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B -- HERITAGE RESOURCE INVENTORY -- FANNY SOL RFP RMAST-99-086 DUE 060999 POC Marilyn Whalon (303) 275-5260, Fax No. (303) 275-5299; Christine O'Guin, Contracting Officer The project is a Level III Heritage Resource Inventory and Evaluation of all potentially eligible National Register of Historic Places, sites within specified Analysis Areas. The contract will be Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity, with a base year and two optional periods. The awarded Contractor will perform the first year within extremely tight deadlines for completion of deliverables during the base year. The Analysis Areas comprise, in total, an approximate 100,000 acres within the Custer/Elk Mountain Ranger District, located in the southwestern portion of the Black Hills National Forest, states of South Dakota and Wyoming. The purpose of the inventory is to identify and record all sites through a hundred percent foot survey, monitor those sites that have been previously recorded and subsequently evaluate for the National Register of Historic Places, all historic (cultural manifestations 50 or more years old) and all prehistoric (cultural manifestations 100 or more years old) potentially eligible properties identified as meeting one of the four criteria set out in the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended. The analysis area is 21,443 acres, and the scope of work, deadlines and deliverables will be outlined in Task Orders. Data derived from this project will be used to comply with the requirement of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, as amended, which pertain to effects of timber and range management on heritage resources. No Section 110 compliance activities are solicited. This is 100% small business set aside solicitation. Evaluation Factors: (1) past performance, particularly in relation to Forest Service policies related to heritage and resource management measures, monitoring, and land management plans -- Extremely Important; (2) qualifications, experience and professionalism of all staff -- Extremely Important; (3) skills, technical expertise and demonstrated abilities in geographical and heritage traditions in South Dakota and the northern Plains -- Very Important; (4) logistical and financial ability to meet the scope of work and specifications as written -- Very Important; (5) price -- Important. See Note #1. Posted 04/23/99 (W-SN323737). (0113)

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