R--DK ONSITE RESCUE TEAM

This contract, titled DK ONSITE RESCUE TEAM, is a firm-fixed price solicitation under a total small business set-aside with NAICS code 561990 and a size standard of $16.5 million, issued by the Department of the Interior’s Great Plains Regional Office. The solicitation, numbered 140R6026Q0077, was posted on June 2, 2026, with responses due by July 14, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time. Performance is required at six Bureau of Reclamation facilities across Wyoming and South Dakota, including Keyhole State Park, Shadehill, Belle Fourche Reservoir, Pactola Dam, Angostura Irrigation District, and Deerfield Reservoir. The scope requires a trained and qualified rescue team to be onsite during the operation, testing, and inspection of emergency, regulating, and radial gates in outlet works, with team members holding appropriate certifications to comply with Reclamation Safety and Health Standards (RSHS) Section 1.12 for permit-required confined space entry. The contract period spans from October 1, 2026, to September 30, 2031, with a base year and four option years, each entailing eight hours of service per facility per year except for Belle Fourche Reservoir’s Option Year 4, which is unspecified. The evaluation process includes two mandatory pass/fail gates: submission of detailed means and methods for rescue services and completion of the full price schedule; failure in either results in non-responsiveness. Award will be determined through a tradeoff analysis where technical approach and past performance, roughly equal in importance, are weighed more heavily than price. Payment must be processed exclusively through the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP), and contractors must register for access within three to five business days of award via instructions from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, unless a written waiver is submitted with the proposal. All contractors must maintain active SAM registration, comply with representations and certifications incorporated by reference under FAR 52.204-19, and adhere to postaward small business rerepresentation requirements. Security requirements include compliance with Reclamation’s information security policies, employee suitability determinations, and protection of controlled unclassified information as defined under the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act; noncompliance may lead to removal of personnel or contract termination at no cost to the government