Town of Wake Forest National Register Historic District Additional Information & Boundary Increase

The Town of Wake Forest (as referred to as “the Town” or “Wake Forest”) is soliciting Proposals from firm(s) or organization(s) qualified to provide professional services to conduct required research and writing to complete the research, documentation, and writing to complete the Additional Documentation and Boundary Increase of the Wake Forest National Register Historic District Nomination (WA1665).

The Town seeks to identify qualified consultants who meet the Secretary of Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards for Architectural History and possess required experience and knowledge to complete in full, the survey, additional documentation, extension of the period of significance, and boundary expansion of the Wake Forest National Register Historic District.

The Town of Wake Forest has received a $25,000 federal pass-through Historic Preservation Fund grant for Certified Local Governments from the National Park Service, US Department of the Interior administered through the State Historic Preservation Office and is providing a local match of $15,000 for a total project budget of $40,000.

The selected firm will be required to complete all work necessary to successfully amend the Wake Forest National Register Historic District including additional information, Period of Significance, and Boundary Increase. All work must meet the documentation standards of the NC Historic Preservation Office and National Park Service. The final nomination will incorporate all comments from the Town of Wake Forest and State Historic Preservation Office. [...] RFP responses that do not address all tasks will not be considered. The tasks and deliverables include:

• Review all existing information about the Wake Forest National Register Historic District and proposed boundary expansion areas.
• Update the architectural survey of the district and district’s expansion areas with photography, updated and new entries into a shell survey database provided by the State Historic Preservation Office (HPO), and assignment of survey site numbers (provided by the HPO) to each resource as needed.
• Refine and justify the proposed boundary expansion
• Complete Additional Documentation to update and expand the district and expansion area’s physical description, inventory list (building name, date of construction, resource type and classification, and description), history and contexts; make strong arguments supporting the district’s significance and architectural integrity; support and justify a period of significance, which may be extended to the current fifty-year cutoff or beyond if there is justification for a Criterion Consideration G argument; and justify the expansion of the district boundary.
• Create location and boundary maps to support the nomination.
• Draft the National Register Nomination Additional Documentation to include completing all fields as required.
• Make all recommended changes, suggestions, and edits provided by the NC Historic Preservation Office, National Park Service, and Town of Wake Forest to create a complete and final National Register Nomination meeting the NC Historic Preservation Office and National Park Service requirements.

**Submission:** Submittals may be emailed (preferred) to mmichael@wakeforestnc.gov or flash drive delivered to Town of Wake Forest Town Hall, 301 South Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587-2901. The deadline for firms submitting a proposal is **5:00 pm, Friday, December 11, 2026**. No submissions or supporting documents will be accepted after this deadline.

The submission shall be a maximum of 10 pages front and back or 20 pages single-sided. Only digital Work Samples, which are excluded from the page limit, will be accepted.

Evaluation Criteria

• Qualifications of the Firm (20%)
• Overall Qualifications of the Project Manager and Team (20%)
• Project Approach and Project Understanding (20%)
• National Register of Historic Places Historic District Nomination Experience (20%)
• Experience with Certified Local Government Grants and completing grant projects on time and within budget (20%)

The selected firm further agrees to purchase and maintain during the life of any contracts entered into with the Town the following insurance: Automobile of not less than $1,000,000 combined single limit; Comprehensive General Liability of not less than $1,000,000 each occurrence and $2,000,000 general aggregate; Firm’s Professional Liability of not less than $1,000,000; and Workers’ Compensation Insurance.

All project requirements must be submitted no later than February 28, 2028.