DIRECTORATE OF CONTRACTING, DRAWER 70120, FORT BRAGG NC 28307-0120

B -- BIOLOGICAL MONITORING PROGRAM SOL DAKF40-95-R-0012 DUE 031595 POC Contract Specialist, REBECCA McGLOTHLIN EXT 224, (910)396-4362 This is a notice of intent to negotiate a contract on a sole source basis with The Nature Conservancy, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for a Biological Monitoring Program for Federally protected, candidate, and rare species on Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall, North Carolina, military reservations. Program shall include 6.75 days (5 sessions) training in biological monitoring, specific to the Sandhills ecology, during May, 1995. Contractor will develop monitoring protocols for longleaf pine communities and seven (7) selected plant species. Protocols will be developed with core resource managers during flowering and fruiting period. The protocols will include two (2) days of sampling for each plant species and longleaf community, development of sampling design, analysis of pilot sampling data, writing of the protocol for each species, and summarization of first year data, for a total of 18 days. Interested parties may identify interest and capability by submitting technical and pricing data within 15 days of publication of this notice. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all responses received within 15 days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.(0061)

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