140 lanes, 31 branches, three yards, one carrier that answers the phone at 4 a.m.
Bracken asked carriers to bid 140 lanes and to say how they'd hold the 6 a.m. branch window through a building season. Sixmile bids every lane, runs the short-haul branch lanes on a dedicated fleet, and puts a dollar credit behind every missed window. This response follows the RFP's twelve sections in order.
RFP section 1. Bracken's own words first, then what Sixmile commits to.
A missed 6 a.m. truck costs a branch its morning
Bracken wrote that its branches lose the morning when a truck misses 6 a.m. Our whole bid is built to stop that.
Sixmile bids all 140 lanes at all-in rates that total $21,547,870 a year at the RFP's $3.85 base diesel, against the $23,614,348 Bracken paid on the same freight over the last twelve months.
The 78 short-haul branch lanes run on 43 dedicated tractors with drivers who learn each branch's yard. Long-haul and inbound mill lanes run one-way with committed weekly capacity. Every window we miss earns Bracken a $150 credit on the next invoice, paid without a claim form.
Weights from RFP section 5.2. Each lane is as wide as its share of the score.
"Can one carrier carry our spring, when every branch wants trucks the same week?"
Drag through Bracken's year. The gray line is the weekly volume forecast in Attachment B. The green band is what Sixmile commits, dedicated and one-way, plus a surge pool that only runs March through June.
RFP section 2. The fleet and people behind the bid, in Sixmile's own figures.
Most of our freight is lumber, drywall and roofing, and most of it arrives before sunrise.
Sixmile runs dedicated fleets for four other building materials distributors, so branch yards, jobsite staging and the spring rush are our normal week. Our Ashby and Corran terminals sit within 20 miles of two of Bracken's three yards, which is why the I-47 and I-36 West packages price the way they do.
References from three building materials shippers are in the sealed envelope, as RFP section 2.3 asks.
RFP section 3 and Attachment B. Every lane is bid. Tap a branch or a lane to read its sign. Answers criterion 1, rates and total cost, 35 percent.
"Is every lane priced the way Attachment B asked, and can we load it straight into our model?"
All 140 lanes, all-in per load at the $3.85 base diesel, with weekly committed capacity and Bracken's trailing twelve-month rate beside ours. Search, sort by any column, or export the sheet in Attachment B's column order. The full compliance matrix is in section 11.
| Lane | Origin | Destination | Type | Miles | Sixmile | Today | Loads a week |
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RFP section 4. Answers criterion 3, capacity and dedicated fleet, 15 percent, and criterion 7, transition, 5 percent.
RFP section 9.3 lets Bracken award by package. Pick the packages you'd give Sixmile and the cost, service and dedicated fleet redraw. Rates per lane don't change with award size.
"What happens at 4 a.m. when something goes wrong, and when do I hear about it?"
Pick a bad night. Each card shows what Sixmile's night desk does, minute by minute, and when Bracken finds out compared with how Bracken finds out today, from the RFP's own description.
Three waves, each live before the spring volume arrives. Branch go-live dates are in the branch tool in section 5.3.
Bracken names the packages. Sixmile names the account team the same week.
Every branch yard and the ten busiest jobsites surveyed for staging, wires and quiet hours.
Tenders, status and invoices tested against Bracken's TMS before a truck moves.
10 branches, Corran Yard lanes, 15 dedicated tractors.
11 branches, Ashby and Wexley lanes.
The last 10 branches and all mill lanes, six weeks before peak.
RFP section 5. Answers criterion 2, service and on-time, 20 percent, and criterion 4, jobsite delivery, 10 percent.
"When does my truck show up, who drives it, and what changes for my yard?"
Choose your branch. The sign assembly shows your go-live date, your dedicated trucks, your receiving window and the lanes that feed you.
RFP section 6. Answers criterion 6, technology, 5 percent.
Tenders, status and invoices move over EDI 204, 214 and 210, or our API if Bracken prefers. Nobody at a branch learns a new login.
Better than the 15 minutes RFP section 6.2 asks, on every tractor, dedicated or one-way.
On-time to the window, tender acceptance, claims and credits paid, by branch, on the first Monday of every month.
A delivery outside the window posts a $150 credit to the next invoice automatically. Bracken never files for it.
RFP section 7. Answers criterion 5, safety and compliance, 10 percent. Certificates are attached as Form C.
Per occurrence, Bracken named as additional insured. Meets 7.1.
Per load, covering loads on jobsites until signed for. Meets 7.2.
Rated Satisfactory, with no conditional rating in the last 36 months. Meets 7.3.
Every dedicated driver completes Bracken's site course before their first load. Meets 5.3.
RFP section 8. One annual figure, built from the award in 4.1 plus the options below. Every line drops on its own.
Invoiced weekly, net 45. Bars show monthly billing at Attachment B's seasonal volumes.
"What does this cost if diesel moves, and what can't move at all?"
Linehaul rates are fixed for twelve months. Fuel is the only moving part, and it moves on a published table, one cent per mile for every six cents of diesel above $1.30 a gallon. Slide the diesel price.
Diesel never moves the year-one linehaul rates, the $150 window credit, the forklift and text fees, or the 3 percent cap on the month 13 and month 25 adjustments.
RFP section 9. Plain-language terms, the three places we ask for a change and why, and what's still open.
Either side can leave with 90 days' notice after month 12. No fee for leaving.
At months 13 and 25 rates can move by at most 3 percent, up or down, and only on 60 days' written notice.
$150 per delivery outside 5:00 to 6:30 a.m. at branches, or outside the booked hour at jobsites, applied to the next invoice.
Tracking, delivery photos and scorecards stay Bracken's and are handed over in full if the contract ends.
As RFP section 9.2 asks. Fuel is shown on its own line so it can be checked against the published table.
We accept the master agreement except one clause. We ask for a mutual site-readiness clause so damage from soft or unprepared ground at a jobsite isn't carrier liability. Builders control those sites, not Bracken and not us.
We hold rates firm for twelve months as asked. For the later adjustments we'd rather tie the 3 percent cap to a published driver wage index, so it can fall as well as rise.
Lane rates stand alone at any award size. A dedicated fleet below 12 tractors can't cover driver relief, so the dedicated price needs at least two corridor packages.
Attachment B shows no Saturday volume, but branch managers told us at the site visits that spring Saturdays happen. We've priced a surge pool that covers them. Bracken may prefer to leave Saturdays out.
RFP section 10. Both addenda acknowledged, and every question the panel has sent since submission answered here, dated. Last updated October 27, 2026.
Answer. No. Garrick is fed from Corran Yard on an I-63 lane, but its dedicated truck is shared with Fallow Creek on the same run. Without I-63 that truck moves to Alder Run and Kestle, and Garrick's lanes run one-way at the rates in Attachment B.
Answer. No cap. At our committed 97 percent on time, Bracken would expect about $143,000 in credits a year across the full award. If credits pass $200,000 in any year, either side can reopen the dedicated fleet size.
Answer. Confirmed. L019, L022, L058, L061, L104 and L107 are priced at the Addendum 2 volumes, and they're flagged in the CSV export.
Acknowledged on Form B. The rate sheet in section 3 reflects it.
Acknowledged on Form B. Every service commitment in this response uses that window.
RFP section 11, Attachment C. Every requirement, our response, where it's answered, and its status. Partial and exception lines give the reason.
| Req. | Requirement | Our response | Section | Status |
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RFP section 12, Forms A to D. Signed originals travel in the sealed envelope. These pages print as the forms page of the PDF.
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Both addenda received and reflected
Certificates attached in the sealed envelope
Signed below by an officer of Sixmile
Sixmile Freight prepared these prices on its own, without consulting any other respondent, and has not disclosed them to anyone outside Sixmile.
Officer of the respondent