U.S. Forest Service, Redding Contracting Unit, 2400 Washington Avenue, Redding, CA 96001

R -- PSW MULTI-YEAR SURVEY SERVICES SOL RFP R5-14-95-27. DUE 072695. Contact Nancy Ruffner, 916 246-5220/Contracting Officer, Fred Weatherill 916 246-5289. The project shall result in an indefinite delivery firm fixed price contract with a base year plus four option years. Contract award is anticipated for August 1995. Typical types of services to be provided may include geodetic surveying, ground control for aerial mapping, GPS surveys, vertical control, area location and delineation, establishing or re-establishing spatial reference points, planimetric mapping and office computations. The purpose of the survey services is either to locate and/or establish or re-establish spatial reference systems for Forest research programs. The reference points will be used to assist in the study of different forest management practices and do not relate to property lines. Survey services will be performed on National Forest land in northern California for the USDA, Forest Service Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. The firm selected will be required to have sufficient staff, flexibility and capability to be available on an as-needed basis. Firms having a current (1995) SF-254 on file with the Shasta - Trinity National Forest need not file again but must submit a completed SF-255 by July 17, 1995 to the U.S. Forest Service, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Attn: Contracting, 2400 Washington Avenue, Redding, CA 96001. All other firms should also complete the SF-254. In evaluating firms, the following criteria will be applied, listed in descending order of importance: (1) Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services; (2) Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required; (3) Location in the general geographical area of the project and knowledge of the locality of the project; (4) Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time; (5) Availability of additional contractor personnel or consultants to support expansion or acceleration of the project; (6) Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work and compliance with performance schedules; (7) The volume of work previously awarded by the Forest Service will be evaluated with the objective of effecting an equitable distribution of the contracts among qualified A&E firms, including minority, 8(a), or small disadvantaged firms that have not had prior Forest Service contracts; and (8) Additional points may be assigned or credit given to potential contractors that are or will subcontract with certified 8(a) or other small disadvantaged businesses. This procedure will be allowed until units have met their small business goals. See numbered Note 3. (173)

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