# Coweeta Lawn Care and Grounds Maintenance

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/12445025q0011

- Solicitation number: 12445025Q0011
- Notice type: Award notice (first published as combined synopsis and solicitation)
- Status: Awarded to Forster Ridge Contracting, LLC for $127,870.00
- Department: Department of Agriculture
- Agency: Forest Service
- Contracting office: Usda-Fs, Csa East 10 (124450)
- NAICS: 561730 Landscaping Services
- Product or service code: S208 Landscaping/Groundskeeping Services
- Set-aside: Total small business set-aside
- Place of performance: Otto, North Carolina
- County: Macon County (FIPS 37113). https://abierto.us/counties/macon-county-nc-37113
- First posted: May 23, 2025
- Last posted: July 17, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/567e33b95984448e8b30cb5de10230e3/view

## Description

**UPDATE:** To update Offer submit due DATE, Now to read Friday, 20th June 2025 at 1159PM.

**UPDATE:** To attach updated Map (updated June 2025) USDA Forest Services requires grounds maintenance for the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory located at 3160 Coweeta Lab Road, Otto, NC. The Contractor shall provide all labor, supplies, supervision, tools, materials, equipment, and transportation necessary to provide grounds maintenance. Anticipated starting date from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026. Plus 4 Option Years.

The quoters shall submit their quote to Harkley, Heather, by email at heather.harkley@usda.gov no later than June 19th, 2025, at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. It is the quoter's responsibility to confirm receipt of the quote. Quoters must have an active entity registration in the System for Award Management in order to submit a quote. https://SAM.gov.

Government Point of Contact The primary Point of Contact (POC) is Joel Scott, who can be reached at joel.l.scott@usda.gov, and the alternate POC is Contracting Officer Nestor Rivera Gonzalez, by email at nestor.riveragonzalez@usda.gov (xvii) Site Visit A formal site visit will be held on June 16th, 2025, at 0900 AM Eastern Standard Time. The site visit will be held at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory located at 3160 Coweeta Lab Road, Otto, NC. The Point of Contact (POC) is Joel Scott and can be reached by phone at 828-524-2128, or by email at joel.l.scott@usda.gov.

**IMPORTANT:** FILL OUT ATTACHMENT 2 SOI (SCHEDULE OF ITEMS)

**AND Attach 3 Experience Questionaire CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS:** 4.0 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS (SEE ATTACHED SOW SECTION 4) “System updates may lag policy updates. The System for Award Management (SAM) may continue to require entities to complete representations based on provisions that are not included in agency solicitations. Examples include 52.222-25, Affirmative Action Compliance, and paragraph (d) of 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.

Contracting officers will not consider these representations when making award decisions or enforce requirements. Entities are not required to, nor are they able to, update their entity registration to remove these representations in SAM.”

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Forster Ridge Contracting, LLC (UEI L9GHQZ733ZU3)
- Contract: 12445025P0010, purchase order
- Obligated: $38,670.00
- Competition: Competed Under SAP, 7 offers received
- Link: award number 12445025P0010 equals the contract number; same awarding office 124450 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_12445025P0010_12C2_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- May 23, 2025: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due June 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT. Notice a062fbab58bd459e8acc204ba185892f. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/a062fbab58bd459e8acc204ba185892f/view
- May 24, 2025: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due June 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT. Notice 38f9ed19d03840e9bc4e5f8e05149930. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/38f9ed19d03840e9bc4e5f8e05149930/view
- May 28, 2025: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due June 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT. Notice e73ad1b249a04d13a5ee7d28bf1bde42. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/e73ad1b249a04d13a5ee7d28bf1bde42/view
- June 6, 2025: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due June 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT. Notice 79ff7246770e464484d613f57e88c385. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/79ff7246770e464484d613f57e88c385/view
- June 6, 2025: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due June 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT. Notice de80dddd2e824bf4825036a3511695a2. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/de80dddd2e824bf4825036a3511695a2/view
- June 10, 2025: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due June 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT. Notice 3e7bef9a91f84d829a6c3f522418a96e. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/3e7bef9a91f84d829a6c3f522418a96e/view
- June 18, 2025: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due June 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT. Notice 4423f3e98600417381fd1c054581cd72. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/4423f3e98600417381fd1c054581cd72/view
- July 17, 2025: Award notice. Notice 567e33b95984448e8b30cb5de10230e3. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/567e33b95984448e8b30cb5de10230e3/view

## Points of contact

- Heather Harkley, heather.harkley@usda.gov
- Nestor Rivera Gonzalez, nestor.riveragonzalez@usda.gov

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