The National Park Service awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract to Edquist, Davis, Exhibits, Inc. doing business as E D X, with a potential value of $25,000,000 over five years. The contract provides museum interpretive exhibit planning and design services to parks nationwide, including assistance rehabilitating or replacing outdated exhibits and producing new displays. Delivery orders issued against the contract include exhibit plans and designs for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park valued at $301,840, John F. Kennedy National Historic Site valued at $68,216, and Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park valued at $188,765. The National Park Service aims to enhance visitor experience and understanding through refreshed interpretive exhibits under this contract vehicle.
Originally the National Park Service indicated intent to award multiple ID/IQ contracts through a total small business set-aside competition to provide similar planning and design services for a five-year period. The solicitation planned for April 2021 anticipated proposals from firms with a size standard of $8 million or less to support the agency's mission of preserving natural and cultural resources through interpretive museum exhibits.