US ARMY, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, SEATTLE DISTRICT, PO BOX 3755, SEATTLE WA 98124-3755

B -- MISCELLANEOUS CULTURAL RESOURCE SERVICES SOL DACA67-96-R-0038 DUE 082296 POC Contract Specialist Dennis H Belcher (206) 764-6804 (Site Code DACA67) Proposed contract work consists of miscellaneous, primarily civil cultural resources studies in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, or (for military work) generally throughout western United States including, but not limited to, site-specific cultural resource overviews, field examinations, reconnaissance, testing, survey and salvage, curation accessioning, emergency burial relocation, and planning and impact assessment. Contractor must have specialized technical skills and knowledge of Pacific Northwest history, ethnography and prehistory, specifically for western Montana, northern Idaho, eastern and western Washington, and Oregon. These capabilities must include HABS/HAER survey, ethnography, oral history, native American linguistic transcription, cross-cultural interviewing, archaeological collections accessioning and curation requirements and native American traditional cultural properties, faunal and botanic identification; lithic analysis; soils analysis; geochronology (especially tephrochronology); geomorphology and stratigraphic analysis; archaeological applications of remote sensing; and knowledge of local/regional site, feature and artifact types. For military purposes, geographic knowledge must extend to western United States in general. Contractor must be able to assemble professionally qualified field crew to accomplish all technical aspects of various projects simultaneously in an organized, timely manner any time of year. Contractor must possess professionally qualified admin and supervisory staff with demonstrated ability to organize and execute state-of-the-art data recovery, field and lab analyses, data organization and retrieval. Proposals will be evaluated on a competitive, negotiated basis. Award of firm fixed-price requirements contract to one, and possibly two firms is anticipated at the Government's option. Contract(s) will be for base year and one option year. Contractors shall provide services which will be detailed on each specific delivery order. This announcement is not an RFP. Solicitation will be issued o/a 23 July 96 with proposals due o/a 22 August 96. Firms desiring consideration must request a copy of RFP DACA67-96-R-0038 in writing within 15 days after date of this publication and must respond by RFP's closing date with info required therein. Requests may be FAXed to (206) 764-6817 or eMail to plans.room.cenps-ct@nps.usace.army.mil. Be sure to include your Company name, full mailing address, voice and FAX numbers and state whether you are a Prime, Sub or Plans Room. Confirmation copy need not be mailed. This procurement is open to both large and small concerns. Notice to large business: If you are a large business and your proposal will equal or exceed $500,000, you will be required to submit a small and small disadvantaged business subcontracting plan. Standard Industrial Classification Code is 8731.(0180)

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