Natchez Trace Parkway, 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway, Tupelo, MS 38801

F -- AVIFAUNA INVENTORY AND MONITORING PROJECT SOL 1443RQ557098017 DUE 090998 POC Dale Wilkerson, Contracting Officer, (601) 680-4009 E-MAIL: Contracting Officer's e-mail link, dale_wilkerson@nps.gov. The National Park Service is seeking quotations to conduct a bird species inventory and monitoring project, specifically, an Avifauna Inventory Project. The National Park Service is responsible for the preservation of native wildlife, including bird species, within the 51,410 acre Natchez Trace Parkway. Currently, NPS managers at the Parkway possess neither a comprehensive baseline inventory nor the information upon which to base monitoring of the Parkway's avifauna breeding or otherwise utilizing park lands and waters. This project is designed to develop a park-wide inventory of bird species currently occurring at the Parkway. The 445 mile long Natchez Trace Parkway, which begins in Natchez, Mississippi, and ends near Nashville, Tennessee, traverses portions of four ecosystem provinces and twelve physiographic regions. The avian habitats encountered along its length include streams; lakes; swamps; riparian woodlands; bottomland hardwood forests; upland hardwood, pine and mixed forests; prairie; activeagricultural row and forage croplands; and fallow fields naturally converting to woodlands. As a management unit the Natchez Trace Parkway constitutes an extended linear ecological transect spanning portions of three states with the potential to support an atypical diverse assemblage of native bird species for a unit of the National Park System and the corresponding increased complexity in ensuring their perpetuation. Over 200 species are believed to inhabit or migrate through the area covered. The Natchez Trace Parkway Avifauna Inventory Project constitutes applied research designed to provide park managers with a baseline inventory documenting the current composition and distribution of bird species at the Parkway. Sampling approaches will include Breeding Bird Survey, Southeastern Point Count, and Road Counts for Raptor Species; no voucher specimens will be collected. The project timeline is anticipated as follows: Spring/Fall (1999) and Spring/Fall (2000)-sampling, transect surveys, and database assembly; Spring (2001)-present Final Report and Deliverables. All entities, as part of their quotation, will be asked to produce evidence of their capability and experience in performing the described services. The applicable Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this Notice is 8733, "Noncommercial Research Organizations." The anticipated magnitude of this project is between $50,000 and $100,000. This procurement is being conducted under full and open competition and utilizing Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The solicitation package will be available o/a August 14, 1998 and quotes will be due on September 9, 1998 (unless otherwise stated in the solicitation documents). Requests for solicitation may be in written or electronic form, and may be sent to the address listed in this notice, FAXed to (601) 840-7561, or E-Mailed to dale_wilkerson@nps.gov Posted 07/24/98 (W-SN228354). (0205)

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