RFQ - General Contractors/Defensible Space Contractors for FEMA-Funded Wildfire Home Hardening Program

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Licensed general contractors and defensible space contractors invited to qualify for work on approximately 100 Colfax homes; Letters of Interest due November 20 COLFAX, Calif. — The City of Colfax today issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) inviting licensed contractors to join two lists of pre-qualified vendors for the Colfax Home Hardening and Defensible Space Program, a wildfire mitigation effort funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and administered through the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. The Program will retrofit approximately 100 homes within the Colfax city limits with ignition-resistant roofing, vents, windows, doors, siding, and gutters, and will create code-compliant defensible space around each home. The 2021 River Fire, which burned to the edge of the City, demonstrated how quickly an ember-driven wildfire can threaten an entire community. The City is establishing two contractor lists: • List A — Gene