USDA Forest Service, 2222 West 2300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84119

C -- PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SERVICES SOL RFP 51-98-009 DUE 010898 POC Contracting Officer Carolyn J. Lippire 801/975-3443 WEB: nmontgom/wo_gsc@fs.fed.us, nmontgom/wo_gsc@fs.fed.us. This project will consist of a base year and four option years. The contract total value is estimated at $500,000. The awarded contract is estimated to start February 1, 1998, on a call-when-needed basis. The place of performance will be at the Contractor's facility. Contractors are to submit their Standard Forms 254's and 255's covering the selection criteria to my office by January 8, 1998, local time 4 P.M. Selection criteria will be evaluated on (1) Professional qualifications for satisfactory performance of required services. (2) Specialized experience and technical competence in work required. Experience and qualifications of proposed key personnel including specialized technical skills, project coordination and management skills, and experience in working together as a team. (3) Capacity to accomplish work. Adequacy of facilities for performance of the work including those necessary to provide specialized services. Volume and nature of present workload as it relates to the ability to perform thework required. Availability of additional Contractor personnel or consultants to support expansion or acceleration of the project. (4) Past performance with Government and private industry in terms of cost, quality of work, and compliance with past performance schedules. (5) Geographical location. (6) Equipment and software that meets industry standards. STATEMENT OF WORK: The United States Forest Service (USFS), Geometronics Service Center (GSC), herein referred to as the "Government" requires professional mapping services to provide the timely production of Digital Orthophoto Quads (DOQ)and associated data to support the programs of the USFS and other cooperating Federal, State, and local agencies. There is a growing national interest if DOQ imagery in a 3.75-minute format that meets either the National Map Accuracy Standards (NMAS) or it's recently drafted replacement, the National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy (NSSDA) "Jan. 1997", at a 1:12,000-scale. There are insuffucient production resources within the Government to meet their growing needs. Therefore, the Government proposes to use private sector DOQ resources to accelerate the production of these data. The USFS recognizes that technological advances will evolve throughout the contract period. The Contractor is expected to utilize the most advanced cost-effective processes for this contract. SCOPE OF WORK: Work under this contract includes: A. Develop photo bridging control pass points; B. Scanning aerial film diapositives; C. DOQ differential rectification; D. Creation of DOQ data files. The Contractor may also be required to produce, at the option of the Government, one or more of the following: E. Aerial photography acquisition; F. Softcopy photographic imagery; G. Airborne GPS (ABGPS) derived aerial camera exposure stations; H. Geodetic control points; I. Digital Elevation Models (DEM); J. Tagged Vector Contour files (TVC); K. DOQ mosaic files; L. Hardcopy DOQ (full 7.5' quad). The Contractor shall perform all tasks in accordance with the specifications and shall deliver all products. Overall project supervision and oversight shall be performed by a certified or licensed professional photogrammetrist, geodetic surveyor, or engineer with demonstrated skills in all phases of this work.***** (0336)

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