Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Scaffolding for Repair and Repoint Chalmette Monum
Department of the Interior
AI summaryThe Interior Business Center (Department of the Interior) wants quotes, for the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC), to design, build, rent and remove scaffolding around the roughly 100-foot Chalmette Monument in Chalmette, Louisiana. It is a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) design-build job set aside for small businesses, and performance and payment bonds are required. SAM.gov gives the response due date as November 6, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern, but the request for quotation (RFQ) text says 1:00 PM ET; a site visit is October 28, 2026. More in the summary
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This summary may miss requirements: 2 of 8 attachments weren't read (B08_SOL_Attachment_2_Pricing_Spreadsheet.xlsx, B08_SOL_Attachment_6_Limitation_on_Subcontracting_Report_Template.xlsx). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Interior Business Center (Department of the Interior) wants quotes, for the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC), to design, build, rent and remove scaffolding around the roughly 100-foot Chalmette Monument in Chalmette, Louisiana. It is a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) design-build job set aside for small businesses, and performance and payment bonds are required. SAM.gov gives the response due date as November 6, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern, but the request for quotation (RFQ) text says 1:00 PM ET; a site visit is October 28, 2026.
Who can bid
- Small business under NAICS 238990, All Other Specialty Trade Contractors (size standard $19 million); this is a total small business set-aside
- Active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) with annual representations and certifications completed
- Show with the quote an ability to be bonded for this project
How to submit: Email to the contracting officer at sarah_ignacio@ibc.doi.gov, with solicitation number 140D0427Q0915 in the subject. 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 13, 2026.
- Serious: Total small business set-aside. Only small businesses under NAICS 238990 (size standard $19 million) can send quotes, and a Limitations on Subcontracting clause (52.219-14) applies to how much work can be passed to others.
- Serious: Bonds required. Performance and payment bonds must be in place before the notice to proceed, and evidence of bonding ability goes in the price volume, so a firm without bonding cannot take this job.
- Worth checking: Funds not presently available. The Government can cancel the solicitation before award and will not make an award until funds become available.
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- Worth checking: Site visit on October 28, 2026; email by October 23, 2026 to attend. The site visit is at 9:30 AM Central at the Chalmette Visitor Center; the text does not say attendance is required, and the site address is sent only after the attendee list is emailed.
- Worth checking: Demanding past performance examples. Past projects are judged on scaffolding about 100 feet or higher, self-supporting designs with no drilling, heavy platforms and historic sites, which is hard for a firm without similar work.
- Worth checking: Price and technical must be in separate volumes. Putting price in Volume I or technical information in Volume II breaks the instructions and can make the quote unacceptable.
- Worth checking: Engineered, stamped drawings required after award. The contractor must pay for engineered stamped shop drawings of a roughly 100-foot scaffold, with the Government reviewing them within set days, so price in the engineering cost.
- Minor: Park timeline controlled by the Park. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park has final approval of the construction timeline, and the site turnover date of 1/19/2027 is only anticipated.
- Minor: Davis-Bacon wage rates apply. Prices must follow the attached Davis-Bacon wage determination; its text could not be read here, so check the wage determination file on SAM.gov.
Read from the notice and 6 attachments. 2 of 8 not read. Show which files.
- Sol_140D0427Q0915.pdf (read)
- B08_SOL_140D0427Q0915_Chalmette_Scaffolding.pdf (read)
- B08_SOL_Attachment_1_Statement_of_Work.pdf (read)
- B08_SOL_Attachment_3_Questions_Form.docx (read)
- B08_SOL_Attachment_4_Davis_Bacon_Wage_Rates.pdf (read)
- B08_SOL_Attachment_5_Past_Performance_Questionnaire.docx (read)
- B08_SOL_Attachment_2_Pricing_Spreadsheet.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- B08_SOL_Attachment_6_Limitation_on_Subcontracting_Report_Template.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Design, erect, maintain and dismantle OSHA-compliant (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) scaffolding on all four sides of the Chalmette Monument, about 100 feet tall, with engineered stamped shop drawings.
- No drilling or attaching to the stone, and the roughly 41-foot-square base cannot be the only load-bearing surface.
- Include a hoisting bay for a 1-ton electric hoist (contractor supplies the hoist; Government supplies a generator), five staging platforms of at least 1,000 pounds each and five water-tank platform decks of at least 3,000 pounds each.
- Add debris netting, a staircase, fully planked levels with guard rails and toe boards, and overhead protection at the front entrance rated at least 150 P.S.F.; keep interior access open from the front entrance.
- Keep the scaffold available for a three-month rental while HPTC does masonry repairs; the contractor does monthly inspections and mobilizes and demobilizes outside that window.
- Get all licenses and permits, including Louisiana requirements, and carry liability and property damage insurance.
- After award: give the contracting officer's representative (COR) a Submittal Register within ten business days after notice to proceed (NTP), and resubmit final drawings within 30 calendar days after HPTC's design review notice.
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP) commercial design-build construction purchase order, issued under Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) Part 12
- Period of performance
- 150 days from Notice to Proceed (NTP), covering design, construction and a three-month scaffold rental; site turnover is anticipated on 1/19/2027 and demobilization is targeted for April 26 to April 30
- Place of performance
- Chalmette Monument, 1 Battlefield Rd, Chalmette, LA 70043, in Chalmette Battlefield Park (the statement of work lists Lafitte St., New Orleans, LA 70119)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- Best value trade-off: the Government plans to award from initial quotes without exchanges; the two non-price factors combined outweigh price
- Offers due
- November 6, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email to the contracting officer at sarah_ignacio@ibc.doi.gov, with solicitation number 140D0427Q0915 in the subject
- Page limits
- Volume I (General and Technical): 25 pages, 11-point font, single-spaced, 1-inch margins; structural engineering drawings, scaffolding layout schematics and the 1-ton hoist manufacturer specifications do not count. Volume II (Price): no page limit
What they'll judge offers on
- Factor 1, Technical and Engineering Approach (most important; one confidence rating): (a) schematic scaffold plan, (b) ability to meet the installation date, (c) mobilization and site protection
- Factor 2, Past Performance (second; confidence rating): recent (completed within five years of the due date) and relevant projects
- Factor 3, Price (third): price analysis for fairness and reasonableness
What to include when you submit
- Send two separate volumes: Volume I, General and Technical, and Volume II, Price. Put no price information in Volume I and no technical information in Volume II.
- Subject line: solicitation number and project title, for example 140D0427Q0915, Scaffolding for Chalmette Monument.
- Volume I, Section 1: a cover sheet with company name, address, Unique Entity ID, Taxpayer Identification Number, socioeconomic status, primary and alternate contacts, phone, email, solicitation number, quote date, subcontractors and their status, prompt payment terms, a statement of agreement with all terms and amendments, who may negotiate, and a statement that the quote expires no sooner than 90 days after submission.
- Volume I: complete and return the Information Regarding Responsibility Matters provision (52.209-7) and the Tax on Certain Foreign Procurements provision (52.229-11); complete annual representations and certifications in SAM.
- Factor 1: a schematic scaffold plan (engineered stamped drawings are not needed with the quote), a schedule with an approximate freight delivery schedule showing the mobilization and demobilization dates, and a detailed mobilization plan covering protection of the historic monument.
- Factor 2 past performance: a narrative of a minimum of one and a maximum of three relevant projects completed within the last five years as of the solicitation due date, with contract number, agency, contact, initial and final dollar value and performance dates.
- For each past project, explain how it shows heavy-duty system scaffolding about 100 feet or higher, self-supporting design with no drilling or anchoring, loads such as 3,000+ pound platforms or hoists, and work at historic or protected sites. The attached Past Performance Questionnaire (Attachment 5) may be sent with the quote or directly to the contracting officer by the reference before the due time.
- Volume II: price assumptions and any exceptions to the terms (only in this section), the completed Standard Form 1442 (the signed offer form) and the Pricing Spreadsheet (Attachment 2) left in its original format with totals and subtotals, and evidence of ability to obtain bonding with the bonding company's name, address and phone number.
- Send written questions by email, naming the document, page and paragraph; Attachment 3, the Questions Form, can be used.
- Hold prices firm for 90 calendar days from the date quotes are due.
After award, you must have
- Furnish performance and payment bonds and insurance before the notice to proceed is issued From B08_SOL_140D0427Q0915_Chalmette_Scaffolding.pdf:
Performance and Payment Bonds (See FAR 52.228-15 and submit in accordance with…
Not in the notice text
- The Pricing Spreadsheet (Attachment 2) and the Limitation on Subcontracting Report Template (Attachment 6) are attached but not read, so the line items and report format are unknown.
- The Davis-Bacon wage determination (Attachment 4) could not be read here, so its wage rates and county are unknown.
- The text does not say whether attending the October 28, 2026 site visit is required.
- The number of days to furnish bonds, the bond amounts and the insurance limits are not stated in the text read.
- The Government's estimate or budget for the job is not stated.
- The Government's award date and the notice to proceed date are not stated.
Eligibility and how to respond
- Set aside for small businesses: only a business that counts as small under this notice's NAICS code can bid as the prime contractor. More open small business set-asides under NAICS 238990
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to the contracting officer at sarah_ignacio@ibc.doi.gov, with solicitation number 140D0427Q0915 in the subject. 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 13, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Office
- Ibc Acq SVCS Directorate (00004), Herndon, VA
- Product/service code
- Y1PZ · Construction of Other Non-Building Facilities
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 238990)
- 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
- Set-aside contracts explained
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
This is a Solicitation announcement for Scaffolding for Repair and Repoint Chalmette Monument, Louisiana. A pre-proposal site visit has been scheduled. Details are included in the Solicitation document.