Solicitation
Residential Reentry Center (RRC) Services and Home Confinement Services Located Within the City Limits of New Orleans, Louisiana
Department of Justice · Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons
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AI summaryThe Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) wants one contractor to run a Residential Reentry Center (RRC, a halfway house for federal offenders) and home confinement services in New Orleans, Louisiana, under solicitation 15BRRC26R00000012. The contract is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with firm-fixed unit prices: one base year plus four option years. The response due date is December 29, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern. More in the summary
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This summary may miss requirements: 4 of 16 attachments weren't read (07 15BRRC26R00000012 Sample Community Notification Letter.pdf, 06 15BRRC26R00000012 Environmental Checklist.pdf and 2 more). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) wants one contractor to run a Residential Reentry Center (RRC, a halfway house for federal offenders) and home confinement services in New Orleans, Louisiana, under solicitation 15BRRC26R00000012. The contract is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with firm-fixed unit prices: one base year plus four option years. The response due date is December 29, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern.
Who can bid
- A facility site inside the New Orleans city limits that the offeror has the right to use, with the zoning approval needed; home confinement radius is 100 miles of the facility
- Signed certification that the facility complies with local, state and federal laws on safety, zoning, occupancy, accessibility (Architectural Barriers Act) and air exchange
- Vendor attestation (marked as a BOP proposed attestation) that DOJ data is stored in the United States and accessed only by U.S. citizens, with security controls in place
How to submit: Email to Kevin Hoff, Contract Specialist, khoff@bop.gov (the cover letter says the Business, Technical/Management and Past Performance proposals are submitted by email). 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 26, 2026.
- Serious: Need a ready site in New Orleans, operating within 240 days of award. Offerors must propose a specific facility with a valid right to use and zoning approval, and show a plan to open within 240 days after award; a business without a site is unlikely to compete.
- Serious: One provider for both in-house RRC and home confinement. The BOP intends a single award covering both services, so an offeror must be able to price and run both.
- Worth checking: BOP on-site inspection of the proposed facility after proposals arrive. The BOP will visit the proposed site before any negotiations, so the facility and an authorized contact must be ready when proposals are in.
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- Worth checking: Award may be made without discussions. The first proposal may be the only chance to fix problems, so it must be complete and priced as final.
- Worth checking: Pricing across several population tiers. Prices must cover a fixed monthly rate for a small population and day rates for larger ones, so costs depend on how many offenders the BOP sends.
- Worth checking: Past performance counts more than the technical plan. Firms with no relevant record are not rated up or down on past performance, but others with a record may score higher.
- Worth checking: Optional resident smartphones with GPS tracking and biometrics. The BOP may require the contractor to supply smartphones, decided at award, which could add cost and technology work.
- Minor: One-hour breach reporting under the vendor attestation. The proposed attestation requires reporting any actual or suspected breach of DOJ information within one hour of discovery.
- Minor: Staff training required before working with residents. Staff need 40 hours of training before working with federal residents, plus yearly training and background investigations, which affects hiring and start-up cost.
Read from the notice and 12 attachments. 4 of 16 not read. Show which files.
- 04 15BRRC26R00000012 Statement of Work - 2022.pdf (read)
- 03 15BRRC26R00000012 Solicitation Document.pdf (read)
- 02 15BRRC26R00000012 Solicitation Cover Sheet.pdf (read)
- 01 15BRRC26R00000012 Solicitation Cover Letter.pdf (read)
- 16 15BRRC26R00000012 FBOP ATU Vendor Attestation.pdf (read)
- 15 15BRRC26R00000012 Subcontracting Plan.pdf (read)
- 13 15BRRC26R00000012 Local Area Concerns.pdf (read)
- 12 15BRRC26R00000012 RRC Cert of Compliance.pdf (read)
- 11 15BRRC26R00000012 Compliance Matrix - 2022.pdf (read)
- 10 15BRRC26R00000012 Service Contract Business Management.pdf (read)
- 09 15BRRC26R00000012 Sample Bank Notification Letter.pdf (read)
- 08 15BRRC26R00000012 Sample Client Notification Letter.pdf (read)
- 07 15BRRC26R00000012 Sample Community Notification Letter.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 06 15BRRC26R00000012 Environmental Checklist.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 05 15BRRC26R00000012 Performance Summary Table.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 14 15BRRC26R00000012 Wage Determination.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Run an in-house RRC for male and female federal offenders in a facility inside the New Orleans city limits
- Provide home confinement services for offenders within 100 miles of the RRC facility
- Price each year on tiers of average daily population (ADP, the average number of offenders per day), from a fixed monthly rate up to day rates for higher counts
- Run accountability and security procedures, drug testing, discipline and escape procedures under the BOP Statement of Work (SOW)
- Provide programs such as individualized program plans, a cognitive behavioral program and links to community resources
- Staff the center and train staff, including 40 hours of training on duties before working with federal residents
- Have the facility ready to operate within 240 days after contract award, with food services, medical services and records and reports
- Option for the BOP to require resident smartphones with GPS tracking and biometrics, decided at award
- Contract type
- Indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with firm-fixed unit prices
- Period of performance
- 1 base year + 4 one-year option years, plus an option to extend services up to 6 months (FAR 52.217-8)
- Place of performance
- RRC facility within the city limits of New Orleans, Louisiana; home confinement within 100 miles of the RRC facility
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- Best value: price and other factors considered; award may be made without discussions
- Offers due
- December 29, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email to Kevin Hoff, Contract Specialist, khoff@bop.gov (the cover letter says the Business, Technical/Management and Past Performance proposals are submitted by email)
What they'll judge offers on
- Past Performance (more important than Technical/Management): In-House RRC Accountability, Programs, Community Relations, Personnel, Communications and Responsiveness; Home Confinement (Accountability, Programming)
- Technical/Management: (1) Site Location (Site Validity and Suitability; Community Relations Program), (2) Accountability, (3) Programs, (4) Facility, (5) Personnel, (6) Home Confinement (Accountability, Programming)
- Price: checked for reasonableness; evaluated from the monthly rate times 12 plus an average daily rate across the day-rate tiers times the maximum billable days
What to include when you submit
- Send three proposals: Business, Technical/Management and Past Performance Information, following Section L of the solicitation
- Business proposal: a cover letter with firm rates for the base period and each option year (sliding scales are not acceptable)
- Business proposal also includes Section A (Solicitation, Offer and Award), Section B (prices), the applicable Section J attachments and Section K (representations and certifications)
- Technical/Management proposal: a separate cover sheet giving the place of performance and a contact person who can obligate the offeror, with a telephone number, who will be present during the on-site evaluation
- Price all tiers: monthly rate for in-house ADP of 20 or less, and day rates for 21-30, 31-40 and 41 or more; monthly rate for home confinement ADP of 8 or less, and day rates for 9-12, 13-16 and 17 or more
- Complete the RRC Contract Facility Certification of Compliance and the Local Area Concerns table (facilities within a half-mile of the site that may raise public concern)
- Send the FBOP vendor information security attestation, listed among the attachments, if it applies
- Proposals must stay valid at least 240 days from the date the solicitation closes
- Prepare each proposal as the final proposal revision, because the BOP may award without discussions
After award, you must have
- Enroll in E-Verify (the federal employment eligibility system) within 30 calendar days after contract award From 01 15BRRC26R00000012 Solicitation Cover Letter.pdf:
E-Verify Program at the time of potential contract award have thirty (30) calendar days within…
Not in the notice text
- Much of the solicitation (Sections C through L, including the Section L proposal instructions, page limits and file format rules) and the middle of the Statement of Work were left out of the text read; they are in the documents on SAM.gov.
- Four attachments are attached but not read: the Sample Community Notification Letter, the Environmental Checklist, the Performance Summary Table and the Wage Determination (14 15BRRC26R00000012 Wage Determination.pdf).
- The set-aside is not stated on SAM.gov, and whether the attached BOP subcontracting plan template must be submitted is not visible in the text read.
- No question deadline or other dated step before the response due date appears in the text read; questions go to the Contracting Officer at the email and phone in block 10 of the Standard Form 33.
- The Government's estimate, guaranteed minimum and maximum quantities are not stated; the price schedule lists only units (12 MO or 1 DY) with blank prices.
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 to Kevin Hoff, Contract Specialist, khoff@bop.gov (the cover letter says the Business, Technical/Management and Past Performance proposals are submitted by email). Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 26, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- Residential Reentry - Co, Washington, DC
- Product/service code
- G004 · Social – Social Rehabilitation
- Business type
- Medical & healthcare (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 623990)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 26, 2026 · Solicitation (this version)Due Dec 29, 2026
- Sep 24, 2026 · PresolicitationNo date on SAM.gov
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
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Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
RRC Services and Home Confinement Services Located Within the City Limits of new Orleans, Louisiana.
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