Acad - replace great meadow culvert

The National Park Service Northeast Region is seeking a small business contractor to replace the Great Meadow Culvert at Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine. The project involves furnishing all materials, labor, equipment, and supervision to replace an existing reinforced concrete pipe culvert with a new precast concrete box culvert that incorporates a stream simulation channel bottom to enhance wildlife habitat connectivity. The government will evaluate proposals using a best value tradeoff process, considering technical approach, experience, management approach, past performance, and price, with non-price factors being approximately equal in importance to price. Proposals are due by February 5, 2025, at 3:00 PM EST, with a site visit originally scheduled for January 8, 2025, and additional site visits on January 16 and January 27, 2025. Contractors must provide performance and payment bonds at 100% of the contract value and adhere to Davis-Bacon wage determination requirements for highway construction in Hancock County, Maine.

The solicitation is a total small business set-aside with an estimated contract value between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. The period of performance is 365 calendar days from the notice to proceed, specifically from March 3, 2025, to March 6, 2026, with work to begin within 14 days after the notice to proceed. The project location is in Maine, with specific work to be conducted at Great Meadow in Acadia National Park along Park Loop Road. The contract requires replacing a 36-inch concrete culvert with a 12'x8' precast concrete box culvert, including stream restoration, landscape improvements, and construction of a nature-like weir. Contractors must use 5,000 psi concrete with plain reinforcing steel, potentially use cast-in-place wingwalls, and follow specific planting and trail construction specifications that include using native plants and a Rockefeller Mix surface with aggregate subbase.