Indefinite Delivery Contract AG4670C150162

This Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract was awarded on August 25, 2015 by the USDA Forest Service Research Service Southern Research Station to Ruark, Virginia, a small business, for layout specialist services. The potential value of the master contract is $300,000. The contract includes multiple task orders for services such as layout of conference proceedings, carbon study reports, and general layout services in support of the agency's forest growth and yield modeling research programs. Task orders were awarded from August 2015 through December 2016 for a total of approximately $17,050 and completed through July 2017. Services were performed in Asheville and Woodfin, North Carolina.

The task orders awarded under this IDV include layout of the Forest Vegetation Simulator conference proceedings for $1,200, with work completed by July 2017 in Asheville. Other task orders were for layout of a Tretton carbon study report for $0, layout services for $7,900 completed by December 2016, and initial layout specialist services for $7,050 completed by August 2016. All task orders were awarded on a firm-fixed-price basis to the prime contractor, Ruark, Virginia, a small business. The purpose of this contract is to provide layout and design services that support the dissemination and communication of the Forest Service's Southern Research Station programs and studies related to forest growth modeling and forecasting.