USDA-Forest Service, Umatilla National Forest, 2517 S.W. Hailey Ave., Pendleton, OR 97801-3942

C -- A&E CONTRACT SOL R6-14-99-40 DUE 072399 POC contact DEBBIE DURFEY (541) 278-3843 OR PEGGY PATTEN (541) 278-3844 E-MAIL: ddurfey/r6pnw_umatilla@fs.fed.us, ddurfey/r6pnw_umatilla@fs.fed.us. PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE UMATILLA NATIONAL FOREST Solicitation No. R6-14-99-40, Blue Mountain 99 Survey Contract This notice is for an A & E multi-year (up to 5 years), multiple-award, multiple-year, indefinite quantities contracts. 3 to 5 top ranked firms will be selected for award. When projects become available task orders will be issued. Each contract may have a maximum of $150,000.00 over 5 year contract period. Professional surveying services are required for cadastral surveys, mineral surveys, right-of-way surveys, wilderness boundary surveys, site and engineering surveys. Work will include control survey, corner monumentation, marking and posting, records and reports, corner maintenance, and corner search. Contract time will be determined when task orders are issued. Survey projects under the contract will be located within the boundaries of the Malheur, Umatilla, and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests which encompasses National Forest System Lands in parts of the states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Exhibits 1, 2, and 3 in the task orders will provide the specific location and description of each project. Interested qualified firms are invited to respond by submitting SF 254, FS 255 and the following supplemental data: 1) Give a brief description of steps you will use to complete a cadastral survey. 2) Provide examples of land survey problems you have encountered on similar projects and how youresolved them. 3) Describe how records research will be accomplished. 4) Describe how control and tie line survey will be accomplished. 5) Describe what measurement and observations techniques will be used to assure compliance with contract specifications. 6) Describe your corner search process. 7) Describe how corner monumentation will be accomplished. 8) Describe how maintenance of existing corners will be accomplished. 9) Describe how locating and posting of property boundary will be accomplished. 10) Give the name, registration number and percent of time the Professional Land Surveyor in charge of the project will spend on each phase of work. 11) Provide a copy of a recent survey plat that is representative of your cadastral survey work which is similar to this project. Standard R-6 cadastral contract specifications may be acquired from the contracting Officer. Selection of firms for negotiation will be through an order of preference based on demonstrated competence and qualifications necessary for the satisfactory performance of the type of professional services required, that include: 1. PROFESSIONAL CAPABILITIES. Firms that demonstrate qualification of their assigned professional personnel as appropriate to the nature and size of the project solicited will be given greater consideration. 2. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCE IN THE TYPE OF WORK REQUIRED. Firms that demonstrate technical competence and experience completing projects similar to the type of work solicited herein will be given greater consideration. 3. PAST PERFORMANCE on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules. Greater consideration will be given to firms demonstrating that previous similar projects have been completed to high quality statndards within the time requirements. 4. LOCATION IN THE GENERAL GEOGRAPHICAL AREA of the project and knowledge of the locality of the project, provided the application of this criterion leaves an appropriate number of qualified firms, given the nature and size of the project. Firms demonstrating knowledge of, and experience working in the geographic area of the project performing similar services will be given greater consideration. 5. CAPACITY to accomplish the work in the required time. Firms providing evidence of commitment and ability to assign clearly sufficient, highly skilled personnel to accomplish the work within the specified time will be given greater consideration. 6. THE VOLUME OF WORK PREVIOUSLY AWARDED by Forest Service will be evaluated with the objective of effecting an equitable an equitable distribution of the contracts amoung qualified A & E firms, including minority, 8(a), or small disadvantaged firms that have not had prior Forest Services contracts. 7. AS PRESCRIBED IN FSAR 4G15.605(f), additional credit may be given to potential contractors who are subcontracting or will subcontract with certified 8(a) or other small disadvantaged businesses. This procedure will be allowed until units have met their small disadvantaged business goals (GAO B-223059, B22343). SUBMIT FORMS AND RELATED MATERIALS TO THE CONTRACTING OFFICER. MATERIAL WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH JULY 23, 1999. IT IS NOT SET-ABSIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESS. Posted 05/27/99 (W-SN336559). (0147)

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