U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region, Attention: MP-3810, 2800 Cottage Way, Room E-2711, Sacramento, CA 95825-1898

B -- CARSON LAKE ARCHEOLOGICAL SAMPLE INVENTORY SOL 1425-98-SP-20-20037 POC For copy of Solicitation, call Kathy Kurtz (916)978-5137 The Bureau of Reclamation, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is proposing to transfer title of portions of Carson Lake and the Carson Community Pasture (Carson Lake) to the Nevada Department of Wildlife. Authority for the transfer stems from the Truckee-Carson-Pyramid Lake Water Rights Settlement Act. Actual boundaries have not been finalized, but the study area approximates 29,000 acres. This contract calls for a multi-phase sample inventory totaling 7,410 acres as one step in complying with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. There are three goals for this contract. The first goal is to identify and evaluate a sample of cultural resources within the Carson Lake study area. The contractor will design the inventory format and will be responsible for evaluating properties for possible inclusion into the National Register of Historic Places The second goal is to test a portion of the Toedokado Model (Zenah et al. 1995). Responses to the RFP will describe how thiswill be accomplished. The use of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology is a requirement of this contract to further model or predict the occurrence of archeological resources on unsurveyed portions of the study area. The contractor's response to the RFP constitutes the inventory plan or research design for inventory of the Carson Lake study area. The final goal of this contract is to accomplish the inventory and report preparation in an expeditious manner in order to meet exchange requirements. Contractors will be required to have regional cultural resource experience in the Carson drainage in west central Nevada. Contractors must also possess or have access to GIS technology. The system must be must be compatible in ArcInfo format and accessible in ArcView 3.0a. The RFP requires documentation of GIS availability and qualifications of any GIS personnel as well as principals responsible for the over all cultural resource product. Contractors will be required to submit a technical proposal in addition to a price proposal for the work. The solicitation has been setaside for small businesses. The SIC Code utilized for this acquisition is 8732. Under this SIC code, a business is considered small if their average annual receipts are not more than $5 Million for the preceeding 3 years. The solicitation is scheduled to be released around May 15, 1998. (0119)

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