White Mountain National Forest, 719 Main St., Laconia, NH 03246

R -- ARCHITECT-ENGINEER SERVICES SOL R9-22-97-2 DUE 010897 POC Alan Moore, Contracting Officer, 603-528-8759. This acquisition is for cadastral survey services located on the White Mountain National Forest (New Hampshire and Maine), the Finger Lakes National Forest (New York), and the Green Mountain National Forest (Vermont). Only firms offering a licensed professional surveyor in the appropriate state will be considered. The services will include surveying and marking the legal property boundary of the National Forest System lands and lands or rights being acquired by the United States. Work includes corner search, monumentation and perpetuation of all property and controlling corners associated with the surveys. Work may also include the record research necessary for acquisition of lands or rights by the United States. The Forest Service will award three contracts (one per Forest) that will be indefinite quantity contracts. There will be a $3,000 guaranteed minimum per contract; maximum order amounts will be $50,000. Each contract will contain option provisions which may extend contract terms to a four-year period. Several projects may be accomplished under each contract. Specific projects are undefined at this time. A licensed surveyor must be assigned to each project. Firms qualified and interested in providing these services are invited to submit a Standard Form 254 (Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire) and Standard Form 255 (Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project). Submit one copy of the SF-254 and four copies of the SF-255. Provide separate SF-255's for each Forest for which you are interested. Submit this information to the Contracting Officer at the address shown above. On the bottom left corner of the envelope, identify your submittal as ''Landline Proposal, RFP R9-22-97-2''. The following criteria will be used to evaluate the submittals: (1) professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services; (2) specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required; (3) capacity to accomplish the work in the required time; (4) past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules; (5) location in the general geographical area of the project and knowledge of the locality of the project; (6) experience and qualifications of proposed key personnel including specialized technical skills, project coordination and management skill, and experience in working together as a team; (7) volume and nature of present workload as it relates to the ability to perform the work required; (8) availability of additional contractor personnel or consultants to support expansion or acceleration of a project; (9) computer-assisted design capability and capacity; (10) the volume of work previously awarded by the Forest Service (evaluated with the objective of effecting an equitable distribution of contracts among qualified firms); and (11) socioeconomic factors (additional credit may be given to potential contractors that are, or will subcontract with, certified 8(a) or other small disadvantaged or women-owned businesses). To assist the evaluation board in the analysis of your response to these criteria, please provide the following information with your SF-255. (1) Please list the name(s), state(s) of registration, license number, date licensed and number of years of landline surveying experience of individuals who might be assigned responsible charge of a Forest Service project. Include the responsible Land Surveyor and Party Chief. (2) Give the amount of time expressed in percent that the responsible Land Surveyor will be on the project. (3) Discuss your experience in the past five years specifically related to cadastral surveys similar to those that might be encountered on a Forest Service project. (4) Discuss the approach you have used on previous surveys to resolve problems resulting from conflicting evidence. (5) Describe in detail the procedures you will use to perform the survey. (6) Submit a copy of a recent survey plat that is representative of your cadastral survey work. (7) For the state(s) in which you are interested, please list the towns in which you have completed five or more survey projects. Please submit four copies of this information with the SF-255's. This acquisition is reserved exclusively for emerging small business concerns (those with an average annual income, over the last three years, that does not exceed $1,250,000. If there are not at least three emerging small businesses that respond, the acquisition shall be unrestricted (open to full and open competition). No further CBD announcement will be made, so all interested firms are invited to respond. (0325)

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