Cherokee NF Cadastral Surveying Services 2016-2021

The USDA Forest Service Region 8–Southern Region established this Master IDIQ for professional land surveying services across the Cherokee National Forest in east Tennessee on April 30, 2016, but ordering closed on May 14, 2021, making this vehicle inactive for business development purposes. The five-year ordering window has been closed for more than five years, and all 15 task orders issued under the vehicle have been completed with $182 thousand in combined potential value fully obligated.

Work contracted under the vehicle focused exclusively on boundary line maintenance, retracement, and property surveys across four ranger districts (Watauga, Unaka, Tellico, and Ocoee) spanning ten east Tennessee counties. Task orders ranged from $2,646 to $29,525, with completion durations typically spanning five to twelve months. Ordering momentum peaked in 2017, when eight orders were placed; activity declined to three orders in 2019 and one in 2020.

Peak Geomatics LLC dominated the vehicle, capturing seven of fifteen task orders worth $105 thousand combined potential value—roughly 58% of all awards. Michael A. Barry and Lane S. Bishop & Associates, LLC each received two orders; Appalachian Land Surveying, Snyder Surveying, Inc., and Michael David Lowe each received one or two. Competition was limited to six primes across the vehicle's life. Ninety-three percent of orders carried no set-aside designation; a single small-business task order accounted for the remainder. All fifteen orders were placed by the same customer—the contracting Forest Service region itself—with no cross-agency demand.

The shared ceiling of $1.05 million was substantially underutilized. Firm fixed-price contracts at mileage rates ($1,500 per mile for boundary maintenance) and lump-sum pricing for specific tracts characterized the economics. This vehicle is closed to new ordering and pursuit.

USDA Forest Service, Cherokee National Forest has a requirement for Professional Land Survey services. These services are to be provided for lands within the administrative boundaries of the Cherokee National Forest, North Zone (Watauga and Unaka Ranger Districts) and South Zone (Tellico and Ocoee Ranger Districts) in the following east Tennessee counties: Polk, Monroe, McMinn, Cocke, Greene, Sullivan, Washington, Unicoi, Johnson, and Carter.