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F -- SURVEYING AND MONITORING OF DESERT TORTOISE SOL N68711-98-M-5716 DUE 032698 POC Waimie Vann/Contract Specialist/619-532-2077 The Government intends to award a Sole Source, Simplified Acquisition Procedure (SAP), to KIVA Biological Consulting firm to surveying and monitoring of Desert Tortoise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California. No other price quotes or proposals will be accepted. This project will detect desert tortoise through surveying, pre-clearance surveys, and monitoring the tortoise populations over the long period. This project will also detect the tortoise shell disease. The KIVA has unique capabilities and tortoise information data that is extremely beneficial to the govrnment and will meet the time and technical requirements of this project. (0082)

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