Saint Gaudens National Historical Park - Mitigate

The Department of the Interior's National Park Service Northeast Region is seeking a small business to perform hazardous tree mitigation services at Saint Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, New Hampshire. The solicitation requires a contractor with an ISA-certified arborist to complete comprehensive tree maintenance across the park's main campus and Blow-Me-Down Farm, including pruning 40 Birch trees, removing or pruning 38 additional trees, and performing specialized interventions like cabling and lightning protection system inspections. The government will evaluate offers based on technical approach, past performance, and price, with all non-price factors being equal to price. Quotes are due by June 27, 2025, at 12:00 PM ET, and a mandatory pre-bid site visit is scheduled for June 17, 2025. Offerors must demonstrate experience with lightning protection systems, tree cabling, and provide certified tree climbers.

The contract is a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 561730 (Landscaping Services) with a small business size standard of $9.5M. The project will be executed through a firm-fixed-price purchase order with a performance period from August 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025. Work must be completed within 60 calendar days, performed between 7:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The scope involves detailed tree management at two specific locations: the main campus and Blow-Me-Down Farm, with precise interventions including removing 10 dead/damaged trees and pruning specific specimen trees like Black Oak, Willow, Black Locust, and Northern Catalpa. The project targets 79 trees at the Main Campus and 14 trees at the Blow-Me-Down-Farm, with most requiring pruning and removal of dead, dying, diseased, or weak branches.