Solicitation
Request for Proposal EFMO 224159/318539, Rehabilit
Department of the Interior · National Park Service
AI summarySolicitation 140PP027R0001: the National Park Service, through its Denver Service Center, wants a builder to rehabilitate the Effigy Mounds National Monument visitor center and redesign and repave the visitor parking lot and maintenance area in Harpers Ferry, Iowa. The response due date is December 7, 2026, 2:00 PM Mountain. The size is stated as more than $10M, and funds are not yet available; no award will be made until they are. More in the summary
AI summary Beta
This summary may miss requirements: 7 of 16 attachments weren't read (B08_Attachment_5a_Solit_PSP_Cover.rtf, B08_Attachment_9_Solit_PSP_Vol_II__Price_Schedule.xlsx and 5 more). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
Solicitation 140PP027R0001: the National Park Service, through its Denver Service Center, wants a builder to rehabilitate the Effigy Mounds National Monument visitor center and redesign and repave the visitor parking lot and maintenance area in Harpers Ferry, Iowa. The response due date is December 7, 2026, 2:00 PM Mountain. The size is stated as more than $10M, and funds are not yet available; no award will be made until they are.
Who can bid
- Current, active registration in SAM.gov when the offer is submitted.
- Firms (prime or subconsultant) that helped develop the design or specifications for this project cannot get any part of the award.
- Bid guarantee with the offer (SF 24 bid bond or other suitable guarantee). The amount and whether it is required are in clause 52.228-1 and the SF 1442, which were not fully read.
How to submit: Email only, to the Contracting Officer (stormy_gallagher@ios.doi.gov), the Contract Specialist (daryl_hawkins@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 (9)
From the version posted Oct 23, 2026.
- Serious: Large job: more than $10M, with bid guarantee and bonds. A job this size needs a bid bond with the offer and probably performance and payment bonds, so check your bonding capacity before spending time on the proposal.
- Worth checking: Funds not yet available; award waits for funding. No award will be made until funds are available, and the Government can cancel before or after the closing date without paying proposal costs.
- Worth checking: Pre-proposal site visit; date and whether required not read. The form points to Section L for the site visit, and that section's visit details were not in the text read, so you could miss a required visit.
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- Worth checking: Certified cost or pricing data required. Small firms must prepare detailed cost data in a mandatory format, with three quotes for materials and subcontracts, which takes real time and accounting support.
- Worth checking: Safety record is scored. Three years of OSHA 300A logs and your EMR are submitted and rated, so a weak injury record hurts the safety factor.
- Worth checking: Liquidated damages of $1,363.00 per calendar day. Finishing late costs this amount for each day of delay until the work is completed or accepted.
- Minor: Questions due 10 days before the response due date. Questions must reach both the Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist by email at least 10 days before December 7, 2026. Check the notice: its text gives December 7, 2026 as the date offers are due, not a question deadline.
- Minor: Email-only submission with file size limits. Late or wrongly sized emails can be rejected, and proposals sent any other way are not accepted.
- Minor: Different solicitation numbers in the documents. The SAM.gov notice says 140PP027R0001, the page headers say 140PP2027R0001, and the email subject example says 140P2026R0079; ask the Contracting Officer which number to use.
Read from the notice and 9 attachments. 7 of 16 not read. Show which files.
- Sol_140PP027R0001.pdf (read)
- B08_Attachment_1_EFMO_318539-224159_Final_CD_Specifications.pdf (read)
- B08_Solit_Clauses_Construction_REQD_RFO_Updates_RELEASE_v14_13March2026_(AutoRecovered).pdf (read)
- B08_Attachment_6_Solit_PSP_Vol_I_Exp_REQD.docx (read)
- B08_Attachment_7_Solit_PSP_Vol_I_PastPerf_REQD(1).docx (read)
- B08_Attachment_8_Solit_PSP_Vol_II_BidBond.pdf (read)
- B08_Attachment_11_Solit_PSP_Vol_II_GenRefs.docx (read)
- B08_Attachment_12_Solit_PSP_Vol_II_Proposed_Equals.docx (read)
- B08_Attachment_5b_Solit_PSP_Vol_I_Key_Personnel_Resume_Form.pdf (read)
- B08_Attachment_5a_Solit_PSP_Cover.rtf: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- B08_Attachment_9_Solit_PSP_Vol_II__Price_Schedule.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- B08_Attachment_10_Solit_PSP_Vol_II_LimitSubcontracting.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- B08_Attachment_2a_EFMO_224159_FinalCD_Dwgs.pdf: not read (it couldn't be opened): open it on SAM.gov
- B08_Attachment_2b_EFMO_318539_VC_FinalCD_Dwgs.pdf: not read (it couldn't be opened): open it on SAM.gov
- B08_Attachment_4-DOL-WD-Bldg_IA20260031.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- B08_Attachment_3_DOL-WD-Hvy-Hwy_IA20260028.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Rehabilitate the visitor center: foundation improvements, selective demolition, hazardous materials removal, and remodeling of the basement and main floor
- Install new heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical, domestic water, fire alarm and fire suppression improvements
- Install new windows and doors, interior and exterior finishes and roofing, and add insulation at the foundation, exterior walls and attic
- Make structural changes (relocating columns, new beams), relocate restrooms, tune up the elevator and build a new entry plaza
- Redesign and repave the visitor parking lot, with new layout, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, drainage, benches and picnic tables
- Improve the park staff maintenance area: delivery circulation, asphalt paving, drainage and parking
- Base price lines (CLIN 0001 to 0005) include a temporary visitor center trailer in the parking lot, temporary office space rental and moving, and a collections move
- Priced options (CLIN 0006 to 0012) cover HVAC and fire suppression, exterior envelope, interior accessibility, plumbing and electrical, low voltage conduit, lightning protection, meeting room and exhibit area renovation, and a deck expansion
- Contract type
- Negotiated request for proposals; firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) offer with base and option line items, single prime contract
- Period of performance
- One phase, approximately 640 calendar days
- Place of performance
- Effigy Mounds National Monument, Visitor Center complex, 151 Highway 76, Harpers Ferry, IA 52146-7519
- Estimated value
- Magnitude of construction: more than $10M (stated range, not a Government estimate)
- How they'll choose
- Best value tradeoff: the Government may pick a higher-priced offer if its benefits justify the price. Non-price factors combined are significantly more important than price.
- Offers due
- December 7, 2026, 2:00 PM Mountain
- How to submit
- Email only, to the Contracting Officer (stormy_gallagher@ios.doi.gov), the Contract Specialist (daryl_hawkins@ios.doi.gov) and CS_DSC_Proposal_Submission@nps.gov
What they'll judge offers on
- Project Experience: relevant projects of similar scope and size, technical skill, management and coordination
- Technical Approach
- Management Approach: management practices, cost and quality control, team roles and lines of communication
- Schedule: critical path, procurement lead times, trade coordination, completion within the required period
- Key Personnel Experience
- Safety: safety program, risk assessment, safety personnel, OSHA 300A incident logs and experience modification rate (EMR, an insurer's workplace-injury rating)
- Past Performance: references and Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) data; no past performance is rated neither favorably nor unfavorably
- Small Business Participation: small business offerors get the maximum credit
- Price: checked for fairness, reasonableness and unbalanced line items; option prices are added to the base price
What to include when you submit
- Send two volumes as separate email attachments: Volume I, Technical Proposal, and Volume II, Business and Price Proposal. Each volume is an original and one copy.
- Email subject line must have the solicitation number, park project number and number of emails, for example: 140P2026R0079, EFMO 224159/318539, email 1 of 3.
- Each attachment must be 38 MB or smaller and each email 100 MB or smaller. Verify that the proposal was received.
- Questions go by email to both the Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist at least 10 days before the response due date.
- Send no more than ten past projects, one Experience Questionnaire per project.
- Past Performance: send the Past Performance Questionnaire to references, who return it to the Contracting Officer or Contract Specialist. Past performance of proposed subcontractors counts only if it matches the work they will do.
- Safety: give your safety program overview, a project risk assessment, and the name, resume and safety training of the proposed Project Site Safety Manager. Include OSHA 300A logs for the previous three calendar years and an insurer statement of your current EMR.
- Key personnel: complete the resume form (Attachment 5) for each proposed key person.
- Volume II: Standard Form 1442 (SF 1442, the form you sign as your offer) blocks 14 through 20C, signed by someone who can bind the company; acknowledgment of all amendments.
- Volume II price: the Section B price schedule (or Attachment 9) with every option priced, plus a schedule of values showing major work components.
- Certified cost or pricing data in the mandatory format of FAR Table 15-2, showing which work you and each subcontractor will do.
- Price support: three supplier quotes or recent paid invoices for materials, labor rates with payroll samples or a union agreement, three subcontractor quotes per subcontract, equipment costs, a bonding company letter showing the bond rate, indirect rate support and profit rate documentation.
- Volume II also needs the Section K representations and certifications, the General References form, the Subcontracting Percentage Worksheet, and the bid guarantee (SF 24 bid bond or other suitable guarantee).
- Proposed equals for brand-name items go on the Proposed Equals form (Attachment 12).
After award, you must have
- Performance and payment bonds are covered by clause 52.228-15; the amounts and timing were not read. From B08_Solit_Clauses_Construction_REQD_RFO_Updates_RELEASE_v14_13March2026_(AutoRecovered).pdf:
PERFORMANCE AND PAYMENT BONDS-CONSTRUCTION…
Not in the notice text
- Parts of the solicitation were not read: the middle of the solicitation and clauses file (Sections G, H and I, much of K, and the start of L, including the site visit instruction, key personnel, key trades and bid guarantee clause), and the middle of the specifications.
- Attached but not read: the price schedule and limitation on subcontracting spreadsheets (Attachments 9 and 10), the cover form (Attachment 5a), and the drawings (Attachments 2a and 2b).
- Whether the site visit is required, and its date and place, are in Section L, which was not read.
- The set-aside is not stated on SAM.gov. The solicitation mentions small business evaluation and subcontracting forms, but whether the buy is set aside is not clear in the text read.
- Which wage rule applies: two Department of Labor wage determination files (Attachments 3 and 4, named for heavy/highway and building work) are attached but not read, so the Davis-Bacon (federal construction wage law) terms are unconfirmed.
- Bid guarantee amount and performance and payment bond amounts are not in the text read.
- The performance period fields on the SF 1442 (block 11) could not be matched to their labels; check the form on SAM.gov.
- Section L's instructions for what the Technical Approach, Management Approach and Schedule submissions must contain still show a template placeholder; ask the Contracting Officer what they require.
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, to the Contracting Officer (stormy_gallagher@ios.doi.gov), the Contract Specialist (daryl_hawkins@ios.doi.gov) and CS_DSC_Proposal_Submission@nps.gov. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- 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 23, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- National Park Service Contracting Activity, Denver, CO
- Product/service code
- Z2QA · Repair or Alteration of Restoration of Real Property (Public or Private)
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- Versions
3 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 23, 2026 · Solicitation (this version)Due Dec 7, 2026 (changed)
- Oct 6, 2026 · PresolicitationDate Nov 11, 2026
- Oct 5, 2026 · Special NoticeDate Nov 11, 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
Rehabilitate Effigy Mounds Visitor Center - Redesign and Repave Visitor Parking and Maintenance Area.