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Olympic National Park Floats Concessions Contract

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September 23, 2024
Lake Crescent Lodge Singer Tavern Cottages, Olympic National Park / Rebecca Latson

The National Park Service is seeking a concessions company for parts of Olympic National Park/Rebecca Latson file

The National Park Service is seeking proposals to run lodging, food and beverage, retail, and other commercial operations at Olympic National Park in Washington state.

The contract, projected to take effect February 1, 2026, would run for 12 years and cover commercial services at Lake Crescent Lodge, Log Cabin Resort, Fairholme Store, and Hurricane Ridge.

The Park Service anticipates the winning company would need to make a $2.55 million investment in the properties during the first of the contract. Expected gross revenues for the first year range from $8.3 million- $9.2 million.

Minimum franchise fees that would be due the Park Service are 6 percent of gross receipts for gross receipts from $0 to $7 million; 8 percent of gross receipts for gross receipts from $7,000,001 to $10 million; 12 percent of gross receipts for gross receipts greater than $10 million.

Log Cabin Resort features a total of 28 lodging units, consisting of midscale lodge rooms (motel-style units), A-frame chalets, and newer two-bedroom cabin units, as well as rustic camper cabins. Lake Crescent Lodge has 55 midscale lodging units including rooms in the main lodge building with shared bathrooms, historic Singer Tavern Cottages, Roosevelt Fireplace Cabins, and motel-style units in the Storm King, Marymere, and Pyramid Mountain buildings.

Log Cabin Resort offers family casual service for breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the café overlooking Lake Crescent, with a menu featuring sandwiches, salads, pasta, pizzas, and a variety of dinner entrees. The café has approximately 60 seats. There is also a counter in the main lodge building retail area offering grab-andgo items. Lake Crescent Lodge features an upscale casual lakefront dining room (restaurant) offering breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, and features creative Pacific Northwest farm to table cuisine. The dining room has approximately 75 seats. There is also a lounge adjacent to the dining room in the lobby of the main building.

The Fairholme Store offers grab-and-go food and beverage service, including prepackaged items and snacks.

The concession-operated campground at Log Cabin Resort has a total of 38 sites. There are 31 RV sites, which include electric hook-ups, and 7 tent sites with fine grade gravel tent pads, four of which are standard tent sites, one group tent site, and two bike tent sites. The concessioner could choose to adjust the mx of RV, tent, group, and bike tent sites. All sites include individual fire rings and picnic tables. There is a RV dump station and a comfort station with toilets, coin operated showers, and coin-operated laundry located at the resort. 

The contract calls for the winning bidder to complete all deferred maintenance and legislatively-mandated projects (totalling a combined ~$850,000) within the first two years of the agreement. It also calls for the winning bidder to construct a new comfort station, five new employee housing RV sites, a new boat dock, and rehabilitate the main building bathrooms. 

Questions regarding the prospectus must be received, in writing, no later than 12 p.m. (Pacific Time) on September 30. Email your questions to Kimberley Gagliolo, Commercial Services Specialist, at [email protected]Any interested party intending to submit a proposal must submit a "Notice of Intent to Propose" as described in the Business Opportunity and Proposal Instructions, no later than 12 p.m. (Pacific Time) on November 21, 2024.

The NPS is only accepting electronic proposals in response to this prospectus. Any proposal must be received electronically, no later than 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on December 19, 2024, in the format outline in the Proposal Instructions, to be evaluated for award of the new concession contract.

If you choose to retrieve a copy of the prospectus, notify Kimberley Gagliolo at [email protected] so you are placed on the mailing list to receive notifications of any future modifications or correspondence.

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