Rio Grande National Forest Vault Toilet Pumping

Closed Special Notice Posted

Agency
Responses due
Set-aside
Total Small Business

Opportunity facts

Place of performance
Monte Vista, Colorado 81144, United States

Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .

About this opportunity

The USDA Forest Service Procurement & Property Services, Intermountain Zone, has issued a Special Notice for vault toilet pumping services at the Rio Grande National Forest. This notice announces the agency's intent to award a competitive Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Call Order exceeding $25,000 for vault toilet pumping services across the forest's facilities. The requirement covers 53 toilet locations across three ranger districts (Conejos Peak, Divide, and Saguache), including campgrounds, trailheads, boating sites, and other recreational facilities. The contract involves furnishing labor, equipment, supervision, transportation, operating supplies, and incidentals for maintaining vault toilets in mountainous terrain. This opportunity falls under NAICS code 562991 for septic tank and related services and is set aside for small businesses.

The purpose of this Special Notice is to comply with USDA contracting policies and gauge market capacity for vault toilet pumping services before awarding the competitive BPA Call Order. Interested contractors must submit their responses by close of business on July 23, 2025, via email to Rebecca Schowalter at rebecca.l.schowalter@usda.gov. Submissions must include organizational information such as company name, address, contact details, size and ownership type, and Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), along with tailored capability statements demonstrating technical and management capabilities. The BPA has an estimated award period from July 23, 2025, through July 31, 2026, with potential renewal up to five years, and annual call limits of $250,000 with individual orders not exceeding $50,000. Only small businesses are eligible to participate in this total small business set-aside opportunity, and contractors must demonstrate capacity to provide performance-based services including compliance with program schedules, cost containment, and risk mitigation.

Notice text

BPA Call Order Exceeding $25,000.00

Synopsis Requisition 1153400

The USDA Forest Service (FS), Procurement & Property Services (PPS), Intermountain Zone, is issuing this synopsis as a means of complying with the USDA’s policy in the Contracting Desk Book, SUBPART 413.3—SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION METHODS, 413.303 Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs).

The USDA FS intends to award a competitive BPA Call Order against a current Blanket Purchase Agreement.

Parties having an interest in, and the resources to support this requirement for vault toilet pumping are encouraged to respond. Vault toilet pumping includes furnishing labor, equipment, supervision, transportation, operating supplies, and incidentals.

Please contact Rebecca Schowalter at rebecca.l.schowalter@usda.gov for additional information regarding this requirement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this acquisition is 562991 septic tank and related services.

This is not a solicitation. This synopsis notification of intent to award a BPA Call order does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this notification is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information:

1) Organization name, address, email address, website address, telephone number, and

size and type of ownership for the organization, and a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) assigned in the System of Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov.

2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate

documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant

subcontracting or teaming is anticipated to deliver technical capability, address the

administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to:

1) Provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and

otherwise anticipated.

2) Secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical

resources required to successfully perform similar requirements.

3) Implement a successful project management plan that includes compliance with

program schedules, cost containment, meeting/tracking performance, hiring/retention

of key personnel, and risk mitigation.

4) Provide services under a performance-based service acquisition vehicle.

This requirement will be competitively awarded as a BPA Call Order against the aforementioned

BPA previously solicited on the Government Point of Entry (GPE) at: www.sam.gov.

The government will not provide feedback or evaluations to companies regarding their submissions in response to this notice.

Submission Instructions: Parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this notice by close of business July 23, 2025. All responses under this notice must be emailed to Rebecca Schowalter at rebecca.l.schowalter@usda.gov.

If you have any questions concerning this synopsis notice, please contact the above noted individual.

Attachments:

  1. Attachment 1: Statement of Work (SOW)
  2. Attachment 2: Schedule of Items (SOI)
  3. Attachment 3: Toilet Locations

Files

File Type Posted
Attachment 1 Rio Grande SOW.pdf PDF
Attachment 3 Toilet Locations.xlsx XLSX spreadsheet
Attachment 2 Vault Toilet Schedule of Items.xlsx XLSX spreadsheet

Notice history

Notice Type Posted
This notice Latest special notice Special Notice
Rio Grande National Forest Vault Toilet Pumping Original Solicitation

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