Solicitation_AG-4D90-S-17-0001_Land_Surveys_11-07-16.pdf

AG-4D90-S-17-0001

1. REQUEST NO.

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IMPORTANT: This is a request for information, and quotations furnished are not offers. If you are unable to quote, please so indicate on this form and return it to the address in Block 5a. This request does not commit the Government to pay any costs incurred in the preparation of the submission of this quotation or to contract for supplies or services. Supplies are of domestic origin unless otherwise indicated by quoter. Any representations and/or certifications attached to this Request for Quotations must be completed by the quoter.

11. SCHEDULE (Include applicable Federal, State and local taxes)

THIS RFQ

REQUEST FOR QUOTATION

(THIS IS NOT AN ORDER)

IS IS NOT A SMALL BUSINESS SET ASIDEX

11/07/2016

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USDA-NRCS CONTRACTING TEAM 4

1400 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, SW

ROOM 6801-S

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USDA NATURAL RESOURCES CONS SERVICE

101 SOUTH MAIN STREET

TEMPLE

TX 76501

614 255-2496CHANDA SOW

12/09/2016 1730 ET

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ITEM NO.

(a)

SUPPLIES/SERVICES

(b)

QUANTITY

(c)

UNIT

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UNIT PRICE

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AMOUNT

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Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract for Land Boundary Survey Services in the State of Texas. The Government anticipates multiple awards under this solicitation.

Period of Performance: 12/15/2016 to 11/30/2017

12. DISCOUNT FOR PROMPT PAYMENT

a. 10 CALENDAR DAYS (%) b. 20 CALENDAR DAYS (%) c. 30 CALENDAR DAYS (%) d. CALENDAR DAYS

NUMBER PERCENTAGE

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13. NAME AND ADDRESS OF QUOTER

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c. COUNTY

d. CITY e. STATE f. ZIP CODE

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STANDARD FORM 18 (REV. 6-95)

Prescribed by GSA - FAR (48 CFR) 53.215-1(a)

SECTION B – SERVICES AND PRICE

B.1 SCHEDULE

NRCS is seeking to establish an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract for one (1) base year and four (4) option periods. The base year of this contract will begin on/or about December 15, 2016. Listed below is the performance period for the contract. Option periods are not automatic, the Government reserves the right to not exercise the following options. If the Government desires to exercise the following options, written notification will be provided to the Contractor(s) in advance.

Base Year Date of Award – November 30, 2017

Option Year 1 December 1, 2017 – November 30, 2018

Option Year 2 December 1, 2018– November 30, 2019

Option Year 3 December 1, 2019– November 30, 2020

Option Year 4 December 1, 2020– November 30, 2021

B.2. AGAR 452.216-73 MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM CONTRACT AMOUNTS (FEB 1988)

During the period specified in FAR Clause 52.216-18, Ordering, the Government anticipates issuing task orders for a minimum of 5 services and a maximum of 25 services per year. Services are defined for this purpose as individual boundary surveys. Anticipated order minimum during the base year is $10,000, but not in excess of $500,000.

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SECTION C – PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

Natural Resources Conservation Service Easement Programs

Land Survey Specifications

A. SCOPE

A professional land surveyor, licensed or registered in the State where the land survey will be conducted, must complete all legal easement boundary surveys, including ingress and egress routes required for Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) easement programs. The work will consist of performing all surveys, measurements, computations, drawings, and descriptions required by this specification. NRCS will provide the surveyor with a deed, preliminary title search, location map and aerial photograph of the proposed easement area. The map will include the area to be surveyed, the ingress and egress routes or points of access, and any other applicable descriptive information. The surveyor must furnish plat maps, written descriptions of the easement area, suitable electronic media of the survey information, and other items as required herein.

Note: The NRCS map is only a general estimate of the proposed boundary lines. The boundary survey will reveal the landowner’s actual easement boundary lines.

B. QUALITY OF WORK

All land survey work must follow recognized professional practices and standards and meet the accuracy specifications and positional tolerances set forth in the regulations of the State where the survey will take place and the NRCS specifications defined herein. In the case of a discrepancy between the NRCS specifications and the State specific requirements, the more stringent requirements will govern. In addition, any land survey in a Public Land Survey System (PLSS) State must comply with the guidelines, directions, and procedures specified in the current Bureau of Land Management (BLM) “Manual of Surveying Instructions” (Manual), except where authorized by these Land Survey Specifications. The easement boundary and ingress and egress route description must be clear, accurate, complete, and meet NRCS’s intent and program requirements. All notes, sketches, computations, and other data must be complete, legible, and organized in a manner that will allow reproduction of paper copies.

C. PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT

All work must be performed by, or under the direct supervision of, a person licensed or registered to practice land surveying in the State where the land survey is to be conducted. Other support personnel must have the training and experience to perform the work competently. Equipment for surveys must be of the quality and condition to provide the accuracy required. Equipment must be in good condition and in proper adjustment at all times. The surveyor must keep a record of all adjustments and provide records as requested. The surveyor will select the methods and instruments to be used for field data collection and boundary location. Various survey methods such as traverse, triangulation, satellite, and inertial positioning systems may be used.

The NRCS contracting officer (CO) may, at his or her discretion, designate a COR, or a technical representative to assist in preparing, awarding, administering, inspecting, and accepting the professional land surveying services contract. This will be determined on a State-by-State basis and will be referenced in the work order.

D. NOTIFICATION OF INTENT TO SURVEY

Prior to the start of survey field work, the surveyor must conduct an onsite presurvey field visit with the landowner or landowner’s designated representative, NRCS contracting officer’s representative (COR or technical representative) and NRCS designated conservationist. During this onsite presurvey visit, the proposed easement boundaries and the ingress and egress route or points of access will be reviewed. Known encroachments and conflicting ownership areas should be avoided and excluded from the easement.

Before fieldwork for surveying begins, the surveyor must notify the NRCS representative or designated conservationist and the landowner of the date and time the boundary survey will be conducted. Notification must be a minimum of 3 business days prior to beginning work. If the work is not started on the planned date, the surveyor must notify the designated conservationist, COR, and landowner of the revised date and time that work will begin.

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E. SURVEY AREA

The area to be surveyed should be marked by wooden stakes or flags during the onsite presurvey meeting by the designated conservationist, landowner or landowner’s representative. Only boundary angle points should be staked or flagged sufficient for field verification by the surveyor, COR, and landowner.

In cases where NRCS has agreed with the landowner’s request to exclude areas from within the easement perimeter, they will be surveyed as described herein, including the requirement for access routes to each excluded area of a sufficient width for vehicular travel. All private and public roads and associated roadway easement areas will be excluded from the easement boundary area, unless otherwise specified by NRCS. The net easement area will be reported by the surveyor and computed by subtracting the excluded areas and excluded road rights-of-way from the exterior perimeter boundary area. The net easement area will be computed to the nearest hundredth of an acre.

The boundary survey must be a complete perimeter traverse of the easement area tied to at least two monumented corners of the PLSS or two monumented corners of a recorded deed.

The surveyor must inspect documents provided by NRCS and recorded documents in the county land register’s office for the purpose of retrieving deeds of record and recorded plat maps for the subject and adjoining properties.

Existing recorded easements, right-of-ways, onsite located unrecorded easements, utilities or infrastructure, and exceptions listed in the preliminary title commitment must be plotted and shown on the final plat of survey.

The surveyor must show latitude and longitude based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83) along with State Plane Coordinates (NAD 83) for—

1. The point of beginning for the easement area.

2. The point of beginning for the ingress and egress to the easement area, if applicable.

3. At least four other corners of the easement area.

All coordinate values shown will be georeferenced to the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) in compliance with BLM “Incorporating Standards for the Positional Accuracy of Cadastral Surveys When Using Global Navigation Satellite Systems,” and documented in such a manner that future surveyors can confidently replicate the position.

The easement area must not encroach on areas possessed by or subject to claims by others and must exclude any encroachments from adjoining properties. If the title line of the area to be surveyed differs from the area currently possessed or is subject to a claim by others, the differences must be shown on the plat of survey, noted in the surveyors report, and the easement area adjusted as follows:

• If the title lines fall short of the apparent lines of current possession, the easement boundary will not cross the title line.

• If the title lines cross apparent lines of current possession, the easement boundary will not cross the apparent lines as possessed.

• If title line and the adjoining property title line create an overlap or gap, the easement boundary will exclude the overlap or gap area.

Any conflicts or encroachments discovered by the surveyor in the course of the work must be reported to the NRCS COR in writing within 5 business days. The surveyor will not be required to resolve title or possession conflicts, but will be required to report facts and any professional opinions that may be relative to the conflict. The contractor must cease work in the area of conflict as directed by the NRCS COR.

Any significant (more than 10 percent) variation from the preliminary easement area estimated acres should be reported immediately to the COR and NRCS State easement program coordinator. The surveyor will not modify the easement area surveyed at the direction of the landowner or any other NRCS personnel except the designated NRCS CO or COR.

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F. BOUNDARY LINES AND MARKING

The boundary line must be marked with visible monuments and witness posts a s appropriate. The markings must be visible from one marking to the next. All signs and markers must face away from the easement area.

Monuments and witness posts must be installed by the surveyor prior to delivery of the final plat of the survey and legal description, unless otherwise specified by the NRCS CO. Monuments and witness posts must be installed at each corner, angle point, road crossing, intersection of property lines, approximately every 500 feet along the easement area boundary in open areas, and approximately every 200 feet in wooded areas. Property lines lying within wooded areas less than 100 feet wide (e.g., fence rows) with open agricultural or undeveloped land on either side will not be subject to wooded area standards. Monuments and witness posts must not be placed in the flow line of drainage ditches.

All monuments must be thoroughly described and specifically identified as set or found, whenever shown on maps or referred to in documents prepared by the surveyor. Descriptions of monuments must be sufficiently detailed to readily facilitate future recovery by other surveyors and to enable positive identification.

All monuments will be a minimum of 5/8-inch diameter solid steel and a minimum of 24 inches long. Monument caps (approved by NRCS) must be placed on each monument. In open areas, the monument must be driven just below the ground surface. In wooded areas, monuments will not be driven below the ground surface. If there is a reason that such a monument cannot be established, the reason for a deviation from the NRCS specifications must be noted on the face of the plat of survey.

The surveyor must provide witness posts. Witness posts must be steel “U” channel posts at least 78 inches in length and have a minimum weight of 2 lbs. per foot. Posts must be of a natural color, preferably green with the top 1 foot section painted purple to signify No Trespassing. Channel posts must have holes that are properly spaced and sized to allow for the attachment of easement signs. NRCS will be responsible for attaching easement signs upon the completion of the boundary survey and installation of the witness posts.

If the proposed easement boundary is along a river, creek, bayou, lake, drainage ditch, or other water body, the easement boundary to be surveyed will be determined on a case-by-case basis after onsite clarification with the NRCS COR or technical representative and landowner and in compliance with appropriate State law on water boundaries. In States where acquisition of riparian rights is necessary to obtain water rights, the easement boundary should follow the riparian boundary.

An offset witness corner is required on each boundary line intersecting a river, creek, bayou, lake, drainage ditch, or other water body boundary and for angle points that lie within the water boundary. The witness corner must be monumented to provide a visual marker on the ground for use in maintaining the boundary integrity. Witness corner locations will be as close to the actual corner as practicable considering factors such as visibility, potential stream bank changes, encroachment, and recreational use in the area. Witness corner locations with bearings and distances to the actual corners must be clearly documented on the survey plat of the easement area and cited in the conservation easement boundary description.

G. INGRESS AND EGRESS ROUTE (if applicable) The land description will include a delineated route of ingress and egress to and from the easement area. The ingress and egress route to the easement area will be described in the survey, shown on the survey plat, and recorded with the easement deed. The surveyor must tie the ingress and egress route to the easement boundary and to a designated public road.

Monuments must be set at the points where the ingress and egress route intersects the easement boundary.

H. SURVEY DATA

All survey data obtained by the surveyor must be recorded and maintained in accordance with State standards of practice.

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I. INSPECTION OF WORK

The NRCS CO, COR, technical representative or designated conservationist may make periodic inspections of any phase of the work as it progresses. The surveyor must, without charge, make available for inspection, originals or copies of such items as field notes, working plats and drawings, material obtained through research, computation sheets, computer printouts, correspondence to and from adjoining landowners, and any other item deemed necessary to ensure contract compliance and to verify accomplishments.

J. PRELIMINARY SURVEY REVIEW and FINAL SURVEY SUBMITTALS Preliminary Survey Submittal: Prior to submittal of final, hardcopy documents, the surveyor must notify the NRCS CO, COR, or technical representative that the field work has been completed and must submit unsigned electronic files of the draft survey, easement legal descriptions, ingress and egress route descriptions (.pdf); the computer generated tabulation of bearings; and the draft surveyor’s report. These documents must be of sufficient detail for the field review by the landowner and NRCS to verify that the monuments and witness posts were installed as required and to verify that the area surveyed represents the easement area to be conveyed. These files will be sent to the NRCS CO, COR, or NRCS technical representative as determined by the work order.

The NRCS CO, COR, or technical representative will review the preliminary survey documents based on the NRCS land survey specifications requirements and notify the surveyor of any initial revisions or modifications required.

Upon receipt of acceptable preliminary survey submittals, the NRCS CO, COR, technical representative, or designated conservationist will meet with the landowner in the field to verify that the area surveyed represents the easement area to be conveyed. NRCS and the landowner must document the onsite review and NRCS will notify the surveyor of any further revisions or modifications required.

In the case of a discrepancy between the lines as surveyed and marked and the area the landowner and NRCS intend to be conveyed, the surveyor may be required to meet with NRCS and the landowner to reconcile the discrepancy.

After the preliminary survey materials are determined acceptable and the onsite field review by NRCS and the landowner has been completed and documented in the “Easement Boundary Survey Field Review Memorandum to the File,” the NRCS CO, COR, or technical reviewer will instruct the surveyor to provide final submittals.

Final Survey Submittal: The survey plat must, at minimum, include the following items:

1. The surveyor’s seal affixed to the survey plat, signed and dated by the surveyor.

2. Latitude and longitude and State plane coordinates (NAD 83) for the point of beginning and other specified points.

3. Location map inset showing easement area, major roads, and nearest municipality.

4. The record description of the property or the reference to the source of the recorded description of the property on which the easement is located.

5. The survey description of the easement area as Exhibit A to the survey.

6. The survey description of the route of ingress and egress routes to the subject property as Exhibit B to the survey and shown on the survey plat. If easement is adjacent to a right-of-way maintained for public and there is no ingress and egress easement route, the point of access from a public right-of-way to the easement area must be shown.

7. North arrow. Convergence angle between grid north and the true meridian as defined by the axis of the earth’s rotation shall be shown.

8. Graphic scale.

9. The point of beginning of the easement boundary and the point of beginning of the ingress and egress easement route, if applicable, must be clearly identified and noted as such.

If the point of commencement differs from the point of beginning it must be clearly identified and noted.

10. The surveyor must identify all lines on the plat of survey by line type or note. The surveyor must indicate and cite the source of all lines copied from previous surveys, copied from tax maps, or plotted from deeds.

11. Label adjoining properties listing landowner, recording information and property assessor

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12.Show and label State, county and municipal boundaries that impact the easement area or ingress and egress routes.

13. The direction of courses, shown in bearings to whole seconds of arc, and the distances to hundredths of feet for all courses, course tables may be used on the survey plat. All data will be referenced to the appropriate State Plane Coordinate System, referenced to the NSRS U.S. Survey Foot, and basis of bearing to grid north of the appropriate State plane coordinate system.

14. The central angles, length of curves, radii, and the length and bearing of the long chords from the point of curvatures to the point of tangencies for each curve along the boundary line.

Note: In addition, curves should be noted on the survey plat as either simple curves, compound curves, or spiral curves (also note if they are railroad or highway curves) curve tables may be used on the survey plat.

15. Scale factor and geoid used for State plane coordinate values with note stating what portion of the survey was performed using GPS equipment, the precision of work in relative positional accuracy, and how GPS data was determined.

• Type of GPS equipment used (model number, manufacturer, and type of frequency)

• Type of GPS survey preformed (static, RTK, adjusted RTK, etc.)

16. Monuments identified as set or found, along with a description of the monument.

17. Area of the surveyed easement.

18. Observed evidence of possession or occupation and use by others on the subject parcel or across any boundary lines of the subject property.

19. Major topographical features shown such as highways, roads, field roads, railroads, trails, streams, creeks, and rivers that cross the property line.

20.Recorded encumbrances, rights of way and other easements as listed in the preliminary title commitment or found when researching deeds for the subject or adjoining properties.

21.Observed and field located evidence of any easements, utilities, or infrastructure not addressed in 19 and 20 above.

22. Sufficient data, diagrams, maps, and survey ties to corners to indicate that the location of the boundaries and corners of the property were correctly surveyed and located, including diagrams to show that the PLSS section or sections were properly surveyed and subdivided to locate PLSS aliquot parts and PLSS lots.

23. Name, registration number, address, and phone number of the professional land surveyor in responsible charge of the survey.

24. Client name.

25. Date survey was completed.

26. Title block in lower right hand corner of plat to include NRCS easement agreement name and number with number in the following format: 54-XXXX-XX-XXXXX. The total acres in the easement must also be shown in this title block.

27. Certification. The following statement must be included on each survey plat:

“THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THIS SURVEY, DONE BY THE UNDERSIGNED, WAS

DONE ON THE GROUND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MOST RECENT MINIMUM

STANDARDS FOR PROPERTY BOUNDARY SURVEYS AS SET FORTH BY THE [insert name of State agency responsible for licensing surveyors]. THE ACCURACY AND

POSITION TOLERANCE ARE ALSO IN ACCORDANCE WITH RURAL SURVEYS AND

HAS BEEN MADE IN STRICT CONFORMITY WITH THE NATURAL RESOURCES

CONSERVATION SERVICE EASEMENT PROGRAMS LAND SURVEY SPECIFICATIONS.

28. The plat and description will be titled “Plat or Description of NRCS Conservation Easement, NRCS Agreement Number: on lands of (landowner name) prepared for USDA-Natural Resources

Conservation Service.”

K. DELIVERABLES

The surveyor must provide the following to the NRCS CO, COR, or technical representative by the date stated in the task order:

1. Five original completed survey plat (24 inches by 36 inches) with required seal and signature. The surveyor will be responsible for ascertaining any special or particular requirements of the register of deeds in the county where the survey area is located as to the size of plat map required for recording and furnishing plat maps of proper size for recording. Where multiple sheets are produced also produce an index sheet showing entire survey area. Lettering must be of sufficient size that it will remain legible after plat is reduced to the size required for recording.

2. Five reduced (11- by 17-inch), signed copies of the survey plat.

3. Five printed copies of the legal land descriptions of the easement area and ingress and egress routes depicted on the surveyor’s survey plat. The following must be included in the legal description (as Exhibit A and B to the survey plat) of the property:

• A clear statement of the relationship between the described property and the survey control or the basis of the unique location

• The basis of bearings

• Metes and bounds descriptions that include bearings or azimuths and distances related to the horizontal measurement at the mean ground elevation for the line above sea level to allow for computation and mathematical closure and acreage

• Citations to the recording information or other identifying documentation for any maps, plats, or other documents referenced

• Detailed description of any natural or artificial monuments referenced

• Total acreage in easement area

• NRCS easement name and agreement number in the title

4. Five copies of a computer-generated tabulation of bearings, distances, and coordinates around the easement area, with a closure statement indicating the cited bearings and distances meeting acceptable State standards for survey closure accuracies and the area of the easement.

Note: The survey plat, legal description, and tabulation demonstrating acceptable survey closure must all consistently traverse the perimeter of the easement area and ingress and egress routes in the same direction and with the same starting and ending points.

5. In PLSS States, legible copies of the most recent and current GLO/BLM original survey plat and original field notes, or the GLO/BLM resurvey plat and field notes for the surveyed sections in which the easement area is located.

Note: Copies of the survey plats and notes need only include the full sections in which the easement area is located; in the metes and bounds States, copies of the original source documents creating the subject parcel in which the easement area is located are acceptable.

6. The surveyor must provide a surveyor’s report containing a narrative description of method used to locate points and theory of location applied in formulating the opinions as to the probable location of the boundaries and corners of the property.

7. Compact disk containing an electronic copy of the following (all files must reference NRCS agreement number):

• AutoCAD, version 2009 file of the survey. The .dwg file will be georeferenced to the appropriate State

Plane Coordinate System, referenced to the NSRS U.S. Survey Foot, and basis of bearing to grid north of the appropriate state plane coordinate system. The perimeter of the easement area and the ingress and egress routes should be attributed as a separate and extractable polyline layer or polygon feature component of the drawing for conversion to a Geographic Information System (GIS) Documentation

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• Separate polygon shape files of the easement area and ingress and egress route with all points projected into the appropriate State plane coordinate system in a (.shp, .dbf or .shx) format.

• Each polygon should contain the following attributes:

• NRCS agreement number: 54-XXXX-XX-XXXXX

• Easement acres (value to the hundredth of an acre)

• The method of data capture

• Each polygon should have the following metadata:

• Date generated

• Software and version used to generate file

• Brief description of process used to generate files

• Provide ESRI ArcGIS Info shapefile (.shp, .dbf, .shx) or geodatabase (.gdb)

• Projection must be clearly defined.

• PDF file of the final signed survey plat. Where there are multiple sheets, a single pdf combining all sheets. PDF files of items (K)(3) and (K)(4).

• MS Word or text document containing the easement boundary descriptions and descriptions of the ingress and egress route if applicable.

8. When the final survey is complete and the final submittals have been presented for review, the NRCS CO, COR, technical representative, or designated conservationist will certify that the work has been completed according to the NRCS land survey specifications.

L. CONFLICT OF INTEREST

A surveyor must not survey a NRCS easement property for him or herself, spouse, children, partners, or business associates, and must not have a financial interest in the property to be covered by the proposed NRCS easement.

M. NONDISCLOSURE

Work performance required by this specification will involve access to potentially sensitive information about governmental and landowner issues. All survey contractor personnel must comply with the terms of AGAR 452.224- 70, “Confidentiality of Information,” as well as provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C Section 552a.

Additionally, the survey contractor’s employees must comply with the rules governing the privacy of personal information relating to NRCS Programs, in accordance with section 1244 of title II of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Public Law 1078-171).

N. CIVIL RIGHTS AND PROGRAM DELIVERY

The survey contractor will ensure that personnel prohibit discrimination in all aspects of programs and activities related to the contract on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, or marital or family status.

SECTIONS D, E – RESERVED

SECTION F – DELIVERIES OR PERFORMANCE

F.1. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The period of performance shall commence on or around December 15, 2016. The effective period of this contract is one (1) base year and four (4) potential option years. Option years are not automatic and will be exercised at the Government’s discretion.

F.2. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

The land survey areas are located within the State of Texas. Requests for services may be within any county or area within the State’s boundaries. Exact project/services locations will be identified with the issuance of individual Task Orders.

SECTION G - CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION DATA

G.1. The CONTRACTING OFFICER (CO) designated for this requirement is:

Name: Chanda Sow Address: Contracting Services Branch – Team 4 200 North High Street, Room 522 Columbus, Ohio 43215-2418 Phone: (614) 255-2496 Email: Chanda.Sow@wdc.usda.gov

Contract administration will be performed by the Contracting Officer. In no event shall any understanding, agreement, modification, change order or other matter deviating from the terms of the contract be effective or binding upon the Government unless formalized by proper contractual documents executed by the Contracting Officer.

G.2. The CONTRACTING OFFICER'S TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE (COTR) is:

Name: Michael Woody Title: Civil Engineering Technician Address: 6598 FM 2782 Nacogdoches, TX 75964 Phone: (936) 564-4873 Email: Michael.Woody@tx.usda.gov

The COTR will monitor all technical aspects and assist in administering the contract. After contract award, the COTR designation letter will be provided to the Contractor which clarifies the COTR’s responsibilities. When the COTR requests effort outside the scope of the contract, the Contractor shall so advise the Contracting Officer in writing.

SECTION H – RESERVED

SECTION I – CONTRACT CLAUSES

I.1. 52.216-18 Ordering (OCT 1995)

(a) Any supplies and services to be furnished under this contract shall be ordered by issuance of delivery orders or task orders by the individuals or activities designated in the Schedule. Such orders may be issued from 12/15/2016 through 11/30/2017.

(b) All delivery orders or task orders are subject to the terms and conditions of this contract. In the event of conflict between a delivery order or task order and this contract, the contract shall control.

(c) If mailed, a delivery order or task order is considered “issued” when the Government deposits the order in the mail. Orders may be issued orally, by facsimile, or by electronic commerce methods only if authorized in the Schedule.

I.2. 52.216-19 Order Limitations (OCT 1995)

(a) Minimum order. When the Government requires supplies or services covered by this contract in an amount of less than $ 3,500, the Government is not obligated to purchase, nor is the Contractor obligated to furnish, those supplies or services under the contract.

(b) Maximum order. The Contractor is not obligated to honor—

(1) Any order for a single item in excess of $50,000.

(2) Any order for a combination of items in excess of $150,000; or

(3) A series of orders from the same ordering office within five days that together call for quantities exceeding the limitation in paragraph (b)(1) or (2) of this section.

(c) If this is a requirements contract (i.e., includes the Requirements clause at subsection 52.216-21 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)), the Government is not required to order a part of any one requirement from the Contractor if that requirement exceeds the maximum-order limitations in paragraph (b) of this section.

(d) Notwithstanding paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, the Contractor shall honor any order exceeding the maximum order limitations in paragraph (b), unless that order (or orders) is returned to the ordering office within 10 days after issuance, with written notice stating the Contractor’s intent not to ship the item (or items) called for and the reasons. Upon receiving this notice, the Government may acquire the supplies or services from another source.

I.3. 52.216-22 Indefinite Quantity (OCT 1995)

(a) This is an indefinite-quantity contract for the supplies or services specified, and effective for the period stated, in the Schedule. The quantities of supplies and services specified in the Schedule are estimates only and are not purchased by this contract.

(b) Delivery or performance shall be made only as authorized by orders issued in accordance with the Ordering clause. The Contractor shall furnish to the Government, when and if ordered, the supplies or services specified in the Schedule up to and including the quantity designated in the Schedule as the “maximum.” The Government shall order at least the quantity of supplies or services designated in the Schedule as the “minimum.”

(c) Except for any limitations on quantities in the Order Limitations clause or in the Schedule, there is no limit on the number of orders that may be issued. The Government may issue orders requiring delivery to multiple destinations or performance at multiple locations.

(d) Any order issued during the effective period of this contract and not completed within that period shall be completed by the Contractor within the time specified in the order. The contract shall govern the Contractor’s and Government’s rights and obligations with respect to that order to the same extent as if the order were completed during the contract’s effective period; provided, that the Contractor shall not be required to make any deliveries under this contract after November 30, 2017.

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I.4. 52.216-27 Single or Multiple Awards (OCT 1995) The Government may elect to award a single delivery order contract or task order contract or to award multiple delivery order contracts or task order contracts for the same or similar supplies or services to two or more sources under this solicitation.

I.5. 52.217-8 Option to Extend Services (NOV 1999) The Government may require continued performance of any services within the limits and at the rates specified in the contract. These rates may be adjusted only as a result of revisions to prevailing labor rates provided by the Secretary of Labor. The option provision may be exercised more than once, but the total extension of performance hereunder shall not exceed 6 months. The Contracting Officer may exercise the option by written notice to the Contractor within 30 days.

I.6. 52.217-9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract. (MAR 2000)

(a) The Government may extend the term of this contract by written notice to the Contractor within 30 days;

provided that the Government gives the Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least 60 days before the contract expires. The preliminary notice does not commit the Government to an extension.

(b) If the Government exercises this option, the extended contract shall be considered to include this option clause.

(c) The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed 3 years, 6 months.

I.7 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards

(a) Definitions. As used in this clause— “Contractor,” when this clause is used in any subcontract, shall be deemed to refer to the subcontractor, except in the term “Government Prime Contractor.”

“Service employee” means any person engaged in the performance of this contract other than any person employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity, as these terms are defined in Part 541 of Title 29, Code of Federal Regulations, as revised. It includes all such persons regardless of any contractual relationship that may be alleged to exist between a Contractor or subcontractor and such persons.

(b) Applicability. This contract is subject to the following provisions and to all other applicable provisions of 41 U.S.C. chapter 67, Service Contract Labor Standards, and regulations of the Secretary of Labor (29 CFR Part 4).

This clause does not apply to contracts or subcontracts administratively exempted by the Secretary of Labor or exempted by 41 U.S.C. 6702, as interpreted in Subpart C of 29 CFR Part 4.

(c) Compensation.

(1) Each service employee employed in the performance of this contract by the Contractor or any subcontractor shall be paid not less than the minimum monetary wages and shall be furnished fringe benefits in accordance with the wages and fringe benefits determined by the Secretary of Labor, or authorized representative, as specified in any wage determination attached to this contract.

(2)(i) If a wage determination is attached to this contract, the Contractor shall classify any class of service employee which is not listed therein and which is to be employed under the contract (i.e., the work to be performed is not performed by any classification listed in the wage determination) so as to provide a reasonable relationship (i.e., appropriate level of skill comparison) between such unlisted classifications and the classifications listed in the wage determination. Such conformed class of employees shall be paid the monetary wages and furnished the fringe benefits as are determined pursuant to the procedures in this paragraph (c).

(ii) This conforming procedure shall be initiated by the Contractor prior to the performance of contract work by the unlisted class of employee. The Contractor shall submit Standard Form (SF) 1444, Request For Authorization of Additional Classification and Rate, to the Contracting Officer no later than 30 days after the unlisted class of employee performs any contract work. The Contracting Officer shall review the proposed classification and rate and promptly submit the completed SF 1444 (which must include information regarding the agreement or disagreement of the employees’ authorized representatives or the employees themselves together with the agency recommendation), and all pertinent information to the Wage and Hour Division, Employment Standards

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Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. The Wage and Hour Division will approve, modify, or disapprove the action or render a final determination in the event of disagreement within 30 days of receipt or will notify the Contracting Officer within 30 days of receipt that additional time is necessary.

(iii) The final determination of the conformance action by the Wage and Hour Division shall be transmitted to the Contracting Officer who shall promptly notify the Contractor of the action taken. Each affected employee shall be furnished by the Contractor with a written copy of such determination or it shall be posted as a part of the wage determination.

(iv)(A) The process of establishing wage and fringe benefit rates that bear a reasonable relationship to those listed in a wage determination cannot be reduced to any single formula. The approach used may vary from wage determination to wage determination depending on the circumstances. Standard wage and salary administration practices which rank various job classifications by pay grade pursuant to point schemes or other job factors may, for example, be relied upon. Guidance may also be obtained from the way different jobs are rated under Federal pay systems (Federal Wage Board Pay System and the General Schedule) or from other wage determinations issued in the same locality. Basic to the establishment of any conformable wage rate(s) is the concept that a pay relationship should be maintained between job classifications based on the skill required and the duties performed.

(B) In the case of a contract modification, an exercise of an option, or extension of an existing contract, or in any other case where a Contractor succeeds a contract under which the classification in question was previously conformed pursuant to paragraph (c) of this clause, a new conformed wage rate and fringe benefits may be assigned to the conformed classification by indexing (i.e., adjusting) the previous conformed rate and fringe benefits by an amount equal to the average (mean) percentage increase (or decrease, where appropriate) between the wages and fringe benefits specified for all classifications to be used on the contract which are listed in the current wage determination, and those specified for the corresponding classifications in the previously applicable wage determination. Where conforming actions are accomplished in accordance with this paragraph prior to the performance of contract work by the unlisted class of employees, the Contractor shall advise the Contracting Officer of the action taken but the other procedures in subdivision (c)(2)(ii) of this clause need not be followed.

(C) No employee engaged in performing work on this contract shall in any event be paid less than the currently applicable minimum wage specified under section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended.

(v) The wage rate and fringe benefits finally determined under this paragraph (c)(2) of this clause shall be paid to all employees performing in the classification from the first day on which contract work is performed by them in the classification. Failure to pay the unlisted employees the compensation agreed upon by the interested parties and/or finally determined by the Wage and Hour Division retroactive to the date such class of employees commenced contract work shall be a violation of the Service Contract Labor Standards statute and this contract.

(vi) Upon discovery of failure to comply with paragraph (c)(2) of this clause, the Wage and Hour Division shall make a final determination of conformed classification, wage rate, and/or fringe benefits which shall be retroactive to the date such class or classes of employees commenced contract work.

(3) Adjustment of compensation. If the term of this contract is more than 1 year, the minimum monetary wages and fringe benefits required to be paid or furnished thereunder to service employees under this contract shall be subject to adjustment after 1 year and not less often than once every 2 years, under wage determinations issued by the Wage and Hour Division.

(d) Obligation to furnish fringe benefits. The Contractor or subcontractor may discharge the obligation to furnish fringe benefits specified in the attachment or determined under paragraph (c)(2) of this clause by furnishing equivalent combinations of bona fide fringe benefits, or by making equivalent or differential cash payments, only in accordance with Subpart D of 29 CFR Part 4.

(e) Minimum wage. In the absence of a minimum wage attachment for this contract, neither the Contractor nor any subcontractor under this contract shall pay any person performing work under this contract (regardless of whether the person is a service employee) less than the minimum wage specified by section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Nothing in this clause shall relieve the Contractor or any subcontractor of any other obligation under law or contract for payment of a higher wage to any employee.

(f) Successor contracts. If this contract succeeds a contract subject to the Service Contract Labor Standards statute under which substantially the same services were furnished in the same locality and service employees were paid wages and fringe benefits provided for in a collective bargaining agreement, in the absence of the minimum wage

AG-4D90-S-17-0001 Land Surveys attachment for this contract setting forth such collectively bargained wage rates and fringe benefits, neither the Contractor nor any subcontractor under this contract shall pay any service employee performing any of the contract work (regardless of whether or not such employee was employed under the predecessor contract), less than the wages and fringe benefits provided for in such collective bargaining agreement, to which such employee would have been entitled if employed under the predecessor contract, including accrued wages and fringe benefits and any prospective increases in wages and fringe benefits provided for under such agreement. No Contractor or subcontractor under this contract may be relieved of the foregoing obligation unless the limitations of 29 CFR 4.1b(b) apply or unless the Secretary of Labor or the Secretary’s authorized representative finds, after a hearing as provided in 29 CFR 4.10 that the wages and/or fringe benefits provided for in such agreement are substantially at variance with those which prevail for services of a character similar in the locality, or determines, as provided in 29 CFR 4.11, that the collective bargaining agreement applicable to service employees employed under the predecessor contract was not entered into as a result of arm’s length negotiations. Where it is found in accordance with the review procedures provided in 29 CFR 4.10 and/or 4.11 and Parts 6 and 8 that some or all of the wages and/or fringe benefits contained in a predecessor Contractor’s collective bargaining agreement are substantially at variance with those which prevail for services of a character similar in the locality, and/or that the collective bargaining agreement applicable to service employees employed under the predecessor contract was not entered into as a result of arm’s length negotiations, the Department will issue a new or revised wage determination setting forth the applicable wage rates and fringe benefits. Such determination shall be made part of the contract or subcontract, in accordance with the decision of the Administrator, the Administrative Law Judge, or the Administrative Review Board, as the case may be, irrespective of whether such issuance occurs prior to or after the award of a contract or subcontract (53 Comp. Gen. 401 (1973)). In the case of a wage determination issued solely as a result of a finding of substantial variance, such determination shall be effective as of the date of the final administrative decision.

(g) Notification to employees. The Contractor and any subcontractor under this contract shall notify each service employee commencing work on this contract of the minimum monetary wage and any fringe benefits required to be paid pursuant to this contract, or shall post the wage determination attached to this contract. The poster provided by the Department of Labor (Publication WH 1313) shall be posted in a prominent and accessible place at the worksite.

Failure to comply with this requirement is a violation of 41 U.S.C. 6703 and of this contract.

(h) Safe and sanitary working conditions. The Contractor or subcontractor shall not permit any part of the services called for by this contract to be performed in buildings or surroundings or under working conditions provided by or under the control or supervision of the Contractor or subcontractor which are unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to the health or safety of the service employees. The Contractor or subcontractor shall comply with the safety and health standards applied under 29 CFR Part 1925.

(i) Records.

(1) The Contractor and each subcontractor performing work subject to the Service Contract Labor Standards statute shall make and maintain for 3 years from the completion of the work, and make them available for inspection and transcription by authorized representatives of the Wage and Hour Division, Employment Standards Administration, a record of the following:

(i) For each employee subject to the Service Contract Labor Standards statute—

(A) Name and address and social security number;

(B) Correct work classification or classifications, rate or rates of monetary wages paid and fringe benefits provided, rate or rates of payments in lieu of fringe benefits, and total daily and weekly compensation;

(C) Daily and weekly hours worked by each employee; and

(D) Any deductions, rebates, or refunds from the total daily or weekly compensation of each employee.

(ii) For those classes of service employees not included in any wage determination attached to this contract, wage rates or…