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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF JANUARY 17, 2014 FBO #4437
SOLICITATION NOTICE

C -- Land-Boundary Surveys (A&E) - Package #1

Notice Date

1/15/2014
 

Notice Type

Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
 

NAICS

541310 — Architectural Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Alabama State Office, 3381 Skyway Drive, Auburn, Alabama, 36830
 

ZIP Code

36830
 

Solicitation Number

AG-4101-S-14-0001
 

Archive Date

1/16/2015
 

Point of Contact

MARGARET A GONZALES, Phone: 3348874562
 

E-Mail Address

margaret.gonzales@al.usda.gov
(margaret.gonzales@al.usda.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Total Small Business
 

Description

Boundary Surveys (A&E) Specifications Must Use This Document, SF330 Natural Resources Conservation Service Easement Programs Land Survey Specifications A. SCOPE A professional land surveyor, licensed or registered in the State of Alabama, must complete all easement boundary surveys for Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) easement programs. The work will consist of performing all surveys, measurements, computations, drawings, and descriptions required by this specification. The contracting officer (CO) may, at his or her discretion, designate a contracting officer's representative (COR), a contracting officer's technical representative (COTR), or a contract inspector to assist in preparing, awarding, administering, inspecting, and accepting the professional land surveying services contract. B. QUALITY OF WORK The easement boundary description must be clear, accurate, and complete, and meet NRCS's goals and objectives. All land survey work must follow recognized professional practices and standards and meet the accuracy specifications and positional tolerances set forth in the regulations of the State of Alabama. In addition, any land survey in a Public Land Survey System (PLSS) State requiring the survey and subdivision of PLSS sections, or parts thereof, must comply with the guidelines, directions, and procedures specified in the current Bureau of Land Management - Manual of Survey Instructions. Geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) will be provided for each property corner. Access routes and corridors must be surveyed; monumentation (monuments with metal caps) is required at the beginning and end points and at all angle points of the access routes and corridors. Monumentation will be required fifteen (15) feet from the center line on both sides of the ingress/egress. Preferred width for the access routes and corridors is thirty (30) feet. The surveyor will certify that the ingress/egress is clear and accessible by a car. Both the easement and the ingress and egress route to a public right-of-way will be shown on the plat(s). If access to the easement is from an adjacent public road, then the point of access to the easement will be shown on the plat. The work and data presented must be in accordance with the State's minimum standards for rural land surveying. Surveys of existing easements, access routes and corridors will be done to reestablish boundaries and collect state plane and latitude/longitude coordinates of the existing points through use of global positioning systems (GPS). Surveys will not be required to commence from known points, since the primary purpose is to collect coordinate data on existing points, however, the State's minimum standards for rural land surveying will apply. Reestablishment of existing boundaries may require new monuments with metal caps, witness posts and signage. All notes, sketches, computations, final documents, and other data must be complete, legible, and organized to allow reproduction of copies. The surveyor must prepare and submit to the CO a surveyor's report, documenting the make, model, and type of equipment and software as well as other pertinent data used in making the survey, and a summary of the field procedures and processes used to locate the boundaries and corners. C. NOTIFICATION OF INTENT TO SURVEY Prior to the start of survey field work, NRCS will schedule a pre-survey site visit, which will be attended by the surveyor, NRCS designated conservationist, and the landowner or the landowner's representative. During the pre-survey site visit, the proposed easement boundaries will be reviewed, as will the easement access route (if the easement is not adjacent to a public right-of-way). The NRCS State easement program manager will provide the surveyor with a preliminary title search and location map or aerial photograph of the proposed easement area. The map will include the area to be surveyed, including a minimum of two identifiable natural or man-made features, if available, which can be identified on the ground and through aerial photography, the ingress and egress routes or point of access, and any other descriptive information available. Before fieldwork for surveying begins, the surveyor must notify the designated conservationist and the landowner of the date and time for conducting the survey. Notification must be a minimum of 3 business days prior to beginning work. If the work is not started on the planned date, the surveyor must notify the designated conservationist and landowner of the revised date and time that work will begin. D. SURVEY AREA The area to be surveyed for the easement will be marked by wooden stakes or flags. Only boundary angle points should be staked or flagged. For identification purposes, angle points are to be identified by sequential number on the photograph and on the corresponding wooden stakes or flags. Any significant (more than 5 percent) variation in the acres surveyed should be reported immediately to the COR and NRCS State WRP Manager. The surveyor will not modify the easement area surveyed at the direction of the landowner. The boundary of the easement area will not be changed from what is indicated. Only the NRCS contracting office may authorize a modification to the easement area boundary. Any variations in the number of acres surveyed should be reported immediately to the contracting officer. Any questions regarding the easement area, including discrepancies between established fence lines and deeds, should be directed to the contracting officer. The surveyor must locate the easement area boundary angle points and record the description, using bearings and distances as referenced to the National Spatial Reference System. The boundary survey shall be a complete perimeter traverse of the easement area tied to two monumented corners of the PLSS or two monumented corners of a recorded deed. A latitude and longitude coordinate must be established for each angle point of the easement, using North American Datum 1983 (NAD 83) with a + 1 meter accuracy. Monuments and witness posts with signs must be installed by the surveyor at the time the survey is completed, unless otherwise specified by the CO. Monuments with metal caps and witness posts with signs must be installed at each corner, angle point, road crossing, intersection of property lines, and approximately every 300 feet along the easement area boundary. All monuments must be capped and be thoroughly described and specifically identified as set or found, whenever shown on maps or referred to in documents prepared by the surveyor. Descriptions of monuments must be sufficiently detailed to readily facilitate future recovery by other surveyors and to enable positive identification. Corner monuments must be a minimum 5/8-inch diameter, solid-steel rebar rod. The minimum length for the corner monument is 24 inches. The top of the monument must be driven to just below the ground surface. Monument caps (aluminum, or brass, approved by NRCS) must be placed on each rebar. The surveyor must provide witness posts: steel, U-shaped channel posts at least 78 inches long and with a minimum weight of 1.25 pounds per foot. Posts must be of natural color, preferably green. NRCS will provide the signs, which the surveyor must pick up at the local NRCS office. The surveyor must attach an NRCS boundary sign to the top of each witness post, using two galvanized nuts and bolts, with one bolt and nut each at the top and bottom of the sign. A wire attachment is unacceptable. The NRCS easement signs have two 3/8-inch drilled holes. The sign bolts must be bent after attachment to the signs and posts to prevent the nuts from separating from the bolts. Upon completion, the surveyor will contact the NRCS designated conservationist to certify that the work has been completed according to the NRCS statement of work. This certification will be made prior to reimbursing the survey contractor. Some easement boundaries may be a river, creek, bayou, or lake. In those cases, the easement boundary will be determined on a case-by-case basis. An onsite clarification of this boundary will be determined by the surveyor, NRCS designated conservationist, and landowner. A description point must be included for the boundary intersection points. A witness corner may need to be established on each boundary line intersecting a river, creek, bayou, or lake boundary. The witness corner position must have a permanent marker, whereas the river, creek, bayou, or lake boundary intersection point may not. The witness corner located on the boundary line allows for a physical marker on the ground to maintain the boundary's integrity. Visibility and potential stream bank changes and encroachment will be factors in locating the witness corner. Witness corners will be offset from the actual corner location in whole feet along both the incoming and outgoing boundary line segments, if possible. Witness corner locations and bearings and distances to the witness corners must be clearly documented on the survey plat of the easement area. Areas excluded from the easement area (cutouts) within the easement perimeter will be surveyed, as described above. All private and public roads (and associated roadway easement) should be excluded from the main easement boundary area, unless otherwise specified by NRCS. The net easement area will be reported by the surveyor and computed by subtracting the cutout areas from the exterior perimeter boundary area. The net easement area will be computed to the nearest tenth of an acre. The boundary description will include a delineated route of ingress and egress. The ingress and egress route to the easement area will be described in the survey, shown on the survey plat, and recorded with the easement deed. Access to the easement will be noted on the survey plat. When the boundary survey is complete, the NRCS designated conservationist and the landowner will ensure that the easement area delineated with permanent markers was the area that the landowner intended to place under easement, and that permanent markers were installed, as required. The surveyor will be required to meet with the NRCS designated conservationist and landowner to reconcile any discrepancy. If the boundary survey is to be overlaid on aerial photography or remote sensing images, when possible the boundary survey will include survey ties to and geographic coordinates for a minimum of two physically identifiable ground features that can be positively and accurately identified on aerial photography and remote sensing images. These ground feature survey ties will allow the land survey to be properly referenced and oriented to aerial photography and remote sensing images. E. PRESENTATION OF SURVEY The surveyor will prepare an appropriately scaled drawing of the survey. The surveyor will provide to the COR an original and three copies, and three 11- by 17-inch and one 8.5-by 11 inch copies of the survey plat (and attachments that include the legal description and access description). The surveyor is not to provide a copy of the plat to third parties without the contracting officer's approval. The survey plat must, at minimum, include the following items: 1. The surveyor's seal affixed to the survey plat, signed and dated by the surveyor in blue ink across the seal 2. Latitude and longitude for the point of beginning 3. The record description of the property or the reference to the source of the recorded description on the property on which the easement is located 4. The survey description of the easement area as attachment A to the survey 5. The survey description of the route of ingress and egress to the subject property as attachment B to the survey and shown on the survey plat 6. North arrow 7. Graphic bar scale 8. The direction of courses, shown in bearings, or azimuths (NAZ or SAZ) to whole seconds of arc, and the distances to hundredths of feet for all courses 9. The central angles, length of curves, radii, and the length and bearing of the long chords from the point of curvatures to the point of tangencies for each curve along the boundary line Note: In addition, curves should be noted on the survey plat as either simple curves, compound curves, or spiral curves (also note if they are railroad curves or highway curves) 10. Basis of bearings or azimuth 11. Monuments identified as set or found, along with a description of the monument and point of access to the easement 12. Area of the surveyed easement 13. Observed evidence of possession or occupation and use by others on the subject parcel or across any boundary lines of the subject property 14. Sufficient data, diagrams, maps, and survey ties to corners to indicate that the location of the boundaries and corners of the property were correctly surveyed and located, including diagrams to show that the PLSS section or sections were properly surveyed and subdivided to locate PLSS aliquot parts and PLSS lots 15. Name, registration number, address, and phone number of the professional land surveyor in responsible charge of the survey 16. Client name 17. Date survey was completed 18. NRCS assigned easement agreement number (in the legend of the survey plat) 19. NRCS property application number and NRCS contract number 20. Certification, with the following statement included on each survey plat: "This is to certify that the survey was done by the undersigned, in accordance with the most recent minimum standards for boundary property surveys as set forth by the Alabama State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. The accuracy and position tolerance also are in accordance with rural surveys." The following must be included in the legal description (as attachment A to the survey plat) of the property: 1. A clear statement of the relationship between the described property and the survey control or the basis of the unique location 2. The basis of bearings and azimuths, when bearings or azimuths are used 3. Metes and bounds descriptions that include bearings or azimuths and distances to allow for computing mathematical closure and acreage 4. Citations to the recording information or other identifying documentation for any maps, plats, or other documents referenced 5. Detailed description of any natural or artificial monuments referenced F. DELIVERABLES The survey contractor will deliver the following to the CO within 45 days of issuance of the task order: 1. Original completed survey plat (34 inches by 24 inches) with required seal and signature and three copies of the signed survey 2. Three 11- by 17-inch copies and one 8.5- by 11-inch copy of the survey plat 3. A printed legal land description of the easement area depicted on the surveyor's survey plat, and an electronic copy of the legal description in a format acceptable to the COR 4. A computer-generated tabulation of bearings, distances, and coordinates around the easement area, with a closure statement indicating the cited bearings and distances meeting acceptable state standards for survey closure accuracies and the area of the easement Note: The survey plat, legal description, and tabulation demonstrating acceptable survey closure must all consistently traverse the perimeter of the easement area in the same direction and with the same starting and ending points. 5. In PLSS States, legible copies of the most recent and current GLO/BLM original survey plat and original field notes, or the GLO/BLM resurvey plat and field notes for the surveyed sections in which the easement area is located Note: Copies of the survey plats and notes need only include the full sections in which the easement area is located; in the metes and bounds states, copies of the original source documents creating the subject parcel in which the easement area is located are acceptable. 6. One electronic (digital) copy of the easement survey Note: The survey contractor must provide a CD or DVD containing the digital files in.dwg format compatible with AutoCad 2000. The.dwg file will be referenced to the appropriate State Plane Coordinate System, North American Datum 1983, local zone, U.S. survey feet, and basis of bearing to grid north. The perimeter of the easement should be attributed as a separate and extractable polyline layer or polygon feature component of the drawing for conversion to a geographic information system (GIS). The electronic copy of the easement survey must include the following: a. Documentation regarding registration of the survey to a standard coordinate system based on measurements referenced to the National Spatial Reference System infrastructure with a minimum of two tie points to the U.S. Public Land Survey System within the parcel's section b. Documentation identifying which coordinate system is used (for example, MO Coordinate System of 1983, West Zone, NAD 83 horizontal datum, survey units - U.S. Survey Foot). All polygons should be labeled as indicated below: 1. Each polygon should contain four attributes: a. An NRCS-assigned easement agreement number b. Easement acres (value to the tenth of an acre) c. The length of the contract in years (Thirty Years/In Perpetuity). d. The method of data capture 2. Each polygon should have the following metadata: a. Date generated b. GIS specialist contact information c. Software and version used to generate file d. Brief description of process used to generate files 3. Format, providing ESRI ARC information export (.e00) or shapefile (.shp,.dbf,.shx) a. Projection must be clearly defined. b. If not a geographic projection, the following is required: • Projection (NAD 83) • Units • Datum • Spheroid • X shift • Y shift • Central meridian • 1st standard parallel • 2nd standard parallel • Latitude of projection • False easting • False northing • Geospatial and data joining, identifying the data fields required to join the spatial data to the database. G. CONFLICT OF INTEREST A surveyor must not survey a NRCS easement property for a spouse, children, partners, or business associates, and must not have a financial interest in the property to be covered by the proposed easement. H. NONDISCLOSURE Work performance required by this specification will involve access to potentially sensitive information about governmental and landowner issues. All survey contractor personnel must comply with the terms of AGAR 452.224-70, "Confidentiality of Information," as well as provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C Section 552a. Additionally, the survey contractor's employees must comply with the rules governing the privacy of personal information relating to Natural Resources Conservation Service programs, in accordance with section 1244 of title II of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Public Law 1078-171). I. CIVIL RIGHTS AND PROGRAM DELIVERY The survey contractor will ensure that personnel prohibit discrimination in all aspects of programs and activities related to the contract on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, or marital or family status. J. CLAUSES The following clauses are applicable to this order: 52.252-2 CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE (FEB 1998)This contract incorporates one or more clauses by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request, the Contracting Officer will make their full text available. Also, the full text of a clause may be accessed electronically at this/these address(es): http://www.acquisition.gov/far/index.html 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items (JUL 2013) 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items (JUL 2013) (a) The Contractor shall comply with the following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clauses, which are incorporated in this contract by reference, to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items: (1) 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons (Feb 2009) (22 U.S.C. 7104(g)). (2) 52.233-3, Protest After Award (AUG 1996) (31 U.S.C. 3553). (3) 52.233-4, Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim (OCT 2004) (Pub. L. 108-77, 108-78). (b) The Contractor shall comply with the FAR clauses in this paragraph (b) that the Contracting Officer has indicated as being incorporated in this contract by reference to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items: (26) 52.222-3, Convict Labor (June 2003) (E.O. 11755). (28) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (Feb 1999). (29) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (Mar 2007) (E.O. 11246). (42) 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases (June 2008) (E.O.'s, proclamations, and statutes administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury). (48) 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-System for Award Management (Jul 2013) (31 U.S.C. 3332). (c) The Contractor shall comply with the FAR clauses in this paragraph (c), applicable to commercial services, that the Contracting Officer has indicated as being incorporated in this contract by reference to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items: (1) 52.222-41, Service Contract Act of 1965 (Nov 2007) (41 U.S.C. 351, et seq.). (2) 52.222-42, Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires (May 1989) (29 U.S.C. 206 and 41 U.S.C. 351, et seq.). (d) Comptroller General Examination of Record. The Contractor shall comply with the provisions of this paragraph (d) if this contract was awarded using other than sealed bid, is in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold, and does not contain the clause at 52.215-2, Audit and Records-Negotiation. (1) The Comptroller General of the United States, or an authorized representative of the Comptroller General, shall have access to and right to examine any of the Contractor's directly pertinent records involving transactions related to this contract. (2) The Contractor shall make available at its offices at all reasonable times the records, materials, and other evidence for examination, audit, or reproduction, until 3 years after final payment under this contract or for any shorter period specified in FAR Subpart 4.7, Contractor Records Retention, of the other clauses of this contract. If this contract is completely or partially terminated, the records relating to the work terminated shall be made available for 3 years after any resulting final termination settlement. Records relating to appeals under the disputes clause or to litigation or the settlement of claims arising under or relating to this contract shall be made available until such appeals, litigation, or claims are finally resolved. (3) As used in this clause, records include books, documents, accounting procedures and practices, and other data, regardless of type and regardless of form. This does not require the Contractor to create or maintain any record that the Contractor does not maintain in the ordinary course of business or pursuant to a provision of law. (e)(1) Notwithstanding the requirements of the clauses in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this clause, the Contractor is not required to flow down any FAR clause, other than those in this paragraph (e)(1) in a subcontract for commercial items. Unless otherwise indicated below, the extent of the flow down shall be as required by the clause- (i) 52.203-13, Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct (Apr 2010) (Pub. L. 110-252, Title VI, Chapter 1 (41 U.S.C. 251 note)). (ii) 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns (Jul 2013) (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(2) and (3)), in all subcontracts that offer further subcontracting opportunities. If the subcontract (except subcontracts to small business concerns) exceeds $650,000 ($1.5 million for construction of any public facility), the subcontractor must include 52.219-8 in lower tier subcontracts that offer subcontracting opportunities. (iii) 52.222-17, Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers (JAN 2013) (E.O. 13495). Flow down required in accordance with paragraph (l) of FAR clause 52.222-17. (iv) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (Mar 2007) (E.O. 11246). (v) 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veterans (Sep 2010) (38 U.S.C. 4212). (vi) 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities (Oct 2010) (29 U.S.C. 793). (vii) 52.222-40, Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act (Dec 2010) (E.O. 13496). Flow down required in accordance with paragraph (f) of FAR clause 52.222-40. (viii) 52.222-41, Service Contract Act of 1965 (Nov 2007) (41 U.S.C. 351, et seq.). (ix) 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons (Feb 2009) (22 U.S.C. 7104(g)). (x) 52.222-51, Exemption from Application of the Service Contract Act to Contracts for Maintenance, Calibration, or Repair of Certain Equipment-Requirements (Nov 2007) (41 U.S.C. 351, et seq.). (xi) 52.222-53, Exemption from Application of the Service Contract Act to Contracts for Certain Services-Requirements (Feb 2009) (41 U.S.C. 351, et seq.). (xii) 52.222-54, Employment Eligibility Verification (JUL 2012). (xiii) 52.225-26, Contractors Performing Private Security Functions Outside the United States (Jul 2013) (Section 862, as amended, of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008; 10 U.S.C. 2302 Note). (xiv) 52.226-6, Promoting Excess Food Donation to Nonprofit Organizations (Mar 2009) (Pub. L. 110-247). Flow down required in accordance with paragraph (e) of FAR clause 52.226-6. (xv) 52.247-64, Preference for Privately Owned U.S.-Flag Commercial Vessels (Feb 2006) (46 U.S.C. Appx. 1241(b) and 10 U.S.C. 2631). Flow down required in accordance with paragraph (d) of FAR clause 52.247-64. (2) While not required, the contractor may include in its subcontracts for commercial items a minimal number of additional clauses necessary to satisfy its contractual obligations. 52.236-24 Work Oversight in Architect-Engineer Contracts (APR 1984) 52.236-25 Requirements for Registration of Designers (JUN 2003).
 

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Place of Performance

Address: 3381 Skiyway Drive, Auburn, Alabama, 36801, United States

Zip Code: 36801
 

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