SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Transportation Planning Services
- Notice Date
- 12/15/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, R-5 Southern Sierra Province, 1600 Tollhouse Road, Clovis, CA, 93611, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-S-06-SS-15-07-189
- Response Due
- 1/16/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Description (i) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation: quotations are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. (ii) RFQ-S-06-SS-15-07-189 is issued as a request for quotations (RFQ). (iii) This combined synopsis/solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-13. It is the contractor?s responsibility to be familiar with applicable clauses and provisions. Clauses and provisions can be found at http://acquisition.gov/far/index.html. (iv) This procurement is being issued as 100% Small Business Set-Aside. North American Industrial Classification Standard: 541990, Small Business Size Standard: $6,500,000. (v) CLN 1: Transportation Planning Services, Est. Qty. 250 Hours (vi) STATEMENT OF WORK FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING SERVICES. SCOPE. Under this contract, the contractor will independently provide support services to satisfy the overall operational objectives of transportation planning for the Stanislaus National Forest Route Designation project and other transportation planning projects as requested. The route designation project is a major inter-disciplinary planning process and tasks will be assigned with due dates determined to be needed for the progress of the overall project. Tasks on other transportation planning projects requiring similar skills and products may be assigned if needed. The primary objective is to provide contractor services and deliverables through performance of field reconnaissance, research of existing transportation planning information and preparation of maps, databases, tables and reports. LOCATION. Stanislaus National Forest, Supervisor?s Office, 19777 Greenley Road, Sonora, CA 95370. Travel to Sequoia National Forest field sites will be required. TASKS/SERVICES. The contractor shall perform transportation planning tasks assigned by the Forest Service in support of the route designation project and similar projects. The assignments will include the following tasks: a) Determine which roads are physically open to public motor vehicle traffic by researching records and physically inspecting road closure devices and natural barriers to vehicle traffic. b) Determine on which roads there is existing public right-of-way by researching records and physically verifying road locations. c) Resolve discrepancies in the Stanislaus National Forest transportation atlas spatial and tabular data, by researching records and physically verifying road locations and conditions. d) Locate and map dispersed recreation sites. e) Plan transportation system improvements needed for fuel reduction projects. f) Locate traffic count sites and perform traffic counts. DELIVERABLES. The contract deliverables will include the following items as applicable to the tasks assigned: a) Plan of work proposing the most cost effective method of completing assigned tasks. b) Written reports addressing assigned transportation planning tasks. c) Tabular data entered into approved Stanislaus National Forest databases. d) GPS data. e) Written reconnaissance notes. f) Maps. CERTIFICATIONS AND/OR LICENSES REQUIRED. The contractor must have a valid California driver?s license. SAFETY ISSUES. The work described herein includes sedentary duties, driving on forest roads, and walking on forest roads or in densely vegetated forest areas. The work environment involves risks associated with travel on dirt roads which may be in poor condition and may have heavy truck traffic and risks associated with walking in rough country where poison oak, rattlesnakes and stinging insects may be present. Some of the required walking may be strenuous. (vii) FOB: Destination. The period of performance will be February 1, 2007 through September 28, 2007. (viii) The provision at FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. (ix) The provision at FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: Price and Past Performance. (x) Offerors must include a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications ? Commercial Items, with its offer. (xi) The clause at FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions ? Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. (xii) The clause at FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders ? Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The following FAR clauses identified at paragraph b of FAR 52.212-5 are considered checked and are applicable to this acquisition: (5), (16-20), and (31). (xiii) The following additional provisions and clauses apply to this acquisition: FAR 52.204-7, Central Contractor Registration. Award will only be made to contractors registered in the Central Contract Registration database. Registration is completed on-line at http://www.ccr.gov. (xiv) N/A. (xv) Government-wide Numbered Note 1 applies to this acquisition. (xvi) Quotations are due no later than 1:00 pm on January 16, 2007. Quotations may be mailed to the Issuing Office, Attn: Mary Cantrell; or e-mailed to mecantrell@fs.fed.us; or faxed to (559) 294-4833.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Stanislaus National Forest Supervisor's Office, 19777 Greenley Road, Sonora, CA
- Zip Code: 95370
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 95370
- Record
- SN01197317-W 20061217/061215220240 (fbodaily.com)
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