MODIFICATION
R -- Traditional Cultural Knowledge Assistance Services at the Seattle District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albeni Falls Dam & Pend Oreille Lake Project, Bonner County, Idaho.
- Notice Date
- 4/7/2014
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 712120
— Historical Sites
- Contracting Office
- USACE District, Seattle, ATTN: CENWS-CT, PO Box 3755, Seattle, WA 98124-3755
- ZIP Code
- 98124-3755
- Solicitation Number
- W912DW-14-R-0014
- Response Due
- 4/22/2014
- Archive Date
- 6/6/2014
- Point of Contact
- Sonia Frees, 206-764-3516
- E-Mail Address
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USACE District, Seattle
(sonia.m.frees@usace.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Point of Contact(s): Dustin Smith, (206) 764-6741, email: dustin.j.smith@usace.army.mil This is an advance notice announcing the intent of the Seattle District US Army Corps of Engineers to award a firm fixed price non-personal services indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for Traditional Cultural Knowledge Assistance Services at the Seattle District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Albeni Falls Dam and Pend Oreille Lake Project, Bonner County, Idaho to the Kalispel Tribe of Indians. The contract will include a base period and two option periods. The potential duration of the contract is three years. The following narrative outlines the work necessary by this requirement. General Requirements for the Services. Pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), PL 89-665, 16 USC 407, et seq, the Corps is required to take into account the effect of its undertakings on any district, site, building, structure, or object included in, or eligible for inclusion in, the National Register (16 U.S.C. 470 f). If the undertaking is found to have an adverse effect on properties, the Corps must consider actions to address the effects, including measures to preserve historic properties. All of the steps in the process must occur in consultation with the associated Indian tribes. The process includes evaluating the significance of the historic properties, and requires access to information about the properties that is in sole possession of Indian tribes, specifically the Kalispel Tribe. Furthermore, the Native Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Public Law 101-601, 25 USC 3001, et seq, requires the Corps to consult with Indian tribes immediately following inadvertent discovery of cultural items or ancestral skeletal remains on Federal or tribal lands. NAGPRA also requires the Corps to inventory and repatriate human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony to the affiliated tribes. Special Nature of the Services. In the case at hand, the Historic Properties of Religious and Cultural Significance to Indian Tribes (HPRCSIT) and any items from them are primarily associated with the Kalispel Tribe. The Kalispel Tribe's adjudicated ceded lands include nearly all of the Project's cultural resource sites from Albeni Falls Dam to the Clark Fork River delta, excluding only a small portion with few sites (mainly Euro-American historic) at the extreme southern end of Pend Oreille Lake within the Coeur d'Alene Tribe's ceded area. The Kalispel Tribe also has tribally owned lands at the project with several historic properties and is the primary tribe for NAGPRA inadvertent discovery actions in the subject project areas. In order to evaluate the significance of HPRCSIT, it is necessary to understand the cultural knowledge associated with them. The Kalispel Tribe has confidential information and years of accumulated oral historical knowledge of HPRCSIT within the Project. No other organization has this knowledge and experience. Only the Kalispel Tribe can access the persons having the knowledge of the stories associated with the HPRCSITs. Furthermore, consultation responsibilities of USACE to the Kalispel Tribe when implementing Section 3 of NAGPRA will most likely be accomplished if the Kalispel Tribe is the contractor for dealing with inadvertent discoveries. Materials collected from HPRCSITs during management activities are the property of the Government, but are held in trust for the Kalispel Tribe, except for NAGPRA-eligible items which are directly Kalispel Tribe property. Knowledge of Kalispel perspectives, traditions and cultural practices centered on HPRCSIT at the project is held by members of the Kalispel Tribe, is considered confidential with the Tribe, and is not accessible to others without agreement of the Kalispel Tribe Business Committee. Information provided to the Government as a result of this posting is strictly voluntary and given with no expectation of compensation and clearly provided at no cost to the Government. The relevant North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 712120 (Historical Sites) with the applicable small business size standard of $7.0 million in annual gross receipts. A previous Sources Sought-Notice of Intent was posted on 11 March 2014. The posting can be found at the following internet address, (https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USA/COE/DACA67/W912DW-13-R-0030/listing.html). The solicitation is anticipated to be distributed on/or about 22 April 2014. On or about 22 April 2014, the solicitation documents for this project will be available via the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website at https://www.fbo.gov/ under solicitation number W912DW-14-R-0014. You must be registered with the FBO website to download the solicitation documents. NO CD's OR HARD COPIES WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE. Offerors are responsible for checking the referenced page for any update(s) to this Notice. The Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for an offeror's inability to access the documents posted at the referenced website. To obtain automatic notifications of updates to this solicitation, you MUST log in to www.fbo.gov and add the solicitation to your quote mark Watchlist. quote mark If you would like to list your firm so others can see you are an interested vendor, you must click the quote mark Add Me to Interested Vendors quote mark button in the listing for this solicitation on www.fbo.gov. For additional Seattle District Contracting opportunities, visit the Army Single Face to Industry at https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/sol_list.cfm?pContractOfcID=165 or go to the FedBizOps postings at https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=list&tab=list for the latest listings. Put Engineer District, Seattle in the Keywords/SOL #: box for Seattle District listings only. Contracting Office Address: US Army Engineer District, Seattle, ATTN: CENWS-CT, PO Box 3755, Seattle, WA 98124-3755 Place of Performance: US Army Engineer District, Seattle ATTN: CENWS-CT, PO Box 3755 Seattle WA 98124-3755 US Point of Contact(s): Dustin Smith, (206) 764-6741, email: dustin.j.smith@usace.army.mil US Army Engineer District, Seattle ________________________________________
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- Place of Performance
- Address: USACE District, Seattle ATTN: CENWS-CT, PO Box 3755 Seattle WA
- Zip Code: 98124-3755
- Zip Code: 98124-3755
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