Heart MTN. Class III cultural survey

The Bureau of Reclamation seeks a firm-fixed-price contract for a Class III cultural resource inventory survey of 73.93 acres at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Park County, Wyoming, with quotations due July 8, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. MDT. The procurement is set aside for total small business under NAICS 541620, with a size standard of $19 million. Amendments 0001, 0002, and 0003 have been issued as of July 1, 2026; offerors must acknowledge receipt of all amendments by the quotation deadline or risk rejection.

Place of performance is the Heart Mountain Relocation Center site boundary in Park County, Wyoming (48PA229), located in Township 54 N., Range 100 W., Section 7, with delivery to the Bureau of Reclamation Wyoming Area Office in Mills, Wyoming and the BLM Cody Field Office. The contractor must conduct an intensive field inventory following Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office standards with 30-meter maximum transect spacing, complete a file search through WyoTrack, record all cultural resources using Wyoming Cultural Property Forms and Isolated Resource Forms, evaluate all resources for National Register of Historic Places eligibility under all four criteria, and provide GPS mapping of diagnostic artifacts and features. The contractor is solely responsible for obtaining a Permit for Archaeological Investigations from Reclamation's Missouri Basin Region and must comply with all standard stipulations, including $100,000 minimum workers compensation, $500,000 general liability per occurrence, and $200,000 automobile liability per person. Period of performance runs July 17 through September 30, 2026. Draft report is due 60 days post-award; final report is due 30 days after draft review. Deliverables include Section 508-compliant digital copies (MS Word, PDF, ArcGIS) and one printed hard copy. Quotations must remain valid for 90 days. Evaluation criteria: technical approach and methodology (Factor 1), past performance on similar federal, state, or local government or cultural survey projects completed within the past five years (Factor 2), and price (Factor 3), with Factors 1 and 2 weighted equally and more important than Factor 3. Payment is via Invoice Processing Platform only.