Solicit Your Trail Contract or Project

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Agencies, developers and landowners: Solicit contracts to or get info from PTBA’s member contractors
PTBA’s member contractors are the largest group of trail contractors in North America, yet each contractor acts independently and in competition with others.

Please use this form to submit your trail contract or project information to all of PTBA’s member contractors. You can also submit RFPs (Requests For Proposals), RFQs (Requests for Quotes), or serious inquiries as to trail project costing info.

Agreement—please read
By using this form, you agree that PTBA itself takes no responsibility or liability for anything about your project, about any bids or info you may receive from individual members, or about any subsequent actions or transactions between you and individual members. PTBA also has no financial involvement in anything that occurs between you and individual members.

Contract Solicitation/Project Information

Asterisks indicate required fields

CONTACT INFORMATION

*Contact person:

Agency/organization/company:

Mailing address:

City, State, ZIP, Country:

*Phone:

Fax:

*Email (very important):

CONTRACT/PROJECT INFO

Agencies: Fill out as a contract solicitation.
Private landowners: Provide as much info as you can about your project—the more we know, the more accurately we can work with you. You can ignore the agency-specific fields and just fill in what you know.

*Solicitation Name/Project Name:

Solicitation Number (agencies only):

*Synopsis/Project Description
Brief description (1-2 paragraphs) of the contract/project including project type; types of work; major parameters such as trail length, width and tread material, etc.
Agencies: Please copy and paste the Synopsis from your contract.
Landowners: For aspects that should be mentioned, please see the Checklist at the bottom of this form:

Pre-bid meeting
Is there a pre-bid meeting? If so, when and where?

*Project dates and duration, or timeline
Agencies: Start date and ending date/length of contract
Landowners: Suggested work season or other time limitations/requirements

Project Restrictions or challenges
If not mentioned above, please list restrictions such as designated wilderness, types of construction equipment allowed, site access restrictions, protections for threatened and/or endangered species, other wildlife/habitat protections, wetlands, riparian areas, fragile sites, unstable soils, etc.:

Project management, permitting, funding, partnerships, licensing
1. If all land and project aspects are not under your control, please explain.
2. If all necessary permits and funding are not obtained, please explain.
3. If there are partnerships with other agencies/entities or volunteers, please explain.
4. Are contractors required to have particular licensing (such as an in-state contracting license for state projects)? If so, please explain:

Sources of further information
Web site, web page or contact for contract solicitation packet, etc. You're also encouraged to email photos, file with contract solicitation, etc. to . You'll see more info on this after you submit the form.

Design assistance
If you would like trail and/or project design assistance, please explain:

Comments
Any other comments:

Checklist
If not well-known or expected, did you mention:

	Trail purpose, desired look & feel
	Types (hike, horse, bike, OHV, etc.) and amount of trail use
	Trail tread material (native soil, crushed stone, asphalt, concrete, woodchips, etc.)
	Trail structures (bridges, boardwalk, puncheon, turnpike, signs, extensive constructed drainage, culverts, retaining walls, risers or steps, drainage dips, waterbars, erosion control, etc.)
	Topography (floodplain, wetland, level, near-level, gentle slopes, moderate slopes, steep slopes, rocky, other)
	Site vegetation (wetland, riparian, grassland, savanna, light (open) forest, moderate forest, thick forest, etc.)
	Ecosystem/climate
	Site and soil stability, water problems



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