Sources Sought
VICK 209252 Stabilize Mint Spring Bayou & VICK 310725/324137 Stabilize Terraces
Department of the Interior · National Park Service · Sol. 140P2025R0060
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The National Park Service Denver Service Center is doing market research (sources sought, not a solicitation) for slope and terrace stabilization work at Vicksburg National Military Park and National Cemetery in Vicksburg, Mississippi. It covers two projects (Stabilize Terraces and Graves, and Stabilize Mint Spring Bayou), with construction magnitude over $15.0M and about 548 calendar days of performance. Large and small businesses are asked to respond; interest will decide whether the later solicitation is set aside for small business.
Things to watch
- Large project; bonding needed. At more than $15.0M with bid, performance and payment bonds expected, a small firm needs strong bonding capacity and similar-size experience.
The construction magnitude is more than $15.0M.
- Sources sought, not a solicitation. No proposals are accepted now; a response only helps the agency plan, and a later solicitation is not guaranteed to be set aside for small business.
This is a Sources Sought Notice (SSN) for the purpose of conducting market research.
- Sensitive site with limited staging. Work is in a national cemetery and cultural resource that stays open, with limited staging, protective measures and archaeological monitoring, which raises cost and schedule risk.
The Park will remain open during construction, thus contract activities and logistics must be structured
- Specialty geotechnical work. Soldier pile walls, permanent ground anchors and bank stabilization usually require specialty subcontractors or experience.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment.
- A14_SSN_VICK_209252___310725_324137_1.pdf
Full brief
What they want
- Terraces and Graves: about 272 linear feet of soldier pile and lagging retaining wall with an earthen buttress, plus drainage, paving, grading and turf work
- Terraces and Graves: restore a section of Given Hill Road
- Mint Spring Bayou: slope stabilization with high-capacity strand anchors, reinforced concrete anchor plates and reinforced granular fill
- Mint Spring Bayou: topographic survey, geotechnical exploration, environmental study and working drawings, aggregate drains and rip rap buttresses
- Stabilize the gap area between the cemetery's southwest corner and Mint Spring Bayou
- Archaeological and cultural monitoring of ground disturbance
- Keep the park open and protect the surrounding cultural resource during construction
- Period of performance
- Anticipated 548 calendar days including any potential weather shutdown; winter construction may be required
- Place of performance
- Vicksburg National Military Park and National Cemetery, Warren County, Vicksburg, MS
- Estimated value
- Construction magnitude is more than $15.0M
- Offers due
- 03:00 PM Mountain Time, April 2, 2025
- How to submit
- Email to Contracting Officer Carlos Garcia, carlos_garcia@nps.gov
What to include when you submit
- Company name, address, point of contact, phone, email, and UEI
- Business type: large or small under NAICS 237990, plus any HUBZone, VOSB, SDVOSB, WOSB or EDWOSB status
- Statement of bonding capacity (letters from bonding companies are not required at this time)
- Experience on projects of the same or similar size, scope and magnitude, built under similar conditions
- Optional: capability statements and brochures
You must have
- Bid, performance and payment bonds are anticipated for the later solicitation.
The NPS anticipates bid, performance and payment bonds will be required
- Small business size standard for NAICS 237990 is $45.0M; whether a set-aside will be used is undecided. SAM.gov currently shows no set-aside.
Small Business Size Standard: $45.0M
Not in the notice text
- Contract type and evaluation method for the later solicitation
- Whether the final solicitation will be set aside for small business
- Exact solicitation date (NPS anticipated the Summer of 2025)
- Whether the two projects will be awarded together
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Key facts
- Posted
- Mar 13, 2025
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Solicitation
- 140P2025R0060
- Agency
- Department of the Interior · National Park Service
- Office
- DSC Contracting Services Division
- NAICS
- 237990
- Product/service code
- Y1LB
- Business type
- Construction & renovation
- Contracting contact
- Garcia, Carloscarlos_garcia@nps.gov7209006595
What similar contracts paid
3 contracts at this agency for the same NAICS and product/service codes had activity in the last 5 years, according to USAspending.gov. Small businesses won 41% of the dollars in this market over the last 3 fiscal years.
Typical contract$1.3MMiddle half: $827K to $5.9M
Before you respond
Full notice text from SAM.gov
VICK 209252 Stabilize Mint Spring Bayou & VICK 310725/324137 Stabilize Terraces & Graves, Vicksburg National Military Park, Warren County, Vicksburg, MS
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