SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Archeological excavation services; North Cascades NPS Complex; Ross Lake, Washington
- Notice Date
- 3/1/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- PWR - NOCA - North Cascades NPS Complex 810 State Route 20 Sedro-Woolley WA 98284
- ZIP Code
- 98284
- Solicitation Number
- Q9471111061
- Response Due
- 3/28/2011
- Archive Date
- 2/29/2012
- Point of Contact
- Sarah J. Welch Contract Specialist 3608547220 Sarah_welch@nps.gov;
- E-Mail Address
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Point of Contact above, or if none listed, contact the IDEAS EC HELP DESK for assistance
(EC_helpdesk@NBC.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- DESCRIPTION: This Request for Quotation is for excavation, data recovery, and documentation of archeological site 45WH253 on Ross Lake during reservoir drawdown, approximately mid-April through late June 2011. The site is located on a flat glacial terrace at ca. 1580 ft elevation and is described as a large, open, pre-contact period lithic scatter provisionally dated between 7,000 and 600 years old, based on diagnostic projectile point fragments and one radiocarbon date. The site appears to have functioned as a short-term base camp where early- and late-stage bifaces were manufactured from locally-procured tool stone. The site's annual exposure to reservoir shoreline erosion processes may have altered site conditions since original field testing in 1989-1990. No pre-contact period human burials, gravesites, ceremonial features, or sacred objects have been recorded or reported at the project area. The contractor shall employ standard methods for surface mapping of artifacts, site mapping, excavation of shovel or test probes, excavation of stratigraphy trenches and pits, and full-scale excavation using 1x1 and 2x2 m square excavation units, as needed to perform data recovery. The contractor shall employ standard laboratory and analytic techniques to describe, identify, and classify archeological collections, as well as prepare an inventory of all artifacts recovered from excavation units, to include their provenience, class or artifact category, age assessment, and context (in situ or disturbed). The contractor shall prepare a report describing laboratory methods, field methods, and their results, along with archeological interpretations of the data that address issues and objectives of the research design. LOCATION: The project area is located within the drawdown zone at the southern end of Ross Lake near Ten Mile Island, eastern Whatcom County, Washington, on lands managed by the National Park Service. It is comprised of the exposed and devegetated reservoir bottom lands ("drawdown zone"), where reservoir sediments and eroded soils are exposed to air for a short time each year. Directions to the site will be provided in the RFQ, but be advised there is no direct road or trail access to this site. Information about Ross Lake may be found at http://www.nps.gov/noca/planyourvisit/boating-and-fishing.htm SITE VISIT: Offerors are encouraged to participate in a site visit on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. The purpose of the visit will be to familiarize offerors with the site and the somewhat complicated logistics of getting there. If you plan to attend, register by e-mail to the COR (bob_mierendorf@nps.gov) by 4:30 pm Friday, March 11. The site visit will begin at the NPS Curation Building, 7280 Ranger Station Road, Marblemount WA, at 10:00 a.m. and will end there in the mid-afternoon. Bring a lunch and dress appropriately for a variety of weather conditions. SOLICITATION DETAILS: This is a best value procurement set-aside for small business concerns. The NAICS code for this project is 541720 and the small business size standard is $7.0 million. The electronic Request for Quotations will be available on approximately March 1, 2011, at www.fedbizopps.gov and http://ideasec.nbc.gov. In order to download the solicitation, interested vendors must register at http://ideasec.nbc.gov and maintain an active registration at http://www.ccr.gov. Offers are due at 4:30 pm on March 28, 2011. The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOI/NPS/APC-IS/Q9471111061/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Ross Lake WA; Whatcom county
- Zip Code: 98267
- Zip Code: 98267
- Record
- SN02390518-W 20110303/110301234911-113be0b1d94578fefcf0567bab92e57e (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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