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B -- LEVEL III HERITAGE RESOURCE INVENTORY & EVALUATION SOL RFP RMAST-99-029 DUE 032299 POC Gary A. Palmer (303) 275-5274; Contracting Officer Christine O'guin The project is identified as a Level III Heritage Resource Inventory and Evaluation of all potentially eligible, National Register of Historic Places, sites within specified Analysis Areas. The contract will be a Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity, with a base year and two optional periods. The awarded Contractor will work, perform the first year wihtin extremely tight deadlines for completion of deliverables during base year. These analysis areas comprise, in total, an approximate 100,000 acres within the Custer/Elk Mountain Ranger District, located in the southwestern portion of the Black Hills National Forest, States of South Dakota and Wyoming. The purpose of the inventory is to identify and record all sites through a one hundred percent foot survey, monitor those sites that have been previously recorded and subsequently evaluate for the National Register of Historic Places, all historic(cultrual manifestations 50 or more years old) and all prehistoric(cultural manifestations 100 or more years old) potentially eligible properties identified as meeting one of the four criteria set out in the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended. The analysis areas vary in size from 15,000 acres to 25,00 acres and the scopes of work, deadlines and deliverables will be outlined in Task Orders. Data derived from these projects will be used to comply with the requirements of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, and the Archeological Resources Protection Act, as amended, which pertain to potential effects of timber and range management on heritage resources. No Section 110 compliance activities are solicited. This is 100% small business set aside solicitation. Evaluation Factors: (1) past performance, particularly in relation to Forest Service policies related to heritage adn resource management measures, monitoring, and land management plans -- Extremely Important; (2) qualifications, experience and professionalism of all staff -- Extremely Important; (3) skills, technicalexpertise, and demonstrated abilities in geographical and heritage traditions in South Dakota and the northern Plains -- Very Important; (4) logistical and financial ability to meet the scope of work and specifications as written -- Very Important; and (5) price -- Important. See Note #1. Posted 01/29/99 (W-SN292685). (0029)

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