USDA-Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Okanogan National Forest, 1240 S. Second Ave., Okanogan, WA 98840

C -- EASTERN WASTINGTON CADASTRAL SURVEY SOL R6-8-98-11 DUE 043098 POC Blake Hendrick 509-826-3073 Professional land survey services are required for the Okanogan, Wenatchee and Colville National Forests concerning property and wilderness boundaries. Services will be awarded on an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity type contract with a contract period from June, 1998 through September, 2000. Project work may involve cadastral survey, wilderness boundary survey, or preliminary route survey for low volume Forest roads. Each task order may contain requirements for records research, control survey, section subdivision, corner search, corner monumentation, marking & posting of property line or wilderness boundary, maintenance of posted property line, maintenance of property corners, records & reports, and preliminary route surveys. Amount of work is estimated at 170 kilometers (105 miles) total, and therefore, multiple awards are contemplated to meet this volume of work. The evaluation criteria for this project (in descending order of importance) include: (1) Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of the required services. (2) Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required including, where appropriate, experience in energy conservation, pollution prevention, waste reduction, and the use of recovered materials. Include the name and registration number of the professional land surveyor proposed to be in charge of the project and show the percentage of time that surveyor will spend on each phase of the project. (3) Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time, including consideration to volume of work and nature of present workload as it relates to ability to perform the work required. In addition, a firm's ability to assign clearly sufficient, highly skilled personnel to accomplish the work within the specified time or for task orders with accelerated schedules on short notice will be evaluated. (4) Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules. (5) Location in the general geographical area of the project and knowledge of the locality of the project provided that application of this criterion leaves an appropriate number of qualified firms, given the nature and size of the project. Interested firms shall submit Standard Form 254, Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire, to provide information concerning the firm's general qualifications; and Standard Form 255, Architect-Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for specific Project, to provide more detailed information concerning qualifications specific to this project. Submit all forms to the Contracting Officer, Okanogan National Forest, 1240 South Second Avenue, Okanogan, WA 98840. Responses are due 4:30 P.M.. local time, April 30, 1998. Envelopes containing SF-254 and SF-255 submittals in response to this ad should place the following in the lower left hand corner of the envelope: R6-8-98-11, Eastern Washington Cadastral Survey, Due 4:30 P.M., April 30,1998. This project is not set aside for small business. (0090)

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