Chattahoochee-Oconee Boundary Line Maintenance

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8-Southern Region established this Master IDIQ for boundary line maintenance on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in Georgia on June 13, 2014, with a shared ceiling of $500 thousand. Ordering closed on June 12, 2019, and is no longer active; the vehicle has been expired for over seven years.

The vehicle is closed to new orders and pursuit is not viable. The last task order award occurred on August 31, 2017. Thirty task orders were issued across a four-year active ordering window, with combined potential value of $314 thousand fully obligated. The ordering pattern peaked in 2015 (12 orders) and declined thereafter (7 orders in 2017), signaling reduced customer demand before the vehicle's June 2019 cutoff.

Scope centers on refurbishing forest boundary markings—repainting marked trees, securing boundary signs, maintaining corner accessories including bearing trees and witness objects, perpetuating corner monuments, and updating Form FS-7100-52 Corner Cards. Task orders specify work by ranger district: Chattooga River, Blue Ridge, Conasauga, and Oconee districts, with scopes measured in miles of boundary line and corner counts (ranging from five miles and 32 corners to 81 miles and 310 corners).

Competition concentrated heavily among individual surveyors and small firms. Luckett, Larry dominated with 15 orders and $135 thousand combined potential value (43% of vehicle activity). Kuykendall David G held 8 orders and $89 thousand. Lane S. Bishop & Associates, LLC, Reach.cognitions, LLC, and Chastain Land Surveying, LLC captured the remainder. The customer was exclusively the R8-Southern Region across all 30 orders.

Approximately 87% of task orders (26 of 30) carried small business set-asides, with 13% awarded without set-aside. Task orders were firm-fixed-price delivery orders; typical values ranged from approximately $2,998 to $24.5 million, with most orders falling in the $4 thousand to $18 thousand range, and completion periods typically four to twelve months.

The Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in Georgia has awarded a Master IDIQ for maintenance of forest land boundary lines. Work involves refurbishing property line markings (e.g. repainting previously marked trees, securing boundary signs), refurbishing corner accessories (bearing trees or witness objects), perpetuating corner monuments, and updating form FS-7100-52 Corner Card to reflect the work done.