N--IN Patoka River NWR - Rip Rap Placement - Oatsvill

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05-08-26

Rationale

The Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge rip-rap placement contract is a $6,000 federal award for erosion-control stonework at a remote refuge site near Oatsville, Indiana. The scope is limited. placing armoring stone along a riverbank segment. but the site's remoteness and the refuge's equipment-storage pattern create a surveillance angle. Wildlife refuges operate skeletal staffing outside daylight hours, and contractor equipment staged overnight is a theft target. The project footprint is too small to justify perimeter infrastructure, but a single mobile surveillance tower covering the staging area and the active work zone fits the scale and the exposure window. The award posted May 8, 2026, via SAM.gov to a local contractor. Mobilization on a sub-$10K erosion job is immediate. likely 7-14 days from award to first equipment on-site. The signal is post-award and the window is narrow. If the contractor has not already solved for equipment security or if the refuge has standing concerns about after-hours vehicle access to the site, a conversation is still viable, but this is a last-tier timing signal. No Zedcor branch sits within coverage radius of the Patoka River refuge, which places the project outside the current operational footprint. The nearest branch coverage likely terminates 100-plus miles north or west. Unless Zedcor expands into southern Indiana or partners with a regional installer, this lead is a geographic miss. If expansion is under consideration, the refuge system's recurring contractor-security needs and multi-site footprint would justify a regional pilot.

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Source Record

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Solicitation details (sam.gov)

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Agency
INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE›US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE›FWS, SAT TEAM 2
Contracting office
Falls Church, VA, 22041
Solicitation #
140FS226P0155
Archive date
2026-05-23

Activity timeline

  • Ranked · score 15
    Saw the Patoka refuge rip-rap award post May 8. Six-thousand-dollar jobs move fast, but if equipment staging or after-hours site access is still unsolved, a mobile tower conversation takes ten minutes?
    2026-05-08 19:01 · projects
  • Verified
    verified on 2 of 4 — null-coordinate project, geographic checks skipped
    2026-05-08 19:01 · projects
  • Project ingested
    Source: sam.gov · posted 2026-05-08
    2026-05-08 18:00 · projects