A04_44036990_SAGU-02-216-7_SOW_Soliciation.pdf

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEY SERVICES

SCOPE OF WORK FOR BOUNDARY SURVEY

NPS TRACTS 02-216 & 02-217

SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK

PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA

PROJECT TITLE: SAGU ACQUISITION BOUNDARY SURVEY

DATE: 1/26/2026

CONTENTS

I. PROJECT INFORMATION/LIMITS OF SURVEY:

II. PROJECT DETAILS:

PERFORMANCE PERIOD AND SCHEDULE:

PROJECT STAFF:

STANDARD SURVEY TASKS:

SURVEY & MAPPING CONTROL:

DELIVERABLES:

III. POINTS OF CONTACT:

IV. DATA AND MATERIALS PROVIDED BY NPS:

V. OTHER CONTRACT DETAILS:

DEFINITIONS:

CONFIDENTIALITY:

INSPECTION AND ACCEPTANCE:

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL FINDINGS:

INSURANCE:

BROOKS ACT PROHIBITION:

I. PROJECT INFORMATION/LIMITS OF SURVEY:

General Project Location:

NPS Tract SAGU 02-216 T. 13 S., R. 12 E., G&SRM, NE1/4 of Section 21.

Lat. 32° 17′ 29″ N., Long. 111° 07′ 04″ W. (NAD83)

NPS Tract SAGU 02-217 T. 13 S., R. 12 E. G&SRM, SW1/4 of Section 27.

Lat. 32° 15′ 56″ N., Long. 111° 05′ 53″ W. (NAD83)

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This survey project has two separate areas of interest that are located within the Tucson Mountain District (westernmost unit) of Saguaro National Park. The National Park Service is working to or has acquired parcels in an attempt to complete landownership within the legislated boundary of the park. The purpose of these acquisitions is to connect the Sweetwater Preserve to the National Park, in an area nicknamed the Sweetwater land bridge.

Both of the land surveys described in this SOW will include work to locate, identify and/or establish the boundaries of each parcel, marked with durable survey monuments at the corner points of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) or angle points defining private lands.

The first parcel is SAGU-02-216, located in the NE1/4 of Section 21 in T. 13 S., R. 12 E., G&SRM and is approximately 60.1 acres. The parcel is vacant land and currently owned by Pima County, held as county conservation land within the Saguaro National Park boundary.

This parcel surrounds a private land parcel on three sides that has a physical address of 7100 West El Camino Del Cerro, Tucson, AZ 85745, shown as Parcel Identification No.

21438001-C in the Pima County Assessor’s Records. The PLSS lines in the NE1/4 were last surveyed in 2002 as shown on land survey plats available in the Pima County Clerk and Recorder’s Office. No previous land surveys of the private land owned by Ben Chavis were located during government research, however, 60d nails were located at the angle points of the deed description during the field investigation. NPS will provide all documents located during a search of the county records in 2024. The contract will survey/resurvey the boundary of the parcel and include any easements of record on the final survey plat. The NPS will provide a current title commitment for this property.

The second parcel is SAGU-02-217, acquired by NPS on July 30, 2025, by Warranty Deed recorded under Document No. 20252110004, in the Pima County Clerk and Recorder’s Office. This parcel has a physical address at 6250 West Sweetwater Drive, Tucson, AZ, 85745. This parcel was originally surveyed by Gene E. Anderson, Registered Professional Engineer (Civic) No. 2368, shown on the Record of Survey filed on September 5, 1980, recorded in Book 3, Page 46 in the Pima County Clerk and Recorder’s Office. The subject parcel is shown as an “EXCLUDED” area on the survey plat and has been described in deeds as the “south 660 feet of the east 990 feet…”. A field investigation was completed for this parcel to locate boundary evidence of the location of the parcel. During the field work, 60d nails were located at the angle points of the parcel and at various points along the line. Both points along the north line of the parcel along with the southwest intersection with the section line to sections 27 and 34 will be monumented according to standards set forth in Section II.

(2) of this SOW. The contractor will survey/resurvey the boundary of the parcel including all improvements, i.e., fences, windmills, water tanks and easements both visible and of record.

The NPS will provide a current title commitment for this property.

NPS has two concerns with the future survey of this parcel:

The first is the monument for the Section Corner to sections 26, 27, 34, and 35, being a 2.5-inch diameter iron pipe, no cap with a 60d nail in the middle. Considering that this corner position is an angle point of the public lands, NPS would like to have this monument upgraded.

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The second concern is the East 1/16th section corner to sections 27 and 34. At this position, the field investigation discovered two survey monuments approximately 1-foot apart, purporting to be the same aliquot corner. The contractor will be required to determine the correct position of the section line in order to place the southwest corner of the subject parcel in its correct position.

A land survey plat for each parcel (2 total) will be prepared and filed in records of Pima County, Arizona.

II. PROJECT DETAILS:

PERFORMANCE PERIOD AND SCHEDULE:

The selected firm can begin work on the day the contract is signed by both the federal contracting officer and company representative. All work will be completed and delivered in 180 days.

Draft deliverables will be submitted electronically to the technical POC listed in Section III for review no later than 120 days after award. The reviewer will provide approval or request for changes within 14 days of receipt of the draft documents. The contractor will deliver all final products including the recorded plat by the end of the period of performance of 180 days.

PROJECT STAFF:

Project staff must include an individual who is a Registered Professional Land Surveyor in Arizona fully qualified to perform land surveys, prepare legal descriptions, and comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. This person shall be the responsible charge for the land survey work and all land survey decisions.

STANDARD SURVEY TASKS:

The contractor will provide labor, equipment and supplies to complete a boundary survey compliant with Arizona State Statutes. In addition, the following tasks will be completed:

1. Landowner Contacts (complete prior to field work)

a. Contact the NPS park contact and private landowner (if applicable) to provide times and dates of entry and coordinate any logistics regarding physical access to the project area (reference Section III for contact information).

b. Contact all adjoining private property owners and obtain permission for entry, if needed.

2. New Survey Monuments

a. Park boundary monuments established or missing monuments re-established on any angle points, lot or parcel corners coincident with the legislated boundary line1 of the National Park will be at a minimum a ⅝ inch diameter iron rod or rebar, 30 inches long with 2 inch diameter metal cap stamped, “NPS/PARK/ Project Point No./YEAR/RPLS No.” Cap markings of corners of the Public Land Survey System will be appropriately marked according to Chapter 4 of the 2009 Manual of Survey Instructions. Corners located in bedrock will be a minimum of a 2-inch diameter

SOW, Boundary Survey Services Page 4 of 6 brass or bronze cap with 3-inch stem, drilled and set in place with concrete or epoxy. (1 see Definitions in Section V)

b. Private property monuments established on lands interior to the legislated park boundary (a.k.a. private inholding parcels), will be at a minimum a ⅝ inch diameter iron rod or rebar, 30 inches long with 1 inch diameter metal cap stamped with the surveyor’s or firm’s license number and year of the project. Any boundary monuments re-established on controlling corners adjoining the project area or outside the legislated boundary will comply with current federal, state or local requirements and will be noted on the plat.

c. Temporary project control point(s) established will comply with current federal, state or local requirements and will be removed after field work is completed and draft deliverables have been approved.

d. Corner locations that are inaccessible will have a reference monument installed to the same criteria listed above, established on-line near the actual corner.

3. Additional Survey Tasks

a. Rights of way and physical access. This includes visible evidence of physical access to the property (curb cuts, driveways, gravel roads, two-tract roads, pedestrian trails, railroads, etc.) and adjoining public streets or highways observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork.

b. Apparent easements and servitudes. Evidence of any easements or servitudes serving or burdening the surveyed property as disclosed by any documents provided by NPS or any evidence of physical uses, disturbances or utility infrastructure not of record observed in the process of conducting fieldwork.

These may include manholes, vents, ditches, telecommunication pedestals, or other visible utility connections or crossings.

c. Buildings and structures on the surveyed property observed in the process of conducting the fieldwork.

d. All fences and retaining walls interior to the property boundary.

e. All areas and features of encroachment onto USA/private lands.

SURVEY & MAPPING CONTROL:

All reported horizontal distances will be based on ground measurements in either U.S. or International Feet at the discretion of the surveyor or as required by law. The basis of bearings for the project is at the discretion of the surveyor. Both the units and basis of bearings will be noted on the plat.

At least two survey monuments (existing or new) within the project extents will serve as mapping control points. These can be existing property corner monuments, project control points, NGS monuments or combination thereof. Both will be described and referenced on the final plat in Arizona State Plane Grid Coordinates, Central Zone, NAD 83(2011), U.S. Survey Feet. The grid coordinate pairs for each point and combined scale factor from ground to grid will also be noted. If either control point is not a boundary monument, sufficient information will be included to tie it to a boundary monument.

These points should be located on opposite sides of the project area if possible. At least one of the control points will be occupied by a dual-frequency GPS unit for a minimum

SOW, Boundary Survey Services Page 5 of 6 of four hours. A current Online Positional User Service (OPUS) solution data sheet for this monument will be provided as a deliverable.

DELIVERABLES:

All deliverables and products created under this project including such items certified plats of survey, field notes and research documents used to produce this survey and descriptions are considered property of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. In addition to the recorded survey plat, the following items will be provided as a deliverable:

1) AutoCAD .dwg or compatible file used to create the land survey plat. Drawing layer names should be spelled out to better clarify each feature (avoid abbreviations). All text shall be in the OA Simplex style.

2) Geospatial shapefiles of land survey data. A shapefile or Trimble Business Center .job file will be provided in the project grid coordinate system referenced in the Statement of Work to include: 1) a line feature with all of the surveyed line data, and; 2) a point feature with all collected point features.

3) A land surveyors report, not to exceed one page, will be submitted to the COR describing the methods of survey utilized for the establishment, reestablishment, or acceptance of any lost or obliterated survey monuments.

All deliverables will be provided to:

National Park Service - Interior Regions 6, 7, & 8 Regional Land Surveyor 1 Denver Federal Center, Building 50 Denver, CO 80225

III. POINTS OF CONTACT:

TO BE PROVIDED AFTER AWARD

IV. DATA AND MATERIALS PROVIDED BY NPS:

1. Field Investigation Diagrams for each project area.

2. Copies of land NPS and survey plats located in the Pima County records.

3. Current Title Commitments for the tract(s) in the project area.

4. Right to enter permission letter template for private landowners in the project area to sign and return. Contractor is responsible for contacting the adjoining private landowners only if access is required.

V. OTHER CONTRACT DETAILS:

DEFINITIONS:

Legislated boundary line as used herein references the official legislated boundary of the park unit as established by proclamation or congressional authority. Each park unit is unique in its

SOW, Boundary Survey Services Page 6 of 6 establishment. If the survey project involves any portion of a legislated boundary, a copy of the enabling legislation and boundary description or official map will be provided at the request of the contractor. Legislated boundaries may or may not follow existing property boundary lines.

Consult with NPS staff for clarification if needed.

CONFIDENTIALITY:

The information developed under this contract is the property of the U.S. Government and will remain in strict confidence unless otherwise indicated.

INSPECTION AND ACCEPTANCE:

NPS park staff will coordinate and conduct a final walk-through of the project area prior to the end date of the contract. The purpose of this walk-through is to provide park staff with a final visual inspection of the location and physical characteristics of all boundary markers found or placed as a result of this survey.

All deliverables will be provided to the technical point of contact in a draft format for review and approval prior to the end of the contract date as noted above under Performance Period and Schedule.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL FINDINGS:

NPS is responsible for all required NEPA investigations prior to survey work. If the contractor or subcontractor discovers archaeological or cultural artifacts during the course of field work, immediately contact the technical or park contact listed in Section III.

INSURANCE:

The contractor or subcontractor agrees to maintain the following insurance for the term of this contract. Certificates of insurance will be provided at the request of the government.

1. Worker’s Compensation Insurance, in the form and amounts required by statute or other applicable law.

2. General Liability Insurance with limits of $1,000,000 per occurrence.

3. Professional Liability Insurance with a limit of $1,000,000.

4. Commercial Automobile Liability Insurance with a combined single limit of $500,000.

BROOKS ACT PROHIBITION:

The services under this contract do not constitute services as defined by the Brooks Act (40 U.S.C. §§ 1101–1104). No design, engineering analysis, or architect-engineering supervision is required. Determination of boundary lines, plats, or other legal land survey functions must be performed by a licensed Professional Land Surveyor and are not to be performed by engineers or architects unless separately licensed to do so.