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Project Title: Tutka Backdoor Access and Continuity
Project Solicitation Number (if any): Phase 2
Project Description: Provide Trail Construction leadership and training for using native stone to build stairs and routes around remote cliffs in a wilderness park near Homer, Alaska.
Company/Organization/Agency Submitting Contract: Ground Truth Trekking is applying for a Recreational Trail Program grant, due October 14, 2017
Primary Contact for Contract Information: Kevin Walker
Email Address: homerkev@gmail.com
Closest City to Project: Seldovia, Alaska
State/Province/Region: Alaska / Kenai Peninsula / Kachemak Bay
Country: USA
Pre-Bid Meeting Date: 10/12/2017
Pre-Bid Meeting Time:
Anticipated Project Start Date: 7/5/2018
Application Deadline: 10/12/2017
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We are having difficulty finding qualified contractors - and our deadline for proposals is this weekend!
Ground Truth Trekking (GTT) would appreciate a rough dollar / field day rate for one or two experts willing to work with a group of volunteers. Ultimately, we could put rockwork on 5 miles of terrain, but for next year several hundred feet of the highest-priority sections would be great. One priority section is about 300 feet with a climb of around 100 feet, mostly on hard rock with thin wet soils, and limited nearby boulders. I expect our approach here will have to be very opportunistic, and I can't imagine you could give a solid estimate without surveying the site yourself. Hence I'd rather hear what it'd cost you to put in per day, rather than what it'd cost total.
The component of working with volunteers is critical as well - we have some great volunteers, a few with some excellent rockwork experience, but most with none (myself included.) We want a contractor who will utilize our volunteers to get work done, and simultaneously teach those volunteers so they can continue the work afterwards.
Related to this - we are budgeting to purchase equipment. We do have a close relationship with Kachemak Bay State Park and Wilderness Area, but their equipment is typically unavailable to us simply because we're an independent operation and they have their own things going on.
If you provide your costs to get to Homer, AK, that would be great, but we can probably figure that out too. We will figure out the logistics to get into the field, set up a group camp, and so on. We can provide boat transportation from Homer to the trailhead, and the rock work is about 1-3 miles inland over an existing trail.