USFS R3 Mapping and Surveying 2016-2021

The Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) established this Master IDIQ for professional surveying and mapping services on December 22, 2015, with an ordering period that closed on February 14, 2021—the vehicle is no longer accepting new delivery orders. The $1.5 million shared ceiling supported 16 task orders between May 2016 and July 2019, with combined potential value of $626 thousand, fully obligated. This vehicle is closed to new pursuit.

Scope covers aerial photography acquisition, photogrammetric mapping, LiDAR collection, orthophotography production, topographic and boundary surveys, bathymetric survey, planimetric surveys, and GIS services including ESRI geodatabase development and spatial-data transformation. Awarded delivery orders focus heavily on post-fire aerial photography, mine-site and watershed mapping, LiDAR acquisition for watershed and forest-management planning, and boundary surveys across Region 3 national forests (Coronado, Coconino, Kaibab, Prescott, Tonto, Gila, Cibola, and Santa Fe). Task orders consistently specify firm fixed price, with individual ceiling values ranging from approximately $8.5 thousand to $103.7 thousand and performance periods typically 6 to 24 months.

Competition concentrated entirely between two firms: Geoterra Inc. (8 orders, $363 thousand combined potential value) and NV5 Geospatial, Inc. (8 orders, $263 thousand combined potential value), splitting the portfolio evenly by order count. All 16 delivery orders were unrestricted, competitive procurements. All customer activity derived from the Forest Service Region 3 Southwestern Region itself.

Ordering momentum declined sharply over the vehicle's active life—6 orders in 2016, 5 in 2017, 3 in 2018, and 2 in 2019. The three-year hiatus between the final delivery order (July 2019) and the February 2021 ordering deadline suggests the vehicle was allowed to expire without follow-on activity. No successor vehicle is identified in the source material.

Professional Surveying and mapping services are required to support the US Forest Service which include but are not limited to the planning, design, and construction of engineering projects. These services may include photogrammetric mapping requiring acquisition of film and/or digital aerial photography, aerotriangulation, stereo mapping compilation, orthophotography, land use/land cover interpretation, creation of horizontal and vertical control networks, ground control for support of photogrammetric and LiDAR mapping, topographic mapping using total stations or Global Positioning Systems(GPS); boundary surveys, bathymetric survey, detailed planimetric surveys; profile, cross section surveys. Geographic Information System (GIS) services required under this contract may include the creation, implementation, transformation, manipulation of spatial data supporting the management of ESRI Geodatabases.