MORU Rock Block Studies

The National Park Service (NPS) Midwest Region is seeking a contractor to provide rock block monitoring services at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota. The contractor will be responsible for managing, supervising, and maintaining the rock block monitoring system, which requires providing qualified personnel, tools, equipment, and transportation to ensure continuous system operation. The contract will be awarded using Simplified Acquisition Procedures under NAICS code 541690 for Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services, with a small business size standard of $19 million. Interested contractors must have an active SAM registration and UEI number, and the formal solicitation will be issued around February 20, 2025, with responses due approximately March 12, 2025. While specific evaluation criteria were not detailed in the pre-solicitation notice, contractors will need to demonstrate capability to meet the technical and operational requirements of the rock block monitoring system.

The contract is an unrestricted acquisition with no specific set-aside designations, and it will be a 5-year firm-fixed price service contract with five potential option periods. The base period is scheduled from April 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026, with an estimated total contract value not explicitly stated in the documentation. Contractors will be expected to provide detailed annual reports to the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and maintain a comprehensive monitoring system at the memorial. The RFQ package will be exclusively posted on SAM.GOV, with no hardcopies or email copies to be distributed. Potential bidders should carefully review the full solicitation when it becomes available to understand the complete scope of work and specific technical requirements for this specialized scientific and technical consulting service.