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F -- LAND RESTORATION, REVEGETATION RESEARCH, AND EROSION CONTROL SOL N68711-99-R-6602 DUE 031799 POC Waimie Vann, Contract Specialist (619) 532-2077 E-MAIL: ERROR --, vannwm@efdsw.navfac.navy.mil. The Government intends to award a Sole Source contract to Soils Ecology Restoration Group at University of California, Riverside (UCR) to research and develop innovative methods to implement land restoration and erosion control for National Training Center (NTC), Ft. Irwin California. The goal is to protect and preserve endangered species, such as threatened desert tortoise, and to control air pollution from fugitive dust caused by on going military training. The scope of the project requires the contractor personal must have extensive knowledge and expertise in plant and soils ecology and the use of specialized equipment, in depth knowledge of desert restoration and analysis, experimental design, and statistical analysis. UCR has demonstrated success on all of the above areas including development of innovative irrigation systems and they are only experts to use fungal bacterial analysis to monitor the changes in below ground ecology. Therefore award this contract to any other source would result in substantial cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition and unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency requirement. No other proposals will be accepted. The contract duration is five years. Posted 02/17/99 (W-SN299471). (0048)

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