Sources Sought
Sources Sought, Janitorial Services at Hoover Dam
Department of the Interior
AI summaryThe Bureau of Reclamation (Lower Colorado Dams Office, Hoover Dam) is doing market research for janitorial services at Hoover Dam. This is a sources sought notice, not a request for proposals, quotations or bids. Interested firms send a short capability email by the response due date of November 4, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern. The planned contract is 1 base year plus 4 option years. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Department of the Interior who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
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The Bureau of Reclamation (Lower Colorado Dams Office, Hoover Dam) is doing market research for janitorial services at Hoover Dam. This is a sources sought notice, not a request for proposals, quotations or bids. Interested firms send a short capability email by the response due date of November 4, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern. The planned contract is 1 base year plus 4 option years.
Who can bid
- Active System for Award Management (SAM) registration is required when a quotation or offer is submitted for any future solicitation
How to submit: Email to Kristen Turner, Contract Specialist, at Kristen_turner@ios.doi.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 21, 2026.
- Minor: Sources sought only, not a solicitation. Nothing can be bid on yet; replying only helps the agency decide how to buy, and it does not guarantee you can bid later.
- Minor: Set-aside not decided. SAM.gov shows no set-aside; the agency says responses will help decide whether to set the work aside for small businesses.
- Minor: Size standard $22M. Your business must be at or under the $22M size standard for NAICS 561720 to count as small for this work.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. Show which files.
- Sources_Sought_Notice_1.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Janitorial cleaning at Hoover Dam, which gets almost one million visitors a year on the official tour
- Customer service and quality control as part of the cleaning work
- All management, personnel, supervision, labor, subcontractors, materials, supplies and equipment
- Planning, scheduling and coordinating all work in the performance work statement (PWS: the document that lists the tasks)
- The contractor decides how often to clean beyond the PWS minimum, the labor types, the methods and the supplies
- Period of performance
- 1 base year + 4 option years
- Place of performance
- Hoover Dam (named in the attachment); SAM.gov's place of performance field is blank
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 4, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email to Kristen Turner, Contract Specialist, at Kristen_turner@ios.doi.gov
What to include when you submit
- Send business name, address, unique entity ID (UEI), and size classification based on the NAICS size standard ($22M for NAICS 561720)
- Send your socioeconomic classification (for example SDVOSB, Small Disadvantaged Business, EDWOSB/WOSB, HUBZone or 8(a))
- Send a point of contact with name, title, phone number and email address
Current contractor
No incumbent, follow-on or previous contract number is named.
Not in the notice text
- The performance work statement (PWS), cleaning frequencies, square footage and staffing needs are not in the attached notice.
- The Government's estimate or contract value is not given.
- Whether this will be set aside for a small business program is not decided.
- Contract type, the planned solicitation date and the planned start date are not stated.
- SAM.gov's place of performance field is blank; only the title and text name Hoover Dam.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside. Any business can reply: this is market research, and no bid is being taken yet.
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 21, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- Reclamation Contracting Activity, Denver, CO
- Product/service code
- S201 · Housekeeping – Custodial Janitorial
- Business type
- Facilities, janitorial & grounds (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 561720)
- 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
Terms on this notice: Sources sought notice
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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