UPDATE Request for Bids for Food Trucks at Baker Beach within Golden Gate National Recreation Area
National Park Service · PWR PACIFIC WEST REGION(80000)
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation GOGA0XX-26 in this department, oldest first.
Next steps for this stage
Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.
- Decide bid or no bid before the response deadline.
- Look at the past winners for likely competitors and teaming partners.
- Follow the opportunity to hear about amendments and the award.
What the notice says
The National Park Service (NPS) has released on July 13, 2026, a Request for Bids (RFB) to award up to two (2) one-year leases to operate mobile food & beverage vending (food trucks) at Baker Beach within Golden Gate National Recreation Area. With year-round visitor traffic for sightseeing and recreation, this pilot provides operators with the chance to reach new customers and offer a new type of visitor services at Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The projected start date of the lease is approximately four to six weeks following bid submission, if selected. Each lease will provide an ass… (show all)
igned parking space in the Baker Beach parking lot. Precise locations and parking space sizes are detailed in the RFB and Draft Lease. The NPS will not be accepting questions or offering a site visit as part of this solicitation. Interested parties are welcome to visit the site during the solicitation window. Please note that the NPS is concurrently soliciting bids for similar operations at Rodeo Beach, located in the Marin Headlands. Interested parties should respond to the RFB for the food truck location they are most interested in. If an interested individual or entity is interested in both locations, they must submit a response to each RFB separately. Submission of an Electronic Proposal The NPS is ONLY accepting electronic bids in response to this solicitation. Bids will be accepted on a rolling basis until all locations have been leased, or the Service discontinues this solicitation. Bids are due weekly, on Fridays by 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time), via email to PWR_Commercial_Services@nps.gov, to be evaluated for award of the new lease.
Who won similar work
1746 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (National Park Service), any industry: a loose match.
Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOLUTION GUIDANCE CORPORATION | 42 | $616K | Sep 22, 2026 |
| HDR ENGINEERING INC | 36 | $8.0M + 1 shared | Sep 24, 2026 |
| PROJECT SOLUTIONS, INC. | 18 | $5.6M | Aug 25, 2026 |
| OTAK, INC. | 16 | $40.9M + 1 shared | Sep 23, 2026 |
| AMERICAN CLASSIC CONSTRUCTION INC. | 16 | $1.2M | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Strata Architecture Inc. | 14 | $2.4M | Jul 23, 2026 |
| DHM DESIGN CORPORATION | 13 | $9.1M + 1 shared | Sep 24, 2026 |
| The Schemmer Associates Inc. | 12 | $1.0M | Jul 31, 2026 |
| CLASSIC SITE SOLUTIONS INC | 10 | $31.8M | Sep 25, 2026 |
| STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES INC. | 10 | $4.5M + 1 shared | Sep 17, 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.
- Oct 16, 20262 GRADE, LLC$640KY--OLYM - FAIRHOLME CG ABAAS IMPROVEMENTS
- Oct 6, 2026VANTAGE VEHICLE INTERNATIONAL, INC$69K23--CHAM Two 2-Door Lithium Trucks and Accessories
- Oct 5, 2026ARK CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT LLC$695KZ--GATE-REHAB ROOF-BLDG 40
- Sep 28, 2026WATERFLEET, LLC$8.0MV--GRCA SOUTH RIM EMERGENCY WATER HAULING
- Sep 28, 2026M3 INTEGRATED SERVICES, INC.$8.1MY--GOGA CONSTRUCT STINSON LG TOWER & CAFE
- Sep 28, 2026JUSTUS CORPORATION$411KJ--GWMP - BACKUP GENERATOR REPLACEMENT AND PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE
- Sep 26, 2026CLEARFIELD CONSTRUCTION LLC$354KY--BIBE CONSTRUCT ASTRO VIEWING PLATFORM
- Sep 26, 2026PACE COLLABORATIVE, PLLC$5.0M (shared ceiling)C--Multiple Award IDIQ- Professional Fire Protection Engineering and Fire Protection Related Facility Management Services
- Sep 26, 2026PACE COLLABORATIVE, PLLC$47KC--Multiple Award IDIQ- Professional Fire Protection Engineering and Fire Protection Related Facility Management Services
- Sep 25, 2026JACOBS GOVERNMENT SERVICES COMPANY$3.8MC--Nationwide General Architect/Engineering (A/E) Pro
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 Natl Park Service (NPS) since 2024 (0 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Natl Park Service (NPS) job
- No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
- 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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
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
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.