Umatilla NF Cultural Resource Survey 2016-2021

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region established this multiple-award IDIQ for cultural resource surveys at the Umatilla National Forest, with ordering closed as of September 30, 2021. The vehicle is no longer active; the last task order was awarded on May 21, 2021, and all $1.3 million in combined potential value has been obligated across 30 orders.

The scope encompasses intensive heritage resource survey, eligibility determinations for historic and prehistoric sites, archaeological site monitoring and assessments, National Register of Historic Places nominations, and archaeological site testing and data recovery work.

Nakonechny, Lyle D. dominated the vehicle by count and dollar value, holding 15 of 30 orders worth $605 thousand combined potential value. Logan Simpson Design Inc. and Sundance Consultants, LLC. split the remainder, with six orders each valued at $377 thousand and $214 thousand respectively. Mitzi Rossillon, Consulting Archaeologist, LLC held three orders worth $97 thousand. All work was performed for the Umatilla National Forest with no interagency ordering.

Task orders were split between small business set-asides and unrestricted awards: 16 orders (53 percent) carried small business designations, with the remaining 14 orders (47 percent) unrestricted. Set-aside orders ranged from $2,520 to $50,915 in value; unrestricted orders ranged from $10,700 to $210,669. The largest single order was the Ten Cent RX Fire Areas Cultural Resources Surveys task order at $210,669, awarded July 25, 2017. Most task orders employed firm fixed pricing with one-to-two-year performance periods tied to specific forest projects: fire recovery areas, mechanical thinning operations, vegetation management, and salvage sales.

Ordering activity concentrated early; 11 of 30 orders were awarded in 2017, with annual activity declining to just one order by 2021, reflecting the vehicle's eventual exhaustion.

This multiple award IDIQ contract for the Umatilla National Forest will cover the following cultural resources survey objectives: 1) Intensive heritage resource survey, 2) Determining eligibility for selected historic and/or prehistoric sites, 3) Completing archaeological site monitoring and/or assessments for selected prehistoric and/or historic sites, 4) Completing nominations for National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for selected sites, 5) Conducting archaeological site testing and data recovery