USDA Forest Service, Black Hills National Forest, RR 2 Box 200, Custer, SD 57730

R -- CADASTRAL SURVEYS SOL RFP RMAST-99-065 DUE 050399 POC Brenda Oster, 605/673-2251, Wayne C. Kelwey, Contracting Officer Purpose of this contract is to secure Cadastral Surveying Services on an invdividual project basis for the following work located on the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota and Wyoming, Fort Pierre and Buffalo Gap National Grasslands in South Dakota. Acrual work locations and services have not been determined at this time. A contract will be negotiated with the highest ranked firm. The prices for the individual projects will be negotiated with the highes ranking firm first, and with each successive firm until a fair and reasonable price can be reached. Only firms with Registered Professional Surveyors licensed in state inwhich the project is locted will be considered. The inten of this announcement is to obtain a list of qualified professional surveying firms to survey and mark the legal property boundary of the National Forest and/or National Grasslands System lands for fiscall year 1999. The Government estimates six projects will be negotiated in 1999. These projects will include corner search, monumentation and perpetuation of all property and controlling corners associated with the surveys along with boundary posting and boundary maintenance. These projects may include Homestead Entry Surveys, Mineral Surveys, and Rectangular Sureys of the Public Land Survey System including section breakdown, Right-of-way surveys and Small Tracts Act surveys. A registered professional must be assigned to each project. Maps of the general area of the projects are available at: Black Hills National Forest, RR2 Box 200, Custer, SD 57730, Attn: Wayne C. Kewley, 605/673-2251. Contract time for each project will be negotiated and is not expected to exceed 365 calendar days and no allowance will be amde fo winter shutdown. Firms qualified and interested in providing professional surveing services of the type listed above are hereby invited to submit Standard Form 254, Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire. The evaluation criteria set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulations 36.602-1 will be used in conjunction with the following specialized selection criteria to assess your firms qualificaitons for cadastral survehing projects. Briefly address the following in narrative form; 1) Describe the procedures you have used to complete previouis cadastral surveys; 2) Discuss your experience in the past five years specifically related to cadastral surveys similar to those which might be encountered on a National Forest or Grassland project; 3) Discuss the approach you have used on previous surveys to resolve problems resulting from conflicting evidence. In accordance with fAR 4G36.602-2 the following will also be evaluated: 1) The volume of work previously awarded by the Forest Service will be evaluated with the objectiv of effecting an equitable distribution of the contracts amoung qualified A&E frims, including minority, 8(a) or other small disadvantaged business firms that have not had prior Forest Service contracts. Please submit one (1) complete copy of any of the above information to: USDA, Forest Service, Black Hills National Forest, RR2 Box 200, Custer, SD 57730, Attn: Wayne Kewley, Contracting Officer by close of business May 3, 1999. Posted 04/05/99 (W-SN316251). (0095)

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