National Park Service, Alaska System Support Office, 2525 Gambell St., Anchorage, AK 99503-2892

C -- LAND COVER MAPPING FOR NPS, ALASKA FIELD AREA POC Bob Weiser, Tel. 907-257-2602, Fax 907-257-2492 Land Cover Mapping for NPS, Alaska Field Area. The National Park Service (NPS) desires to make an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract award for Architect and Engineering Services involving land cover mapping and related projects for the National Park Service lands in Alaska. The term of this contract shall be for a base period of one year with four (4) additional one-year options. Multiple contracts will be considered. Task orders will be issued defining the Scope of Services for each project as funding becomes available. The total of all orders for each year shall not exceed $400,000, and each task order shall not exceed $400,000. A $25,000 minimum will be included during the base period. The work involves developing digital land cover maps and related data sets for the 54 million acres of NPS lands in Alaska. Final products must be compatible with the NPS Alaska Support Office (AKSO) Geographic Information System (GIS), conform to Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) standards, and meet professional standards of the scientific community. The primary uses will for long-term inventory and monitoring, research, natural and cultural resource management, planning, interpretation and operations. We anticipate mapping at intermediate scales from 1:63,360 -- 1:100,000. The anticipated work may include, but is not limited to the following: * Searching imagery and photography archives, scheduling satellite imagery acquisitions, analyzing data quality, and making recommendations. * Interpretation and analysis of vegetation and environmental data for developing vegetation classification systems and understanding plant communities with respect to land cover mapping. * Planning and conducting field work including sampling designs and logistical coordination for the purpose of reconnaissance, gathering training site data and information for stratification models, and accuracy evaluation. * Interpretation of aerial photographs and analog images to support all phases of work (reconnaissance, training data, stratification models, accuracy evaluations). This work may include complete mapping of project areas using photographic interpretation. * Digital processing of multi-spectral satellite imagery to develop land cover maps. * Data automation; including digitizing, co-registering, scanning, tabular data entry. * Identification, development and application of appropriate stratification masks and models for refinement of classification. * Accuracy evaluation * Derivation of interim and final digital and analog products * Documentation of entire project, including meta data * Application development highlighting or enhancing the utility of the land cover maps and other products. * Technology transfer to NPS personnel Data sources will include aerial photographs at various scales (typically 1:24,000 -- 1:60,000), digital multi-spectral satellite imagery (SPOT, TM, MSS, IRS, AVHRR), analog satellite image data, ancillary data sources such as (digital and analog), and field work conducted by NPS, contractor or other entities. Digital products will be in the formats used by the NPS AKSO GIS, currently these are Arc/INFO and Imagine. Firms will be evaluated on four factors, listed below in descending order of importance. Criteria within the first factor have an importance level of highest, moderate, or lowest. Firms are required to respond specifically to each criteria, providing examples as appropriate. In addition, firms must provide a description of the methods they would employ in conducting a land cover mapping project in a large, remote Alaskan national park. 1. Professional qualifications and experience of the staff in the following respects: a) Interpretation and analysis of a variety of Alaskan vegetation types for mapping (High). b) Digital multi-spectral image processing to generate land cover maps (High). c) Application of ancillary data sets in developing land cover maps (High). d) Aerial photo interpretation to generate land cover maps (High). e) Coordinating and conducting field work in large, remoteareas in the far North (High). f) Developing mapping classification systems for use in Alaska (Moderate). g) Programming expertise in support of data automation, tabular data entry and analysis, image processing, and application development (Moderate). h) Application development in Avenue and AML (Moderate). i) Data production capability in support of land cover mapping (Low). 2. Track record successfully managing similar projects. 3. Demonstrated ability to respond to NPS needs and input with flexibility and creativity. 4. Has the necessary production facilities and staff resources, or the ability to obtain them. This procurement is open to small and large businesses. Firms interested in being considered for this acquisition must submit five copies of Standard Forms 254 and 255 for themselves and their major subcontractors (team members) to the procuring office listed above. Firms are advised that this office does not maintain a current file of SF-254's and they must therefore submit both forms. No other submittal is desired and will not be considered in the evaluation. Responses must be received before 5:00 p.m. (AST), March 7, 1997, in order to be considered for selection. This is not a request for proposal (RFP). (0037)

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