USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service, FWFC, Bldg. 23, 501 Felix St., P.O. Box 6567, Fort Worth, TX 76115

T -- PHOTOGRAPHIC, MAPPING, PRINTING, & PUBLICATION SERVICES SOL NRCS-2-NBMC-99 DUE 090999 POC James H. Lowe, Contracting Officer, 817-509-3520 The National Cartography & Geospatial Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service requires the following services for a base period starting approximately 10/01/99 and ending 9/30/00, and an option period which would start appromimately 10/01/99 and ending 9/30/01, to be performed by a fully operational facility that is adequately staffed to handle the workload within the prescribed time frames, and experience in technical photography, encompassing multi-layer reduction and enlargement, with exact registration and follow-through: Group 1 -- Stripping -- register, strip and clean negatives of maps for composite photographic printing, either contact or projection. Maps may contain from 2 to 5 negatives; Group 2 -- Camera Work -- Max. original size -- 40" X 60", max. film size -- 42" X 72". Must be able to enlarge 450% on single exposures. Exposures are individually ratioed to a furnished percentage factor, with a tolerance of +/- 0.002 inches in 18 inches. Original material will be aerial photographs with inked lines or line originals on film or paper. Some original will require attaching a bar scale and/or identification tab before exposure; Group 3 -- Projection Printing -- Max. original size -- 40" X 60". Max. file size -- 42" X 72" Must be able to enlarge 450% on single exposure. Exposures are individually rationed to a furnished percentage factor, with a tolerance of +/- 0.002 inches in 18 inches. Original material will be aerial photographs with inked lines or lilne originals on film or paper. Some original will require attaching a bar scale and/or identification tab before exposure; Group 4 -- Contact Printing -- Max. film size -- 42" X 72". Contact printing from line or halftone copy, scribecoat, peelcoat, continuous tone, etc. Frequent negative to negative and positive requirements. Occasionally stacking of two positves during one exposure to obtain a single negative is required; Group 5 -- Color Proofing -- Individual Colors. Color proofs on 3M color Key material or Dupont Cromacheck materials from negatives, scribecoat, peelcoat, etc. Some negatives will be pre-scribed while others will require screening to specified percentage. Composite exposures may also be required. Screening will be standard printing angles for each color. Color required will be black, magenta, process yellow, cyan, process blue, green, red, orange, and brown. Type of material will also be secified, based on size of materials available or prefenece. 42" X 60" maximum film size. Resultant Contract is subject to the Service Contract Act, and the place of performance is unknown. Wage determinations have been requested from Texas. The Contracting Officer will request wage determinations for additonal localities if asked to do so by August 10, 1999. Prospective bidders must bid for the option contract period as well as the basic contract period. Award as an indefinite-deliver requirements-type contract will be made to the responsible bidder whose bid, conforming to the invitation forbid, will be most advantageous to the Government considering only price and the price-related factors included in the invitation. The Government reverves the right to decide to modify the contract for coverage of the option period for the pricing submitted in response to this solicitation. Request for Solicitation No. NRCS-2-NBMC-99 must reference the solicitation number and be made in writing to the address above or via e-mail to: jlowe@ftw.nrcs.usda.gov. A pre-bid conference is anticipated. Posted 07/21/99 (W-SN357089). (0202)

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