USDA, Forest Service, Acquisition Management Staff, 3 South, 1323 Club Drive, Vallejo, CA 94592

F -- NATURAL RESOURCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES SOL R5-00-20-015 DUE 062600 POC Sheila Georges, 707-562-8788 E-MAIL: dbandur/r5@fs.fed.us, dbandur/r5@fs.fed.us. The United States Forest Service Region 5 (California) intends to solicit firms having the ability and skill to adequately provide scientific and professional services contributing to the timber sale program and other resources management activities. Work will be at various locations throughout the State of California. Firms are required to have an office in California. This solicitation will consist of two major work categories, independent of each other: Activity One and Activity Two. Firms may submit proposals for one or both work activities. Activity One involves projects predominately in support of, but not limited to, Timber sale Preparation such as gathering resource data, compiling such data into reports for subsequent NEPA analysis by Forest Service for resource management activities. Task orders may include surveys involving cultural resources, threatened, endangered, or sensitive species, soils, geology, hydrology, and others. Logging systems and transportation analysis may be included. Implementation of projects may include locating timber sale boundaries, cruising and designating timber, identifying sensitive areas such as cultural resource areas streamside protection buffers and wildlife features while producing appropriate documentation, such as electronic files or maps. Activity Two consists projects in support of other Natural Resources Management such as investigations, assessment and implementation of aspects of ecosystem restoration, road decommissioning, or stream course restoration. Many of task orders are similar to those for timber sale preparation described above. Task orders may include surveys involving cultural resources, threatened, endangered, or sensitive species, soils, geology, hydrology, watershed analysis, transporation analysis, civil engineering inspection or design and other professional services. The contractor will be reqired to demonstrate a certain level of expertise. Firms should have the capability of performing the work with in-house personnel or demonstrate a successful past performance of management over specialized professional and technical subcontractors. Two to five contractors per activity will be selected for a basic performance period of one year with two (2) one year renewal options. After award, selected contractors will compete for individual work assignments, which range from $5,000 to $200,000 with a majority of the assignments, costing less than $50,000. The contract ceiling is $500,000 per year, per firm. This is not guaranteed amount of work. This solicitation is open to both large and small business firms. Interested firms should submit a written request for this solicitation prior to May 15, 2000: USDA Forest Seervice, Attn: Sheila Georges, 1323 Club Drive-Mare Island, Vallejo, CA 94592. Reference Solicitation R5-00-20-015. Or by FAX 707-562-9043. (Must confirm receipt of FAX with Sheila Georges 707-562-8788 or with Cookie Washington 707-562-8789). The Contracting Officer is Don Bandur.***** Posted 04/11/00 (W-SN443686). (0102)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0042 20000413\F-0001.SOL)