C04 Attachment 5_Est Total County Points_NRI MT.xlsx

This is an estimated county points allocation spreadsheet for the National Resources Inventory (NRI) Grazing Land Field Study Data Collection in Montana. The document lists all 56 Montana counties with their assigned estimated total points for the 2026 NRI study, with point allocations ranging from 1 to 10 points per county. Richland County has the highest allocation at 10 points, followed by Glacier and Golden Valley at 8 points each, while multiple counties including Chouteau, Deer Lodge, Flathead, Petroleum, and Ravalli are assigned only 1 point. The total estimated points across all Montana counties is 236. The spreadsheet explicitly notes that these are estimates for planning purposes only, and that actual point numbers will be determined based on permission status and other eligibility criteria as the field study progresses.

This allocation table supports the RFQ (12FPC326Q0030) issued by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency within the Department of Agriculture, for a small business set-aside contract to collect grazing land field study data across Montana. The contractor will be responsible for conducting data collection on the selected sample sites represented by these county point allocations, with a deadline for questions by July 8, 2026.