How to submit: Email to Contract Specialist Jordan Carlsen at Jordan.Carlsen@usda.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (9)
From the version posted Oct 22, 2026.
- Serious: Small businesses only. This is a total small business set-aside under NAICS 237310, whose size standard is $45 million, so larger firms cannot bid.
- Serious: Payment bond or letter of credit due within 10 days of award. A payment bond is a surety company's promise to pay your suppliers and workers if you do not, and a letter of credit is a bank's guarantee. Either must cover 100% of the price plus a one-year period. A bond must use Standard Form 25A.
- Worth checking: Site visit on November 3 at Fort Collins. Site visit: November 3, 10:00 AM MST, at the Fort Collins Administrative Site (year not stated). Visiting is recommended, not required, and you call Steve Wood at 970-295-6751 to schedule. The other two sites are open to the public with no set visit time.
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- Worth checking: Question email address differs between .gov and .com. The instructions for questions give Jordan.Carlsen@usda.com, while the notice and other pages give Jordan.Carlsen@usda.gov. Use the .gov address or ask the contract specialist which is right.
- Worth checking: Page limit given as 3 pages and as 10 pages. The quote is limited to 3 pages not counting the Schedule of Items, but the same paragraph mentions a 10-page document criterion. The text does not say whether the schedule (Gantt chart) counts toward the limit.
- Worth checking: Short work windows at three sites in different towns. Work must be done within one week at each site, between June 15, 2027 and August 15, 2027, while the lots stay occupied by staff and the public. That means moving crews between Boulder, Idaho Springs and Fort Collins.
- Minor: Davis-Bacon wage rates apply. The Davis-Bacon Act sets minimum pay and payroll record rules for construction workers. The wage clause is listed, but the wage determination itself is not in the text read.
- Minor: Seal coat payment depends on lab tests. The Forest Service tests samples, and if the residue is too low it can require more material or reduce payment. The contractor also handles traffic control and damage repair for 10 days after treatment.
- Minor: Buy American rule for construction materials. The Buy American-Construction Materials clause is checked, which limits the use of foreign construction materials.
Read from the notice and 3 attachments. 2 of 5 not read. Show which files.
- C05 1240LT27Q0019.pdf (read)
- Attachment 4 - C05 Statement of Work.pdf (read)
- Attachment 2 - C05 FSSS.pdf (read)
- Attachment 1 - C05 Schedule of Items.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- Attachment 3 - C05 Site Maps.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Repair and resurface three administrative parking lots: clean all surfaces, fill cracks, remove and replace damaged areas, seal coat the whole surface, then re-stripe
- Follow the Forest Service Supplemental Specifications (FSSS) and the Federal Highway Standard Specifications FP-24
- For seal coating, send the emulsion mix for approval 14 days before production, apply at least 1.0 pound of residue per square yard, take at least 3 samples per project, and handle traffic control and repair of damage for 10 days after treatment
- Keep the sites working: the lots stay in use by Forest Service staff and the public, so plan strategic closures, with after-hours work only if the Forest Service approves
- Start work within 10 calendar days after the notice to proceed, finish work within one week at each site, and complete everything by August 15, 2027
- Send weekly written progress reports and submittals for all asphalt products
- Give the payment protection (payment bond or irrevocable letter of credit) within 10 days of award and cover the warranty of construction clause
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP) commercial construction; one award; combined synopsis/solicitation for a request for quotation
- Period of performance
- June 15, 2027 to August 15, 2027; begin within 10 calendar days after notice to proceed; work within one week at each site
- Place of performance
- Three Colorado sites: Boulder Ranger District Office (2140 Yarmouth Avenue, Boulder), Clear Creek Ranger District Office (101 CO-103, Idaho Springs) and Fort Collins Administrative Site (300 Hemlock, Fort Collins)
- Estimated value
- Project magnitude between $25,000 and $100,000, as the solicitation states
- How they'll choose
- Best value to the Government with no formal trade-off procedures; Technical Approach gets a confidence rating, and price must be fair and reasonable
- Offers due
- November 23, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email to Contract Specialist Jordan Carlsen at Jordan.Carlsen@usda.gov
- Page limits
- Quote: no more than 3 pages, not including the Schedule of Items; technical narrative 1 to 3 pages; Times New Roman 12-point
What they'll judge offers on
- Technical Approach: a 1 to 3 page narrative with an execution plan (key tasks, milestones, understanding of the project) and a construction schedule such as a Gantt chart; rated High, Some, Low or Neutral Confidence
- Price: every base item priced on the Excel Schedule of Items; checked for fair and reasonable under FAR 12.204
What to include when you submit
- Put the solicitation name and number in the email subject line
- Send a technical approach narrative of 1 to 3 pages with an execution plan covering key tasks and milestones; a simple statement of capabilities will not do
- Include a construction schedule (such as a Gantt chart) showing the work and key tasks within the period of performance
- Price every item on Attachment 1 - C05 Schedule of Items in the Excel file, not as a PDF
- Round each line item up to the nearest whole dollar with no cents, and make the total equal the line items
- Add your company name and Unique Entity ID (UEI) in the highlighted block at the top of the Schedule of Items
- Complete the offer section of Standard Form 1442 (SF 1442: the construction solicitation, offer and award form) and acknowledge every amendment in Block 19, or the offer is rejected
- Hold your prices firm for 60 calendar days after the response due date
- Price all items: the Government makes one award and says quotes must price all items to be considered responsive
After award, you must have
- Provide a payment bond (on the mandatory Standard Form 25A) or an irrevocable letter of credit for 100% of the contract price within 10 days of award From C05 1240LT27Q0019.pdf:
(b) The amount of the payment protection shall be 100% of the contract price.
- Pay construction wage rates under the Davis-Bacon wage clause (FAR 52.222-6), with payroll records From C05 1240LT27Q0019.pdf:
52.222-6 Construction Wage Rate Requirements (Nov 2025)
Not in the notice text
- The priced line items and quantities are in Attachment 1 - C05 Schedule of Items.xlsx, and the lot layouts are in Attachment 3 - C05 Site Maps.pdf (a scanned file); both are attached on SAM.gov but were not read.
- The Davis-Bacon wage determination number and wage rates for these Colorado counties are not in the text read.
- Whether a bid guarantee is required: the quote instructions mention bid guarantee documents, but the bid guarantee provision (FAR 52.228-1) is not checked.
- The year of the November 3 site visit is not stated.
- The Fort Collins site's ZIP code appears as 80524 in the project location and 80526 in the site visit notice; confirm with the contract specialist.
- When the notice to proceed will be issued; the continuation sheet gives June 15, 2027 to August 15, 2027 as the period of performance.
- Square footage of each lot and the amount of cracking and patching are not given in the text read.
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 237310
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to Contract Specialist Jordan Carlsen at Jordan.Carlsen@usda.gov. 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 22, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- USDA-FS, CSA Intermountain 8, Ogden, UT
- Product/service code
- Y1LB · Construction of Highways, Roads, Streets, Bridges, and Railways
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 237310)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 22, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Nov 23, 2026
- Oct 21, 2026 · SolicitationDue Nov 23, 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
This project involves the repair and resurfacing of three parking lots on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest and Pawnee National Grassland including crack sealing, pavement patching, seal coating and re-striping. NAICS code 237310 - Highway, Street, and bridge Construction as a 100% SB Set Aside. Size standard $45 Million. PSC Code Y1LB - CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS, ROADS, STREETS, BRIDGES, Questions Due: November 6th, 2026 at 14:00 Eastern Standard Time(EST). Quotes Due:November 23rd, 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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