The Contracting Services (CS) group of the Denver Service Center (DSC) is the largest contracting office in the National Park Service (NPS) and serves the Associate Director for Professional Services in Washington, DC.

• BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
• OUR SERVICES
• CONTRACTING PROFESSIONALS' RESOURCE
• WHO WE ARE

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

The NPS has migrated to an electronic commerce environment for the majority of its acquisition/procurement activity. If you want to do business with the National Park Service (or any Department of the Interior (DOI) bureau), detailed guidance and registration information is found on our electronic commerce site at http://ideasec.nbc.gov.

When you access the web site, you can:

• Review all requirements posted by DOI bureaus and offices
• Search for and read any open RFQ, IFB and RFP
• Quote on RFQs before the posted closing dates
• Receive electronic awards and notices for RFQs
• Download solicitation packages and drawings as desired.

There is no cost to you for this service. Competing for business with NPS and DOI electronically is painless and simple. To take advantage of future opportunities electronically with NPS and DOI, you must:

• Obtain a valid Dun & Bradstreet Number (D&B) from Dun & Bradstreet through the Internet (http://www.dnb.com) or by calling them at 1-800-333-0505. Only vendors with valid D&Bs may submit a quote.
• Register your firm at our electronic commerce web site http://IDEASec.nbc.gov.

Central registration will not only alleviate the need for you to submit a separate bidder's application to each office, the information can be used to notify you when we have a requirement within your capability. You have control over updating the information about your firm so that we can match your capabilities electronically with our needs.

Using 4.0 or newer versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape provides the best results. Your local Small Business Administration should also be able to help you and provide access to a personal computer if you do not have one.

Business and Economic Development (BUDS) Program

If you are a small, disadvantaged, women-owned business, or an 8(a) contractor and wish to pursue contracting opportunities with NPS, please call our automated telephone recording at 303-969-2650. We are regularly seeking construction and architectural and engineering firms to perform work for the National Park Service.

Department of Interior, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization
http://www.doi.gov/osdbu/

Small Business Administration http://www.sba.gov/

OUR SERVICES

Besides being the designated contracting office for the majority of the line item construction programs of  NPS including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Funded Construction, the CS group provides a wide variety of services to parks and regions in the national park system, as well as to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, and U.S. Forest Service (Department of Agriculture).

• Solicits, negotiates, awards, and administers IDIQ Professional Services contracts and purchase orders (under $100,000) for:
  • Construction planning (design)
  • GIS services and geotechnical engineering
  • Plant propagation
  • Noise and vibration evaluation
  • Archeological investigations and evaluations
  • Hazardous material surveys
  • Aerial photography and topographical surveying
  • Utility surveys
  • Construction management
  • Financial analysis services
  • Boundary and construction layout surveys
  • Transportation and traffic engineering
  • Historic resources
  • Cultural landscape inventories
  • Ethnographic resource studies
  • Artifact analysis
  • Environmental assessments
  • General Management Plans
• Negotiates, awards, and administers task orders against existing contracts to accommodate the needs of in-house project managers, regions, parks, and other agencies
• Solicits, evaluates, negotiates, awards, and administers construction contracts (generally over $100,000) for the NPS line item construction program, as well as the Fee Demonstration Program and other fund sources

Harpers Ferry Center maintains a searchable online database of the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts for use by the entire service

WHO WE ARE

Each team also consists of a full complement of contract specialists and procurement technicians to accomplish the work of the program.