Sources Sought
FRRI 253825 Rehabilitate Civil Rights Structures
Department of the Interior · National Park Service · Sol. 140P2025R0035
No deadline
Track this notice by email. We'll email you if it's amended or awarded, and a week and two days before responses are due.
AI summary Beta
The National Park Service Denver Service Center is running a sources sought notice (market research, not a request for proposals) for a construction project to rehabilitate the 1950s Greyhound Bus Depot and Mural Building at Freedom Riders National Monument in Anniston, Alabama. The NPS anticipates issuing a request for proposals in the Spring of 2025, with a construction magnitude of $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 and 365 calendar days to perform.
Things to watch
- Sources sought only - not an offer request. Proposals are not being accepted; this notice is market research, and responding does not secure a place in the later competition.
Proposals are NOT being
- Set-aside not decided. The NPS will decide on a small business set-aside based on how many qualified businesses respond, so a response helps shape whether small businesses get a set-aside.
The amount of interest or lack
- Historic building with hazardous materials. Work on a historic structure with lead paint and asbestos needs preservation experience and abatement capability, and invasive treatments are treated as an Adverse Effect.
Older paint coatings on the building interior
- Bonding capacity needed. Bid, performance and payment bonds are anticipated, and you must state your bonding capacity in the response.
This project will require insurance and Performance and Payment Bonds.
- Park open during construction; winter work possible. The work must be scheduled to limit visitor impact and may extend into winter within a 365-day period.
Winter construction may be required.
- Questionnaire refers to a different city. The questionnaire asks about licensing and permitting for Birmingham, Alabama, but the project is in Anniston, Alabama; confirm which applies.
How does your firm intend on complying with local construction building licensing and permitting for Birmingham, Alabama?
Read from the notice and 2 attachments.
- A14_SSN_FRRI_253825_1.pdf
- A14_Sources_Sought_Questionnaire_FRRI_253825_1.docx
Full brief
What they want
- Rehabilitate the 2,900 sq ft brick Greyhound Bus Depot, including hazardous material abatement (lead, asbestos), demolition of non-historic elements, interior surfaces and about 2,300 sq ft of new interior CMU wall
- Preserve and repair the depot roof, canopy, historic windows and doors; upgrade mechanical, electrical, HVAC and plumbing; install fire detection, suppression, alarm and security systems
- Rehabilitate the 2,520 sq ft Mural Building, including abatement and system upgrades, plus a visitor contact space, restrooms, employee area, office and multi-use space
- Repair the exterior envelope for both buildings: masonry cleaning, repair and repointing, and new linseed-oil-based, vapor-permeable coatings on wood
- Create an ABAAS-compliant accessible path of travel through the building interior
- Work on a 4,300 sq ft driveway/parking lot and exterior site improvements
- Period of performance
- Anticipated 365 calendar days including any potential weather shutdown
- Place of performance
- Freedom Riders National Monument, Anniston, Alabama
- Estimated value
- Construction magnitude between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000
- Offers due
- December 13, 2024, 03:00 PM Mountain Time (capability response to this sources sought notice)
- How to submit
- Email to Contracting Officer Cary Atwood (cary_atwood@nps.gov) and Contract Specialist Carlos Garcia (carlos_garcia@nps.gov)
What to include when you submit
- Company name, DUNS number, address, point of contact, telephone number and email address
- Business type: large or small under NAICS 236220, plus any HUBZone, VOSB, SDVOSB, WOSB or EDWOSB certification
- Statement of bonding capacity (letters from bonding companies are not required at this time)
- Information showing experience and capability on projects of same or similar size, scope and magnitude, built under similar conditions
- Optional: existing marketing materials such as capability statements and brochures
- Complete the attached Sources Sought Questionnaire (A14_Sources Sought Questionnaire)
You must have
- Both large and small businesses may respond to the sources sought; the SAM.gov notice shows no set-aside, and any later small business set-aside depends on the responses
Responses are being requested from both large and small businesses.
- Bid, performance and payment bonds are anticipated for the later solicitation
Bonding: The NPS anticipates bid, performance and payment bonds will be required
- Size standard for NAICS 236220 is $45M
Small Business Size Standard: $45M
Not in the notice text
- Contract type for the eventual solicitation (the questionnaire mentions design-bid-build)
- Evaluation method and factors for the eventual solicitation
- Whether the eventual solicitation will be set aside for small business
- SAM.gov place of performance field is blank; the attachment gives Anniston, Alabama
- No specifications or drawings are available with this notice
Is this a fit for your business?
Create a free accountFedReady checks notices like this against your business profile, tracks deadlines, and alerts you to new matches. Creating an account is free.
Key facts
- Posted
- Nov 21, 2024
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Solicitation
- 140P2025R0035
- Agency
- Department of the Interior · National Park Service
- Office
- DSC Contracting Services Division
- NAICS
- 236220
- Product/service code
- Z2QA
- Business type
- Construction & renovation
- Contracting contact
- Garcia, Carloscarlos_garcia@nps.gov7209006595
What similar contracts paid
120 contracts at this agency for the same NAICS and product/service codes had activity in the last 5 years, according to USAspending.gov. Small businesses won 86% of the dollars in this market over the last 3 fiscal years.
Typical contract$298KMiddle half: $92K to $1M
Typical per year$367KValue divided by years of performance
Before you respond
Full notice text from SAM.gov
FRRI 253825 - Rehabilitate Civil Rights Structures (Greyhound Bus Depot and Mural Building)
Similar open opportunities
- Trade and Cargo AcademyThe Army Corps of Engineers Charleston District wants a contractor to build a Trade and Cargo Academy and a Cargo Security and Seized Property Training Facility at the Federal…
- FCKY UEPH Barracks CM@RiskThe Army Corps of Engineers (Louisville District) is doing market research for construction of Unaccompanied Enlisted Personnel Housing (barracks) at Fort Campbell, KY, using a…
- Lease Fit-Out Construction in Nuuk, Greenland - Sources Sought/Market ResearchThe U.S. Department of State (Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations) is doing market research for a construction contract to fit out three floors of a leased, occupied building…
- Fort Lee Vehicle Recovery RangeThe Army Corps of Engineers (Norfolk District) wants a contractor to build 24 concrete turning pads with site drainage and road alignment and repair at Fort Lee, Virginia.
- FY28 KC-46A Aircraft Beddown Infrastructure Program | Altus AFB, OklahomaThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District wants a design-build team for a roughly $235M program at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma.