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237United States Department of the Interior

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

DENVER SERVICE CENTER

CONTRACTING SERVICES

1 DENVER FEDERAL CENTER, BUILDING 50

P.O. BOX 25287

DENVER, COLORADO 80225-0287

File Code: A14

D5217 (DSC-CS)

BAND/266697

140P2025R0072

Date: May 2, 2025

To: General Public (Via the Government’s Pont of Entry)

From: Joseph Halter, Contracting Officer, National Park Service, BSAD

Subject: Sources Sought Notice

Reference: BAND 266697, Rehabilitate Underground Utilities

** This is a SSN for the purpose of conducting Market Research. Proposals are NOT being requested, nor accepted at this time. Responses are being requested from both Large and Small Businesses. **

1. Purpose:

a. The purpose of this SSN is to gain knowledge regarding the types of interested businesses and their qualifications. Information obtained through this SSN by the NPS will be utilized to develop the acquisition strategy. The amount of interest, or lack thereof, will determine the possibility of a Small Business or other Socio-Economic Set-Aside for solicitation and award purposes. Analysis of the quality of responses to this SSN will be considered in the Market Research being conducted and in the making of any set-aside determination for this requirement.;

b. The Government anticipates conducting a competitive acquisition for this requirement. The amount of interest or lack thereof will determine the possibility of a small business or other socio-economical small business set-aside for the solicitation. Analysis of the quality of responses to this source sought announcement will be considered in the market research being conducted, and in the making of any small business set-aside determination for this requirement; and

c. No solicitation, proposal package, specifications, or drawings are available with this SSN.

2. Cost Reimbursement: Response to this announcement is strictly voluntary. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this SSN, nor any follow-up information requests.

3. Bonding: Bid, Performance, and Payment Bonds are anticipated to be required.

4. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code: 237110 and Size Standard: $39.5M

Project Description: 2:

a. Magnitude of construction is more than $10,000,000.

b. The surrounding area is rural with limited staging

c. The construction site is 59 miles from nearest suppliers and lodging facilities located at Sante Fe, NM.

d. The anticipated period of performance of 910 calendar days including any potential weather shutdown;

e. Winter construction may be required.

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Project Scope: Reconstruct and or replace all utility distribution and collection systems to address deferred maintenance and code deficiencies on 60 plus year old systems. Utilities included are underground potable water lateral service lines and the distribution mains for required fire flow and storage; electrical and natural gas distribution to meet current and projected demand; and replace communication systems infrastructure. Primary electrical will be replaced to areas not addressed by the 2017 primary electrical service project (which went to Frijoles Canyon development only). Rehabilitate existing sewer collection mains and replace all secondary sewer lateral lines to include manholes.

Design will incorporate an integrated utility corridor utilizing existing utility corridors and road prisms shoulders and/or under roads to maintain code required separation horizontally and vertically, while mitigating impact to sensitive natural and cultural resource areas. Construct sewage lift station to enable reopening of restroom across from Frijoles Creek. Remove or abandon in place old infrastructure that is most sensitive to natural and cultural resources and allow efficient and effective future operations; demolish Frijoles Canyon water tank and exposed gas and water lines suspended over a cliff.

The monument is primarily geographically split into two distinct areas or districts, the mesa, and the canyon. Each of these areas have infrastructure deficiencies and connectivity and integration of this infrastructure to best support both districts is a key objective of this project. Below is a brief synopsis of the infrastructure systems as design, built and operated today.

Water System: The monument does not permit and operate a water treatment plant; water is provided by municipality to a 35,000-gallon tank that it maintains outside of the monument boundary. Water flows via gravity to secondary 20,000 gallon buried concrete tank in the monument, controlled by solenoid valve and set points of sensor in tank. Water then flows via gravity to remainder of the system where there are unbalanced pressure zones and disinfection residuals are difficult to maintain for operators between high peak visitation and lower shoulder season visitation.

To avoid concerns of water age while addressing the need for fire flows, a second water storage tank and dedicated supply line for future expansion of the sprinkler system in the Frijoles Canyon area, will be designed.

Wastewater: The wastewater system is primarily gravity flow collection system with lagoons in several location within the monument boundaries; there are two lift stations within the system. The primary (larger is size and capacity) pumps the canyon’s administrative area to the lagoons. The mesa area is all gravity flow to the lagoons.

Power: The monument owns and operates its power system at/near park boundary and has several different services from the power company providing power. A LIC project in 2017 to rehabilitate most of its power system.

Most of the power is underground and the remaining of the power is scoped to be installed underground. There are frequent power outages in campgrounds and is suspected to be on an old single-phase service that was not part of the 2017 project.

Gas: The monument is served by municipal natural gas and the service enters the monument boundary in proximity of the water service and generally follows the water main alignment to the canyon. Several areas are not served by the underground service, other areas are in exposed steep cliff terrain that make the infrastructure vulnerable to rockslides and wildfire events. There are several sections of gas main that are prone to leak and causes frequent emergency repairs.

Telecommunications: The monument does not have an integrated communication system and lacks the capacity to provide underground fiber to the whole monument operations. Several repairs, reconfigurations, and connectivity connection from the mesa to the canyon is needed.

There is one known potentially contaminated area (Frijoles Canyon) that was used historically for chemical handing where a spill occurred many years ago that may still be within the project area that will need to be tested and classified to understand what action is required if any.

5. Solicitation: At this time, NPS DSC anticipates issuing a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP) around the June 2, 2025; and awarding a single Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract.

Submittal Instructions: Interested (small and large) businesses should submit the following information:

(1) Company name, DUNS number, address, point of contact, telephone number, and email address.

(2) Business type: Classification as a Large or Small Business under the above listed NAICS, Small Business

Administration (SBA) certified Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), Veteran-Owned Small

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Businesses (VOSB), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB), SBA certified Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business (EDWOSB). The size of a small business firm includes all parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, etc.—see 13 CFR 121.108.) Misrepresentation of size status can result in penalties.

(3) Statement regarding your company’s bonding capacity. Letters from bonding companies are not required at this time.

(4) Information demonstrating experience and capability on projects of same or similar size, scope and magnitude, and constructed under similar conditions.

(5) In addition businesses may submit existing marketing materials such as capability statements and brochures.

Submittal Due Date/Time: May 19, 2025/2:30 PM Mountain Time

Submit To: Contracting Officer, joseph_halter@nps.gov and bruce_beck@nps.gov