Solicitation
Operation and Maintenance of Arkansas Lakes Project
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army · Sol. W912EE26RA015
Due in 14 daysSmall business
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District wants one small business to operate, maintain and repair recreation areas, dams and facilities at three Arkansas lakes (Ouachita, Greeson and DeGray). It is a single-award, firm-fixed-price IDIQ contract where work is ordered through task orders, with a base ordering period, four option years and a 6-month ordering period. Offers are due October 14, 2026.
Watch out for
- Key solicitation pages and attachments not available. The middle of the solicitation (instructions to offerors, price schedule, clauses, wage details) and the mowing attachment, bid schedules, wage rates and CBA were not readable, so the real price structure and labor costs are unknown.
- Possible union or wage determination labor costs. Attachments named CBA for Ark Lakes and Wage Rates for Ark Lakes OM are scanned images, so required wages and any collective bargaining terms could not be read and may drive your price.
- No government equipment, office or storage. You must buy or lease all equipment, vehicles, tools, supplies and a place to work from, which raises start-up cost for a small firm.
1.2.0 Government Furnished Facilities: The Government shall not provide any office, storage, or
- Award may be made on initial offers. The government may award without discussions, so the first proposal needs your best price and full technical detail.
proposal should contain the offeror's best terms from a cost or price and technical standpoint.
- Fast start and wide geography. Work is spread over three lakes and five counties, task orders can start quickly (first seed order is 30 days), and plans such as the Quality Control Plan are due within 10 to 30 days of award; the text gives both 10 and 30 days.
1.3.3 Plans: The Contractor shall furnish the following plans within 30 days after award date for
- Background screening at the contractor's expense. You must run your own criminal, sex offender, employment and reference checks before putting people through Army security processing, and the government can still deny access.
The Contractor's internal pre-employment screening must be completed at the Contractor's
- Task order work with no stated minimum or value. Quantities and dollar values are not stated and work is ordered only as needed, so revenue is uncertain.
- Site visit already happened. The site visit was held September 15, 2026; slides and the sign-in sheet were posted in Amendment 0001, but the slides were not readable here.
The site visit will be held on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, beginning at 0900 hrs.
Read from the notice and 6 attachments. 10 not read in full.
- Solicitation Amendment W912EE26RA0150001 SF 30.pdf
- Solicitation - W912EE26RA015.pdf
- Seed Task Order SOW_Ark Lakes.pdf
- Sample Insurance Certificate.pdf
- Attachment 3 Trash Collection Maps-OUACHITA.pdf
- Attachment 5 Past Performance Questionaire.pdf
- Ark Lakes Operations Presentation.pptx: .pptx files aren't read yet
- Ark Lakes Site Visit_PP.pptx: .pptx files aren't read yet
- Ark Lakes Site Visit Sign in Sheet.pdf: scanned PDF: no text to read
- CBA for Ark Lakes.pdf: scanned PDF: no text to read
- Ark Lakes OM_Parent IDIQ Bid Schedule.xlsx: spreadsheet: not read yet
- Ark Lakes_SeedTaskOrder_BidSchedule.xlsx: spreadsheet: not read yet
- __Attachment_1___Facilities_by_Area___2026.xlsx: spreadsheet: not read yet
- Attachment 2 Mowing.pdf: too large
- Attachment 4 Debris Dump Sites.pdf: scanned PDF: no text to read
- Wage Rates for Ark Lakes OM.pdf: scanned PDF: no text to read
Full brief
What they want
- Janitorial and custodial cleaning of restrooms, shower houses, shelters, gatehouses, fish cleaning stations and grounds
- Grass mowing, brush hogging, trimming, pruning and landscaping across the parks, dikes and access roads
- Dumpster service and hauling waste to approved landfills
- Welcome and visitor center reception desk staffing at the field offices and the DeGray Overlook Visitor Center
- Natural resource work: pest control, vegetation control, tree and stump removal, hazard trees and storm debris
- Building, structure, mechanical, plumbing and electrical maintenance and repair, priced per task order
- Labor, equipment and material support for the dam, spillway and aids to navigation
- Contract type
- Single-award firm-fixed-price IDIQ (unit-priced CLINs; some work is negotiated per task order)
- Period of performance
- Base ordering period (listed as Base Year) plus four option years and a 6-month option / ordering period. The first seed task order (janitorial, mowing and dumpsters) runs 30 days from award.
- Place of performance
- Lake Ouachita (Royal, AR), Lake Greeson and DeGray Lake in southwest Arkansas (Garland, Montgomery, Pike, Clark and Hot Spring counties)
- How they'll choose
- Best value tradeoff. Technical is more important than Past Performance, Past Performance is more important than Price, and Technical plus Past Performance combined are significantly more important than Price. Price is evaluated for reasonableness but not scored. Award may be made without discussions.
- Offers due
- October 14, 2026, 3:00 PM Central (extended from September 30, 2026 by Amendment 0001)
- How to submit
- Not stated in the text provided (the instructions section was cut off). Proposals go to the Vicksburg District contracting office.
What they'll judge offers on
- Factor 1 - Technical (Volume I), with three equally important sub-factors: Technical Approach, Staffing, Management Approach (includes draft Accident Prevention Plan and Quality Control Plan)
- Factor 2 - Past Performance (Volume II): relevant and recent work in the last 5 years, with past performance questionnaires
- Factor 3 - Price (Volume III): fair and reasonable, complete and balanced
What to include when you submit
- Three volumes: Volume I Technical (technical approach, staffing and key personnel, management approach with draft Accident Prevention Plan and Quality Control Plan), Volume II Past Performance, Volume III Price
- Past performance covers the last 5 calendar years for the prime and significant subcontractors (those doing 25% or more); present efforts must be at least 70% complete to count as relevant
- Have past clients complete the Past Performance Questionnaire (Attachment 5 / Form PPQ-0)
- First page of the proposal must show the RFP number, offeror name and address, a statement of agreement with all terms, negotiation contacts, and the signer's name, title and signature
- Acknowledge Amendment 0001
- Mark proprietary data with the legend in the instructions to offerors
You must have
- Total small business set-aside under NAICS 561210 Facilities Support Services; the offeror must represent that it is a small business
This is a 100% total small business set-aside procurement issued under NAICS code 561210
- On-site superintendent with at least 2 years of management experience, with authority to bind the contractor
Superintendent shall have a minimum of 2 years experience performing management duties.
- Contractor Quality Control Officer with at least 5 years of quality control experience
3. Have minimum experience of five (5) years in quality control work.
- Certified or licensed pesticide and vegetation applicators (state certification)
6.1.4 Pest Control Application (Priced): The contractor shall perform pest services by a certified
- Employees must be screened by the contractor and background checked; E-Verify is required; non-U.S. citizens need government approval first
i. Pre-screen candidates using E-Verify Program: Contractors shall comply with the
- EM 385-1-1 safety program and a written Accident Prevention Plan accepted before work starts; insurance certificate (a sample ACORD certificate is attached, coverage amounts not stated in the text provided)
1.2.1 Safety Program Support: The Contractor shall fully implement a safety program that is in
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. The Corps says it has continued responsibility for operating these lakes, and a scanned attachment named CBA for Ark Lakes suggests an existing workforce under a collective bargaining agreement.
Not in the notice text
- How and where to submit the proposal (email, portal) and any page limits, because Section L instructions were in the part of the solicitation that was cut off
- Price schedule and CLIN quantities (bid schedule spreadsheets were not read)
- Wage determination, collective bargaining agreement terms and any Service Contract Labor Standards requirements (scanned PDFs)
- Mowing acreage and frequencies (Attachment 2 was too large to read) and facility lists (Attachment 1 spreadsheet)
- Insurance and bonding requirements and amounts
- Length of the base ordering period and any minimum or maximum order guarantees
- Small business size standard (the provision text shows a placeholder)
- Contents of the Operations and Site Visit presentations
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Key facts
- Response due
- Oct 23, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Oct 8, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation
- W912EE26RA015
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army
- Office
- W07V Endist Vicksburg
- Set-aside
- Small Business Set Aside - Total
- NAICS
- 561210
- Product/service code
- S216
- Business type
- Facilities, janitorial & grounds
- Place of performance
- Royal, AR
- Contracting contact
- Genna WootenGenna.W.Wooten@usace.army.mil
- Versions
- 5 (amended since first posted)
Before you respond
Full notice text from SAM.gov
***Amendment 0002*** Amendment 0002 serves to change and remove language in the scope of work and attachments. Please see the changes to the scope of work, Sections E, F, G, L, and M, Attachments 1, 2, and 3, as well as the bid schedule for the Parent IDIQ and the Seed Task Order. The proposal due date is hereby extended to 23 October 2026. ***Amendment 0001*** Amendment 0001 has been posted to provide the site visit sign in sheet, and both power point presentations shown at the site visit. This amendment also extends the solicitation due date to 14 October 2026. ***Notice*** The site visit will be held on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, beginning at 0900 hrs. Address of site visit is Lake Ouachita Field Office, 1424 Blakely Dam Rd, Royal AR 71968. This is a 100% total small business set-aside procurement issued under NAICS code 561210, Facilities Support Services by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District (MVK). The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District (MVK) has the continued responsibility for the operation and maintenance (O&M) of the Arkansas Lakes Flood Control Projects at DeGray Lake, Lake Ouachita, and Lake Greeson located in the state of Arkansas. A broad variety of operations, routine and non-routine maintenance, repair including emergency repairs, inspection, reconstruction, modernization, and rehabilitation of project facilities, water control structures, and features are required under this procurement. These include Recreation Area and Facility Cleaning; Solid Waste Collection, Transport, and Disposal; Heavy Equipment Maintenance/Repairs; Visitor Center Operations and Maintenance; Carpentry; Erosion Control Activities; Buoy Placement and Maintenance; Painting; Heating/Air Conditioning Services; Masonry Repair; Landscaping; Wildlife and Fisheries Enhancement; Flood Control Structure Repairs and Maintenance; and Road Maintenance/Repairs. The Government intends to award an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a base ordering period with four options and a 6-month ordering period.
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