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California, Mormon Pioneer, Oregon, and Pony Express National Historic Trail Exhibits at Camp Guernsey, Wyoming Scope of Work

PURPOSE

The National Park Service (NPS)-- National Trails Office (NTIR) is soliciting for the development, illustration, and production of nine wayside panels for location in and around Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center, and related to the California, Mormon Pioneer, Oregon, and Pony Express national historic trails.

Requested services shall be provided in one phase as described in this RFQ. The services will involve the design and fabrication of five low-profile interpretive panels and four upright orientation/informational exhibit panels. For each panel, the following deliverables will be created: 508 compliant PDF of the panel’s final design, audio described text, final InDesign files packaged for fabrication, and fabrication of panels to fit existing Pannier Graphics frames. Requested services additional include providing wayside location information and wayside content for each publicly accessible wayside to populate the National Park Service’s website and app.

Background General Congress amended the National Trails System Act, hereinafter the Act, to authorize and establish the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail (NHT) and the Oregon NHT on November 10, 1978, and the California NHT and the Pony Express NHT on August 3,1992 as components of the National Trails System (NTS) (16 U.S.C. 1241). The Secretary of the Interior was assigned administrative responsibility of the NHTs.

The Act provides that, when determined to be in the public interest, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into written cooperative agreements with public agencies, private organizations, and individuals to operate, develop, and/or maintain any portion of a national historic trail either within or outside a federally administered area, and that such agreements may include provisions for limited financial assistance.

The Secretary of the Interior has delegated overall administrative responsibility for the NHTs to NTIR, an office of the NPS. A combined comprehensive management and use plan and management and use plan update for the California, Mormon Pioneer, Oregon and Pony Express NHTs was completed in 1999. The NPS is responsible at the federal level for carrying out the provisions of the Act as they relate to the NHTs by coordinating, stimulating, and guiding the efforts of others to operate, develop, and maintain the NHTs in accordance with the Plan. The Plan focuses on providing opportunities for the public to retrace the route, for public understanding of the significance of the route and related sites through interpretation, and for preservation and protection of the trail resources.

The Mormon Pioneer NHT commemorates the route from Nauvoo, Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley (Utah) traveled by Brigham Young and over 10,000 followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Forced out of Nauvoo, these Mormon Pioneers departed in three different waves in 1846. They traveled in a manner closer to a military procession than a wagon train. They were self-led, divided into companies, subdivided into groups, and had clear lines of authority. They arrived at the site of their Church’s new home in Utah in 1847.

The Oregon NHT was the primary route used by emigrants to reach the Oregon Country from the eastern expanse of mid-1800s America. Missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and Henry and Eliza Spalding joined an 1836 fur brigade from St. Louis, Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley beginning the exodus to Oregon. It was the first trail that allowed families to move with wheeled vehicles across an area perceived as impassible. Between 1840 and 1869, more than 700,000 people journeyed west on the Oregon Trail, lured by the promise of free and fertile land and the opportunity to start anew.

The California NHT comprises the primary routes used by miners, settlers, and others to travel from several locations along the Mississippi River to California during the California Gold Rush. The migration began with the discovery of gold at John Sutter’s mill in 1849. The core of the travelers were young, single men hoping to strike it rich in the gold fields. Often, they returned home after their time in California. They used the same routes they initially followed, creating a significant amount of two-way travel along this trail.

The Pony Express NHT is the route Pony Express riders used to rapidly deliver mail from the eastern United States to the West. Along the route are the more than 150 stations used to support the riders. The Pony Express sprang to life in 1860. Mail from the east was gathered in St. Joseph, Missouri and given to a rider for delivery. After a set distance, the mail was passed to a new rider to carry. This was repeated dozens of times until the mail reached California just 10 days later. The Pony Express unified the country during the time of the Civil War, proved a central overland communication route was viable, and laid the groundwork for the transcontinental telegraph and railroad.

Project Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center is an important regional military site managed by the Wyoming Military Department for training Wyoming Army National Guard units. Camp Guernsey also houses resident US Air Force units and hosts training events for Department of Defense and state agencies. It consists of more than 78,000 acres that are divided into two training areas, the North Training Area (NTA) and the South Training Area (STA); Wyoming Highway 26 separates the two areas. The land is the property of the Wyoming Military Department and the Department of Defense.

Officially designated as a Maneuver Training Center-Heavy, the site consists of live firing ranges and taskforce-level training lands for multiple battalions. In addition, the site also contains a Wyoming Game and Fish Department wildlife management area and is part of the department’s Walk-In Fishing Area Program. While this is not a site where the public can just stop by and explore at their leisure, it is very busy. The base has an annual average of 240,000 person-day of combat training and is frequently visited by people who hunt and/or fish.

The site has a long list of uses before it became the Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center. This includes being located on the routes of the California Trail, the Mormon Pioneer Trail, the Oregon Trail, and the Pony Express Trail. The NTA contains pristine ruts and emigrant graves associated with the California National Historic Trail. The STA contains trail-related resources for the California, Mormon Pioneer, Oregon, and Pony Express NHTs. This project is for wayside exhibits about these NHTs only; additional historical uses and resources located at the military sites, while significant, will not be addressed with this project.

NTIR has worked closely with Wyoming Military Department (Wyoming Army National Guard) cultural resource staff, hereinafter Wyoming Military Department staff, since the project’s initiation in 2015. The previously completed project items include determining the wayside panel size, type, and quantity; and the purchasing, fabricating, and shipping of the exhibit bases. The bases are uninstalled and stored at Camp Guernsey. The wayside exhibit panels developed for this quote must adhere to the following sizes, types, and quantities. NTIR will assist with obtaining exact specifications from Pannier Graphics for each frame and base.

The contractor will be required to coordinate with Wyoming Military Department (WMD) staff throughout the project. They will be on hand during the site visit and will supply much of the background information for each site. They may also provide images or artwork for use on the waysides. Any input, comments, requests received from WMD, that may have an impact on this SOW and the relating contract, shall be confirmed with the CO and/or COR prior to their implementation.

SCOPE OF WORK

The contractor shall provide all labor, materials, equipment, facilities, and travel necessary to plan and design five low-profile exhibit panels and four upright panels for the California, Mormon Pioneer, Oregon and Pony Express national historic trails. The exhibits will interpret the significance and relationship of cultural NHT resources based on the NHT interpretive themes and historical significance as stated in the NHTs’ 1999 Comprehensive Management and Use Plan and Management and Use Plan Update.

Project to be completed no later than 14 months after date of award.

Place Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center is located just west of Fort Laramie National Historic Site, in the town of Guernsey, Wyoming. After leaving Scotts Bluff (in western Nebraska), emigrants followed the North Platte River and headed toward Laramie Peak, a landmark near Casper, Wyoming. During this section of their journey, they passed through the land that is now part of Camp Guernsey. The increasingly rugged terrain foreshadowed the remainder of the journey west after crossing the relatively flat central plains. The closest airports are the regional airports: Casper/Natrona County Airport in Caspar, Wyoming and Western Nebraska Regional Airport in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The closest major airport is in Denver, 200 miles south of Camp Guernsey.

Previous project work has identified preferred locations of the wayside exhibits including but not limited to the Visitor Center/ Billeting Office, Register Cliff Road, South Guernsey Road, Multipurpose Machine Gun (MPMG) Range, and Emigrant Grave. These locations are within the Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center and located on private property. Wayside locations will be finalized during the initial post-award site visit. Previously determined locations may be changed and new locations selected, in consultation with NTIR and Wyoming Military Department staff. Final locations will need the approval of the primary landowner, the Wyoming Military Department. Wayside topics may be adjusted to capitalize on NHT related thematic opportunities and/or relevant orientation information identified at each of the final locations.

Specifically, the exhibits will interpret a series of places and events along the California, Mormon Pioneer, Oregon and Pony Express NHTs within the Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center area.

Specific Core Line-Item Tasks Post-Award Project initiation meeting.

Site visit and analysis (trip length estimate: three-days, two-nights).

Images and a list of amenities for each unique exhibit site.

Research.

Wayside exhibit design proposal.

Wayside and orientation exhibit plan, including 60% and 90% plans for review by NTIR and the Wyoming Military Department staff, and the final package.

Design, production, and delivery of five low profile wayside panels, and four upright panels with the following Project Wayside Exhibit Locations and Topics identified as needs and/or opportunities to interpret related themes and resources:

Location 1: Visitor Center/ Billeting Office Wayside Exhibit Panel Number One Size (w x h): 36” x 48” Wayside Base: Upright Topic: Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center orientation and introduction for both military and public audiences Wayside Exhibit Panel Number Two Size (w x h): 36” x 48” Wayside Base: Upright Topic: Orientation and Introduction to the National Historic Trails Location 2: Register Cliff Road Wayside Exhibit Panel Size (w x h): 42”x24” Wayside Base: Low profile Topic: Pony Express National Historic Trail Location 3: South Guernsey Road Wayside Exhibit Panel Size (w x h): 42”x24” Wayside Base: Low profile Topic: California NHT and the diversity of the NHT’s travelers and modern users of Camp Guernsey Location 4: MPMG Range Wayside Exhibit Panel Size (w x h): 42” x 24” Wayside Base: Low Profile Topic: Historic Preservation and visible remnants of the trail on the landscape.

Location 5: Emigrant Grave Wayside Exhibit Panel Size (w x h): 42”x24” Wayside Base: Low profile Topic: Death on the NHTs, including the NHT graves just outside of Camp Guernsey’s northern boundary Location for one low profile, and two upright panels to be determined Location and topics will be selected in consultation with, and approved by, NTIR staff.

Sizes (w x h): one 42”x24” and two 36” x 48” Potential topics for these three remaining panels:

Information about the NHT field markers at Camp Guernsey (what they mean and why to comply with them) Child’s Route of the California Trail Laramie Peak significance for Native Americans and tribal artifacts found at Camp Guernsey Laramie Peak significance for explorers and emigrants Graphic artwork.

Audio description text for each unique exhibit’s graphics and verbatim text.

Physical site description for the visually impaired for each unique exhibit site.

Digital file preparation for the Wayside Final Design files and 508-compliant PDFs of waysides.

Panel fabrication and shipping to a location to be determined by NTIR staff.

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES (REQUIREMents) Travel and Meetings Post-Award Conference Calls:

The contractor shall participate in a post-award conference call with the Contracting Officer and Contracting Officers Representative (COR) to prepare for the project. This conference call shall last no more than one hour.

The contractor shall participate in a post-award conference call with the COR, NTIR staff, and Wyoming Military Department staff for the purpose of making site visit planning arrangements. This conference call shall last no more than one hour.

Post-Award Site Visit:

One or more planners or designers shall travel to Guernsey, Wyoming for a minimum of a three-days, two-nights site visit to the identified sites on the California, Mormon Pioneer, Oregon and Pony Express NHTs within Camp Guernsey. The contractor shall meet with the NTIR staff and Wyoming Military Department staff, determine final wayside exhibit locations, obtain information, and take site photos for each potential unique wayside panel.

The contractor shall provide a trip report to the Contracting Officers Representative outlining the site visit meeting, consisting of minutes of the meeting that highlights significant decisions.

Deliverables and Destination Points All final deliverables shall be produced in compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended (29 USC §794 (d)) and in adherence with regulations developed by the Act’s governing body, the Access Board, and codified in 36 CFR Parts 1193 and 1194. NTIR may also provide guidance on 508 accessibility requirements if needed.

The contractor shall submit to NTIR all the following items:

Trip Report

- One PDF copy Wayside Exhibit Design Proposal

- One PDF copy Graphic Source List

- One PDF copy Wayside Maps and Illustrations

- One PDF copy Wayside Exhibits at 60% and 90% completion

- One PDF copy for both 60% and 90% submittals

- One set of 11x17 color prints for both 60% and 90% submittals Wayside Final Design

- One PDF copy

- One set of full-size color prints Wayside Close-Out Package

- All government-furnished items

- Any NPS or Wyoming Military Department staff-furnished items loaned to contractor

- Final packaged InDesign folder with all graphics, zipped, and supplied and supplied through a secure website

- Audio description text for each unique exhibit to describe its location, the graphics, and verbatim text

- Section 508-compliant PDFs of waysides for digital or website use

- PDF of all graphics’ use rights

- All source files (raw, unedited)

- Wayside exhibit location information and content necessary for populating the NPS website and app Panel fabrication Shipped to:

Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center Guernsey, WY 82214 The Contractor Shall Send Deliverables To:

NTIR Contracting Officers Representative (COR): Bryan Petrtyl bryan_r_petrtyl@nps.gov Contracting Officer (CO): Sam Hyslop samuel_hyslop@nps.gov NTIR Interpretation Team Lead: Paula_Ogden-Muse@nps.gov ***All sent deliverables shall include the COR/CO in the correspondence. All input provided not sent from the COR/CO shall be confirmed by the COR/CO prior to implementation. *** Return of government-furnished items and/or any hard-copy materials shall be sent to:

Attn: Paula Ogden-Muse National Trails National Park Service 1100 Old Santa Fe Trail Santa Fe, NM 87505

OPERATING CONSTRAINTS

These wayside exhibits and other products shall be developed in accordance with the following:

Planning and Design:

Contractor shall plan and design nine exhibits consisting of five 42 in. wide x 24 in. high low-profile interpretive waysides, two 36 in. wide x 48 in. high upright and wall mounted interpretation waysides, and two 36 in. wide x 48 in. high upright orientation waysides.

Contractor shall be responsible for all text.

Contractor shall be responsible for consulting with NTIR for all design and content material. Any matters that have or potentially may have an impact on the SOW and its contract shall be confirmed with the COR/CO prior to implementation.

Characteristics of the exhibits will include:

Both low profile and upright interpretation panels will be as site specific as possible.

Upright orientation panels will be used at sites with less specific visual features Design standards, elements, and approach for NPS sites as specified in the 2009 Wayside Exhibits: A Guide to Developing Outdoor Interpretive Exhibits http://www.nps.gov/hfc/products/waysides/way-guide.cfm.These specifications will be combined with NTIR Interpretive Media Standards which will be provided to the contractor.

Exhibits themselves will meet ADA requirements (sites themselves may not).

All content shall be presented in English Text will follow NPS Style Guides and use principles of interpretive writing.

Text will be limited to approximately 100 words for primary text per panel.

Text will use NPS-supplied Frutiger LT Standard font and NPS Rawlinson Open-Type Two font.

Panel content will be sensitive to archeological sites. NTIR and Wyoming Military Department staff will review and approve all content.

Maps and Illustrations:

The Contractor shall create two new maps, acquire up to 18 images, and create up to five full-size and full-color illustrations for the project’s waysides. The Images and illustrations shall be site specific to waysides defined during the site visit. The images and illustrations may show trail travelers, traders, and emigrants in period outfits; their oxen, other animals, and loaded wagons; soldiers; Native Americans indigenous to the region during the trails’ periods of significance; historic structures; or other settings that help illustrate the scene and assist the public in being able to find the significant landscape features when the NHTs were active.

The Contractor shall be responsible for researching the historical details for the illustrations. NTIR and Wyoming Military Department staff may contribute reference materials and historical documentation. A minimum of two illustrations for low profile waysides shall be a full bleed to cover an entire wayside panel at 42-inches wide. Additional illustrations needed for other low-profile waysides and for upright wayside may be smaller and may not need to cover the entire panel. Historical or modern maps may be needed to provide context.

Contractor shall bring an illustrator on the site visit.

Setting/Points of View:

To be determined during the post-award site visit and in consultation with NTIR and Wyoming Military Department staff. The primary landowner, Wyoming Military Department staff will approve the final decision for each wayside location at the post-award site visit.

Digital Output:

Digital file resources at a minimum of 300 dpi at full wayside width shall be submitted for the deliverable for any illustrations. The government shall have complete copyright and content ownership of the final artwork. The physical illustrations are not required and shall remain in the ownership of the artist.

Graphics and Use Rights:

Research shall include, but is not limited to, locating copyright owners, securing use rights for the life of the exhibit and for digital use of the material, and providing documentation of use rights. The contractor shall review all graphics for quality and usability, and provide a Graphic Source List, to include, but not limited to, government-furnished images acceptable for use, government-furnished images not acceptable and why, and additional non-government-source images needed. The contractor shall provide high quality scans with appropriate resolution of all non-NPS sourced hard copy images.

Provided Materials and Services NTIR, in conjunction with Wyoming Military Department staff, will provide the following materials or services for the project:

All 508-compliance guidance documents Historical research materials and subject matter content Assist with identifying and securing use of appropriate maps, illustrations, and graphics GIS services for any needed map development Installation of all wayside exhibits (provided by landowner) Content experts Review of all content for interpretive approach, historical accuracy, and archeological sensitivity

OPTIONAL LINE ITEMS

Original illustrations for low profile waysides shall be a full bleed to cover an entire wayside panel at 42-inches wide. Illustrations for upright waysides may be smaller and may not need to cover the entire panel.

1. Highly detailed imagined landscape or scene: These original illustrations may show historic structures or other settings that help illustrate the scene and assist the public in being able to find the significant landscape features when the NHTs were active.

2. Highly detailed imagined landscape or scene with many people: These original illustrations may show trail travelers, traders, and emigrants in period outfits; their oxen, other animals, and loaded wagons; soldiers; Native Americans indigenous to the region during the trails’ periods of significance; historic structures or other settings that help illustrate the scene and assist the public in being able to find the significant landscape features when the NHTs were active.

The Contractor shall be responsible for researching the historical details for the illustrations. NTIR and Wyoming Military Department staff may contribute reference materials and historical documentation.

REFERENCES

California National Historic Trail NPS Website: https://www.nps.gov/cali/index.htm Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail NPS Website: https://www.nps.gov/mopi/index.htm Oregon National Historic Trail NPS Website: https://www.nps.gov/oreg/index.htm Pony Express National Historic Trail NPS Website: https://www.nps.gov/poex/index.htm Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center Website:

https://www.wyomilitary.wyo.gov/about-us/joint/camp-guernsey-joint-training-center/camp-guernsey-operations/ Comprehensive Management and Use Plan, California and Pony Express National Historic Trails and Management and Use Plan Update, Oregon and Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trails https://www.nps.gov/oreg/getinvolved/upload/Comprehensive_Management_Plan-508.pdf