National Forest Resource Inventories and Site Evaluations 2016-2019

The U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) established this Master IDIQ on July 6, 2016 to procure cultural resource inventories and National Register of Historic Places site evaluations for project areas on the Black Hills National Forest (South Dakota and Wyoming), Medicine Bow National Forest and Thunder Basin National Grasslands (Wyoming), and Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands (Nebraska and South Dakota). Ordering closed on May 31, 2019, and this vehicle is no longer active.

All 15 task orders under the vehicle were awarded in 2016, between August 1 and December 19, with completion dates ranging from early 2017 through late 2018. The combined potential value is $995 thousand, and 100% of that amount has been obligated. Task-order values ranged from approximately $6 thousand to $166 thousand, with firm fixed-price pricing across all orders.

Hope Archaeology Inc. and Interior West Consulting LLC dominate the competitive base, holding 6 and 5 orders respectively and accounting for roughly 71% of combined potential value ($374 thousand and $335 thousand). Niwot Archaeological Consultants, Inc. received 3 orders ($187 thousand), and North Wind Resource Consulting LLC received 1 order ($99 thousand). The distribution reflects strong concentration among the top two primes.

Ninety-three percent of orders carried a total small-business set-aside, with only one order (the Hell Canyon Lost task) awarded without a set-aside designation. All orders funded the single customer, Forest Service Region 2, indicating no agency diversification across the vehicle.

Work was performed at discrete project sites across the Black Hills, Medicine Bow, and Nebraska forest units, with task-order scopes tied to specific timber sales, heritage surveys, and cultural resource evaluations. Typical order values averaged $66 thousand, and most work was completed within six to twelve months.

The U.S. Forest Service has an anticipated requirement to obtain services for cultural resource inventories and National Register of Historic Places site evaluations within project areas located on the Black Hills National Forest (South Dakota and Wyoming), the Medicine Bow National Forest and Thunder Basin National Grasslands (Wyoming), and the Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands (Nebraska and South Dakota).