USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Regional Office, 517 Gold Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102

D -- ONGOING ASSESSMENT OF UNGULATE GRAZING EFFECTS ON TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC VERTEBRATE SPECIES AND PLANTS ON ALL GRAZING ALLOTMENTS ON NATIONAL FORESTS OF THE SOUTHWEST REGION OF THE FOREST SERVICE. SOL R3-00-2 DUE 112499 POC Wilford Romero, Contract Specialist (505) 842-3342, wromero/r3@fs.fed.us or Barbara Castillo, Procurement Assistant (505) 842-3347 WEB: R3-00-2, http://cbdnet.access.gpo.gov. E-MAIL: /s=B.Castillo/ou1+r03a@mhs-fswa.attmail.com, CBD-submit@gpo.gov. Contract is for Geographic Information System (GIS) specialist to continue the assimilation and creation of a corporate database (spatial and attribute data). The project began in FY 1998, continued in FY 1999. The corporate system will be used as part of an ongoing assessment of ungulate grazing effects on terrestrial and aquatic vertebrate species and plants. The assessment is a complex process designed to help improve management decisions on all grazing allotments on National Forests of the Southwest Region of the Forest Service. The products or deliverables will be files and tapes of GIS data layers for Arizona and New Mexico. The SIC Code and size standards are 7379 and $18.0 respectively. The Forest Service intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Colorado State University (SO) in order to maintain the integrity of the project and/or work already completed by CSU under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253c(1). Only one responsible source and no other supplier or service will satisfy agency requirements under the authority of FAR 6.302.1. See numbered Note 22. Award will be made on or about December 20, 1999 or sooner. Posted 10/28/99 (W-SN396227). (0301)

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