Solicitation
BRCA 310427 Southbound Shuttle Stop
Department of the Interior · National Park Service
AI summaryThe National Park Service's Denver Service Center wants a small business to build shuttle stop improvements at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, under one firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) contract. The solicitation calls itself a small business set-aside, though SAM.gov states no set-aside. Work takes 150 calendar days, and the response due date is November 3, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern, by email only. More in the summary
AI summary Beta
This summary may miss requirements: 5 of 12 attachments weren't read (B08_Att_06_LmtOnSubconRpt_REQD.xlsx, B08_Att_05_Price_Schedule_-_BRCA_310427.xlsx and 3 more). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The National Park Service's Denver Service Center wants a small business to build shuttle stop improvements at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, under one firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) contract. The solicitation calls itself a small business set-aside, though SAM.gov states no set-aside. Work takes 150 calendar days, and the response due date is November 3, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern, by email only.
Who can bid (6)
- Small business. The solicitation says it is being conducted as a small business set-aside (NAICS 237310).
- Active registration in SAM.gov when the offer is submitted.
- Bid guarantee (a bid bond or other security) sent with the proposal: 20 percent of the total proposal price or $3,000,000, whichever is less.
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- Name three key people in the proposal: Job Site Superintendent, Job Site Quality Control Manager and Traffic Control Supervisor. The Superintendent needs at least 5 years on at least 3 similar projects, OSHA 30-hour and basic life support credentials.
- Stay within the limits on subcontracting (clause 52.219-14), shown by a worksheet of projected amounts sent with the offer.
- Firms that helped design or write the specifications for this job cannot receive any part of the award.
How to submit: Email only, sent to Contracting Officer Zaira Lupidi (zaira_lupidi@ios.doi.gov) and CS_DSC_Proposal_Submission@nps.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (11)
From the version posted Oct 16, 2026.
- Serious: Small business set-aside in the solicitation, none on SAM.gov. The solicitation says only small businesses can compete, but SAM.gov lists no set-aside. Confirm with the Contracting Officer which governs before you bid.
- Serious: Bid guarantee required with the proposal. A bid guarantee of 20 percent of the proposal price, capped at $3,000,000, must arrive by the response due date. A missing or wrong guarantee may get the proposal rejected.
- Serious: Performance and payment bonds may be required. The performance and payment bonds clause is in the contract, and the offer form refers to any required bonds. Ask your surety about capacity early.
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- Worth checking: Three key people must be named in the proposal. A Superintendent, Quality Control Manager and Traffic Control Supervisor must be named with resumes and meet set experience minimums. No substitutions are allowed during the first 30 days of performance except for illness, death or termination of employment.
- Worth checking: Remote site with distant suppliers. The area is rural with little staging room, and the nearest suppliers and lodging are 80 miles away. Plan material delivery and crew housing in your price.
- Worth checking: Site visit is expected, but its date and place are TBD. Bidders are urged and expected to inspect the site, and the organized site visit date and meeting place are both listed as TBD. The text does not call it required.
- Worth checking: Heavy machinery limited near prairie dog burrows. No heavy machinery within 1000 ft of active Utah prairie dog burrows before June 15 or after August 30. This can limit how you sequence work in a 150-day period.
- Worth checking: Construction wage rules apply; wage determinations not read. The construction wage rate clause and the Davis-Bacon Act (federal minimum pay for construction trades) apply. Two wage determinations are attached as scanned files that could not be read; check them on SAM.gov.
- Worth checking: Daily late-completion damages. If work finishes late, the contractor pays $1,442 for each calendar day of delay.
- Minor: Email-only submission with file size limits. Proposals go by email to two addresses, in separate volumes, with size caps per attachment and per email. Any other method is not accepted.
- Minor: Date passed (Oct 7, 2025): Past performance questionnaire shows a 2025 return date. The solicitation says references return the questionnaire by the proposal due date, but the attached questionnaire lists a 2025 return time. Ask the Contracting Officer which date references should use.
Read from the notice and 7 attachments. 5 of 12 not read. Show which files.
- Sol_140P2026R0065_Amd_0001.pdf (read)
- Sol_140P2026R0065.pdf (read)
- B08_Att_01_BRCA310427_20251223_Specifications_100p.pdf (read)
- B08_Att_07_General_References.pdf (read)
- B08_Att_08_Key_Personnel.pdf (read)
- B08_Att_10_Project_Experience_Questionnaire.pdf (read)
- B08_Att_09_Past_Performance_Questionnaire.pdf (read)
- B08_Att_06_LmtOnSubconRpt_REQD.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- B08_Att_05_Price_Schedule_-_BRCA_310427.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- B08_Att_02_2026_02_06_BRCA_100__Set.pdf: not read (it couldn't be opened): open it on SAM.gov
- B08_Att_03_WD_UT20260028.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- B08_Att_04_WD_UT20260017.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Build shuttle stop improvements along Bryce Canyon Road: extra shuttle lanes, a new southbound shuttle bus stop and a new shuttle stop shelter.
- Extend existing culverts, add new culverts, and realign the multi-use trail.
- Build a cast-in-place retaining wall, sidewalks and ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) ramps.
- Replace existing MUTCD (Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices) signs and stripe the pavement.
- Keep the park open: run a 3-way stop at the intersection, submit traffic control plans before work starts, and keep safe pedestrian and cyclist access to the Visitor Center.
- Protect Utah prairie dog habitat (50 ft buffer around active burrows) and natural areas next to the work.
- Start work within 10 calendar days after the notice to proceed and finish all work, including final cleanup, within 150 calendar days.
- Send a progress schedule within five days after work starts, and a draft invoice package 7 calendar days before each Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) submission.
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP); one lump-sum line item (CLIN 0010, Northbound & Southbound Shuttle Stop)
- Period of performance
- 150 calendar days from the notice to proceed, including final cleanup and possible weather shutdown. For evaluation, the schedule assumes a notice to proceed on May 1, 2027.
- Place of performance
- Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah (Section C of the solicitation); SAM.gov leaves the place of performance blank
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- Best value tradeoff (FAR Part 15.1). Non-price factors 1 to 5 are in descending order of importance; all non-price factors together are approximately equal in importance to price. The Government may award without discussions.
- Offers due
- November 3, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email only, sent to Contracting Officer Zaira Lupidi (zaira_lupidi@ios.doi.gov) and CS_DSC_Proposal_Submission@nps.gov
- Page limits
- Factor 1 Technical Approach narrative: 2 pages (pictures count; extra pages are not evaluated)
What they'll judge offers on
- Factor 1, Technical Approach: 2-page narrative on managing vehicle and pedestrian traffic, protecting park resources and operations, and how the schedule will be met
- Factor 2, Schedule: MS Project Gantt chart with critical path, plus narrative on logic, procurement lead-time, trade coordination, staging and risk
- Factor 3, Project Experience: up to 3 relevant projects from the last 5 years in congested areas of high public use
- Factor 4, Key Personnel Experience: Site Superintendent, Quality Control Manager, Traffic Control Supervisor
- Factor 5, Past Performance: questionnaires or CPARS reports for the same projects as Factor 3
- Price: fair and reasonable, checked for unbalanced line items
What to include when you submit
- Proposals sent by any means other than email are not accepted. Confirm the Government received yours.
- Email subject line: solicitation number, Park-PMIS and number of emails, for example 140P2026R0065, BRCA 310427, email 1 of 3.
- Send Volume I (technical) and Volume II (business and price) as separate email attachments, one electronic copy each. Each attachment must be 38 MB or less and each email 100 MB or less.
- Volume I folders: Factor 1 Technical Approach, Factor 2 Schedule, Factor 3 Project Experience, Factor 4 Key Personnel Experience, Factor 5 Past Performance.
- Factor 2: submit a schedule for this project in MS Project Gantt chart format. Assume a notice to proceed on May 1, 2027. Show specific activities, a clear critical path and major milestones.
- Factor 3: use the attached Project Experience form, one per project, for up to 3 relevant projects completed in the last 5 years. Submit these same projects for Factor 5.
- Factor 4: send resumes for the Superintendent, Quality Control Manager and Traffic Control Supervisor.
- Factor 5: complete the first sections of the Past Performance Questionnaire and send it to your client reference, who returns it to the Contracting Officer by the response due date. Include copies of what you sent. A CPARS report may replace the questionnaire.
- Factor 5: include a narrative on any past performance that was less than fully satisfactory, with the facts and the fixes.
- Subcontractor past performance counts only if it matches the work that subcontractor will do on this job.
- Volume II: Standard Form 1442 (SF 1442, the form you sign and return as your offer) with blocks 14 through 20C signed by an official who can bind the company.
- Volume II: acknowledge every amendment (Amendment 0001 moved the response due date to November 3, 2026).
- Volume II: Section B price schedule with a separate schedule of values for each line item, showing the price by major work component.
- Volume II: Standard Form 24 (SF 24) bid bond or another allowed bid guarantee, Section K representations and certifications, the General References form, and the subcontracting percentage worksheet.
- Subcontracting percentage worksheet: enter projected amounts based on your pricing and your subcontractors' pricing.
- If you cannot use the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) for invoices, send a written waiver request to the Contracting Officer with your proposal.
- Send pre-proposal questions by email to the Contracting Officer at least 14 days before the response due date.
After award, you must have
- Performance and payment bonds: the contract includes clause 52.228-15, and the offer form says the offeror agrees to furnish any required bonds. The bond amount and due date were not in the text read. From Sol_140P2026R0065.pdf:
The offeror agrees to furnish any required performance and payment bonds.
Not in the notice text
- The middle of the solicitation (including the full text of the subcontracting-limit and bonding clauses), most of the specifications, the drawings, the price schedule spreadsheet, the subcontracting report spreadsheet and two wage determinations were attached but not read: B08_Att_02_2026_02_06_BRCA_100__Set.pdf, B08_Att_05_Price_Schedule_-_BRCA_310427.xlsx, B08_Att_06_LmtOnSubconRpt_REQD.xlsx, B08_Att_03_WD_UT20260028.pdf and B08_Att_04_WD_UT20260017.pdf.
- The site visit date and meeting place are listed as TBD.
- No dollar value or price range for the contract is stated in the text read.
- Whether performance and payment bonds are required, and their amounts, are not in the text read.
- The percentage allowed to be subcontracted under clause 52.219-14 is in the part of the solicitation not read.
- No incumbent or earlier contract is named.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email only, sent to Contracting Officer Zaira Lupidi (zaira_lupidi@ios.doi.gov) and CS_DSC_Proposal_Submission@nps.gov. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- SAM.gov has no description for this notice beyond its title. The work is described in its attachments, listed under Notice details.
- Construction contracts over $2,000 pay at least the local Davis-Bacon wage rates, from the wage determination in the solicitation. Price your labor from it: How to price a government contract, and how Davis-Bacon differs from the Service Contract Act.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 16, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- DSC Contracting Services Division, Denver, CO
- Product/service code
- Z1LB · Maintenance of Highways/Roads/Streets/Bridges/Railways
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 237310)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 16, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Nov 3, 2026 (changed)
- Sep 18, 2026 · SolicitationDue Oct 19, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
BRCA 310427 Southbound Shuttle Stop