Pre-Solicitation_DEWA_310424_1.pdf

ACTION: Pre-Solicitation Notice

PRE-SOLICITATION NUMBER: 140P2026R0046

CLASSIFICATION CODE: Y1LB - Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction

FROM: CONTRACTING OFFICER: Samantha Cahill

DSC-CS Contracting Services Division

National Park Service

P.O. Box 25287

Denver, CO 80225

POINT OF CONTACT:

CONTRACTING OFFICER: Samantha_cahill@ios.doi.gov

CONTRACT SPECIALIST: dane_cooper@nps.gov

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE COUNTRY: USA

Title of Project: DEWA 310424 – Safety and Pavement Improvements to Route 209 & McDade Trail

GENERAL:

The National Park Service (NPS), Department of Interior (DOI), Denver Service Center (DSC), is soliciting proposals on a full and open basis from all interested businesses having the capability to perform the work described below. The solicitation will be issued electronically on the System for Awards Management (SAM) SAM.gov. Proposal documents will be available for download in Microsoft Word, HTML, Microsoft Excel, and Adobe PDF;

Specifications will be available in Adobe PDF format; and drawings will be available in PDF format.

Note: Paper copies of the solicitation will not be made available.

Vendors can search for opportunities and award history on www.fbo.gov without registering. SAM.gov website has an Interested Vendors List and a Watchlist where you can add your company’s interest. Registering provides the opportunity to receive notifications;

this is a tool of convenience only and does not serve as a guarantee of notification.

Interested vendors and plan holders are required to visit the website periodically to check for amendments and other changes to the synopsis or solicitation documents.

Prospective oƯerors desiring to conduct business with the DOI are required to have an active registration in the www.sam.gov. You are also required to have a UEI number in order to conduct business with the Federal Government.

This pre-solicitation announcement is not a formal solicitation document, but pre-notice of an upcoming solicitation, 140P2026R0046. Specific instructions on submitting your proposal will be contained in the solicitation documents to be issued on or after the date listed below.

Proposed Solicitation Issue Date: Estimated on/about: April 15, 2026

Contract Line Items:

1. MM 13.7 to 18.3 Pavement Preservation, PulloƯs, Shoulders, E&S and Site Restoration

2. MM 12.7 to 18.3 Pavement Preservation, PulloƯs, Shoulders, E&S and Site Restoration

3. Slope Failure, Culverts, E&S and Site Restoration

4. McDade Trail, Culvert Extensions, Headwalls, E&S and Site Restoration

5. MM 18.30 to 1930 Pavement Preservation (OPTION)

6. MM 19.30 to 20.3 Pavement Preservation (OPTION)

7. Remove Rt 209 – McDade Trail Wall from Base Bid and Replace with McDade Trail

Boardwalk at the Following Locations

8. Provide Wayfinding Signage for MM 13.7 to 20.3 MUTCD Not Included (OPTION)

9. Provide Wayfinding Signage for MM 0 to 7 MUTC Not Included (OPTION)

10. STA 172+80 to 258+80 McDade Trail Guard Rail (OPTION)

This project will address deterioration on approximately 7-miles of park-owned roadway of US Route 209 from approximately Mile post 13.7 to 20.3 with the last two miles being bid options. This work consists of milling existing pavement; conducting full depth patch repair and spot base repairs where necessary; and applying Geotextile pavement reinforcement followed by an overlay of hot mix asphalt surface course. Barriers and roadside vegetation restoration will be installed at select locations to help reduce visitor impacts to the park. Guardrail will be replaced in select areas. All MUTCD signs, and striping will be replaced.

Slope repairs and storm drain changes are included as part of the project. These include erosion and sediment control, implementing bioengineering techniques to repair slope failures, planting, regenerative outfalls, new storm drain piping, storm drain replacement and installing new headwall and outfalls at select culverts.

Additional companion work is proposed for approximately 1.6 miles of the relocation of the McDade Trail from the slope up to the existing road grade. The work starts from the Conashaugh Tailhead at MP 16.16 and continues along rt 209 to approximately MP 17.6 before tying into an old road scar for approximately 1000 feet to the McCarty Stream Pedestrian Bridge. The proposed trail width is 6-feet wide with some sections on grade, on grade with gravity wall and cantilever boardwalk to bridge the steep slopes.

The replacement of wayfinding signs for mile marker 0 to 7 and then from 13.7 to 20.3 are bid options.

Estimated Price Range: More than $10M

Estimated Period of Performance: 540 calendar days (if all work is completed in the same calendar year, not inclusive of a winter shutdown).

Proposal receipt date is not known at this time. The actual date will be established in the solicitation documents

A pre-proposal meeting may be posted and date/location will be noted in the solicitation or a forthcoming amendment.

This procurement will be competed using a Small Business Set-Aside contracting method.

All responsible sources may submit an oƯer which, if submitted in a timely manner, will be considered. It is the policy of the government to provide maximum practicable opportunities in its acquisitions to small business, veteran-owned small business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business concerns. Such concerns must also have the maximum practicable opportunity to participate as subcontractors in the contracts awarded by any executive agency, consistent with eƯicient contract performance. All oƯerors are strongly encouraged to contact their local Small Business Administration OƯice, to post their need for qualified subcontractors at http://www.sba.gov .