Develop a Wetland Screening Tool and Associated Products
Closed State & local contract opportunity Posted
- Solicitation number
- 26RFP19836
- State
- South Dakota
- Responses due
Opportunity facts
- Jurisdiction
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About this opportunity
The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) is soliciting proposals to develop a web-accessible Wetland Screening Tool and associated products, with proposals due July 9, 2026 at 11:59 PM CDT and written questions due June 10, 2026.
The deliverables include predictive wetland models specific to Level III ecoregions, a publicly facing interactive website displaying wetland location and extent across South Dakota with layers for county boundaries, topography, streams, federal lands, and restoration potential, data-sharing capabilities for flood and water quality modeling, machine learning for ongoing model improvement, and comprehensive training for DANR staff and program partners. The tool must integrate with Microsoft Power BI, ESRI, and Tableau platforms, and vendors must comply with South Dakota Information Technology Security policies including AES256 encryption for data in transit and at rest, multifactor authentication for hosted systems, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 Level AA compliance, and browser compatibility with Edge, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Applications must be developed in C#, ASP.NET, MVC, UWP, or WPF frameworks. Data storage is restricted to continental United States data centers with no offshore access permitted. The State retains exclusive ownership of all data created.
Vendors may propose vendor-hosted, state on-premises, or state cloud-hosted Platform-as-a-Service solutions. The contract term is two years with an option for one additional one-year renewal at the State's discretion. Insurance requirements include commercial general liability of $1 million per occurrence, professional liability insurance of $1 million, and business automobile liability of $1 million per accident.
Cost proposals account for 500 of 1,500 evaluation points, with technical proposals comprising 1,000 points and solution demonstrations comprising 500 points. The anticipated evaluation timeline includes short-list determination by July 10, technical reviews July 15–22, demonstrations July 23–29, and award decision by July 31, 2026. The contractor is responsible for all service costs including third-party software licenses, hosting, maintenance, post-implementation support, and ongoing model updates. The agreement is contingent upon legislative appropriation and continued expenditure authority.
Opportunity text
The Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) is the state agency responsible for the protection of surface water resources including wetlands. DANR collaborates with a number of local and federal partners to accomplish the goal of protecting the surface water resource including the Environmental Protection Agency, United States Army Corps of Engineers, and cities, towns, and counties throughout the state among others. Recent federal level events including the Sackett decision of 2023 and other actions have refocused federal protection of surface waters to only those waters that should truly meet the definition of WOTUS and thus, placed greater responsibility on states to protect their surface water resource. Through robust stakeholder engagement activities conducted in 2025 DANR found the regulated public and other interested parties agreed that an accurate, state-specific web-accessible map detailing the location of wetlands would be useful for numerous industries, local and federal government partners as well as DANR.
All written questions should be sent to: aaron.ward@state.sd.us, only emailed questions will be accepted.
Each offeror may submit questions via email concerning this RFP to obtain clarification of requirements. No questions will be accepted after the date and time indicated in the above schedule of activities. Email questions to the email address listed above with the subject line "RFP#26RFP19836". The questions and their answers will be sent to all offerors that submitted Letters of Intent, submitted questions, or requested the questions and answers via email before the proposal submittal date and will be sent by the date and time indicated in the above calendar of events. Offeror may not rely on any other statements, either of a written or oral nature, that alter any specification or other term or condition of this RFP that have not originated from the SD RFP Project Contact. Offerors will be notified in the same manner as indicated above regarding any modifications to this RFP. Offerors and their agents may not contact any state employee other than the buyer of record regarding any of these matters during the solicitation and evaluation process. Inappropriate contacts are grounds for suspension and exclusion from specific procurements.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Response to Offeror Questions document.pdf | ||
| Security and Vendor Questions v3.3 Production.docx | DOCX document | |
| RFP Document.pdf | ||
| DANR RFP Wetland Screening Tool IT Clause Appendix B.docx | DOCX document |
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