F -- R10 A76 Trails Sudy

USDA Forest Service Alaska Region, Public Announcement of R10 A-76 Trails Study, a Standard Competition The Alaska Region of the USDA Forest Service is planning to issue a solicitation in March, 2004 for the maintenance, reconstruction and construction of approximately 900 miles of National Forest System Trails throughout the Chugach and Tongass National Forests. The performance decision date for this effort is estimated to be by June 2004. Trail maintenance work will include, but is not limited to, trail brushing, logging out, maintenance of drainage structures and other constructed features, performed on minimum cyclical schedules determined by the government. Trail reconstruction and construction will include heavy repair, replacement, or new construction of trail or trail constructed features including, but not limited to trail tread, boardwalk, puncheon, bridges, etc. The Government is currently accomplishing this work with approximately 20 (twenty) FTE’s of Government personnel and approximately 5 (five) FTE’s of leveraged resources. Once available, the solicitation will be posted on the FedBizOps website: http://www.eps.gov and all solicitation attachments resulting from this study will later be posted to the Regional Web page for download by interested parties. The web site is: http://www.fs.fed.us/r10/ro/business/comp_sourcing.