Special NoticePosted Aug 26, 2026·Responses due Aug 28, 2026

Intent to Award BPA Call Order

Forest Service · USDA-FS, CSA NORTHWEST 2

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
712110
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
1240BD26Q0022
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
9905
Place
Lolo, MT, USA
Contact
Mindy Hickman (mindy.hickman@usda.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 1240BD26Q0022 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 26, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 18, 2026 to Jan 13, 2027, middle of the range Nov 19, 2026.
Measured from 92 past early notices at Forest Service that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 26, 2026).

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

1.0 Description of Intent This Special Notice is prepared and publicized on SAM.gov in accordance with the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) streamlined public notice framework under FAR Part 5 and commercial services processing. The USDA Forest Service, Procurement & Property Services (PPS), CSA Northwest 2 office hereby synopsizes its intent to award a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Call Order against an established Multiple-Award Master BPA. The requirement is restricted to pre-approved, eligible companies holding active agreements under Master BPA vehicle 12318721A0… (show all)

018 and 12318721A0019. 2.0 Scope of Work Overview The successful contractor must provide complete professional design, tactile fabrication, delivery, and installation services for renovated interior and exterior exhibits at the Lolo Pass Visitor Center. The underlying requirement is broken into the following prioritized schedules and option segments: Priority 1 (Main Exhibit Room): Redesigning and executing the "Passages Across the Lolo Trail" layouts, including geological forces, indigenous tribal heritage (Nimiipuu and Salish), Lewis and Clark expedition history, and Forest Service history displays. Priority 2 (Front Porch & Entrance Areas): Developing "Mountains of Fun" informational bulletin boards, updating weather-resistant trail maps, and structural orientation signage. Priority 3 (Back Porch Exterior): Refurbishing reader rails and weather-resistant bases for "The Elusive Lynx" exhibit. Options 1 through 4: Provisions for interpretive panels detailing a new Core-Ten steel sculpture, redesigning the centralized Topographic Relief Map log base table, engineering digital fillable public weather/fire data templates, and relocating Daughters of the American Revolution / National Register of Historic Places plaques. All designs must completely eliminate electronic interface dependencies, avoid moving parts, maximize log-cabin space ergonomics, and explicitly adhere to the Smithsonian Guidelines for Accessible Exhibition Design alongside Forest Service Manual (FSM) 7160 signage protocols. 4.0 Response Instructions & Capacity Inquiries THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES OR OPEN PROPOSALS. A formal open solicitation package will not be issued. This synopsis serves exclusively to satisfy public notification requirements for multi-award schedule call-ordering transparency. The Call Order will be issued directly via secure electronic transmission to the approved small business vendors listed on the parental BPA vehicle. However, any certified small business under NAICS 712110 that possesses the specialized capacity to perform tactile museum-grade curation matching these metrics, or any vendor seeking consideration for onboarding to future continuous-open iterations of this Master BPA framework, may submit an organizational file. To be logged for future market research, interest profiles must include: Full Organization Name, Active UEI, and physical address profile. Targeted capability statement demonstrating historical work with log-built/irregular surface mounting and tactile casting. Verification of operational status as a Small Business under the $30M threshold. All capability packages must be sent electronically to the primary point of contact via email, reference tracking ID: 1240BD26Q0022_SPECIAL_NOTICE. The government will not furnish formal feedback or individual point ratings regarding submissions received in response to this synopsis.

Who won similar work

1513 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Forest Service), any industry: a loose match.

Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
RELIANCE CONTRACTORS INC21$1.8MAug 28, 2026
THREE STRIPES CONTRACTING LLC10$954KSep 15, 2026
FORTAZO CORP.8$781KSep 17, 2026
GERMRIP LLC8$707KSep 17, 2026
JUDD BUICK CONSTRUCTION, INC.7$7.6MMay 19, 2026
Xplicit Technologies LLC7$463KApr 30, 2026
GRANITE COMMERCIAL SERVICE LLC6$1.9MJul 15, 2026
THE COBUILDERS LLC6$396KAug 3, 2026
KING MATTHEW R De Pere WI 54115 USA6$168KMay 14, 2026
ABSOLUTE FORESTRY LLC5$9.8MSep 14, 2026

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied U.S. Forest Service since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past U.S. Forest Service job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 15 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards.

  • 0 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.