Document Summary

This is a Task Assignment Notification Form under DEP Contract PL317, a Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) indefinite delivery vehicle for appraisal review services. The contract involves the Department of Environmental Protection's Division of State Lands (client and acquiring agency), Richards Appraisal Service, Inc. (contractor), and the property owner Crews Groves, Inc., located in Hardee and Polk Counties, Florida. The task assignment pertains to appraisal review services for the Old Town Creek Watershed project, a potential conservation easement acquisition on property located at 2018 Old Town Creek Road, Avon Park, Florida 33826.

The fixed-price task cost is $2,730.00 for a technical review and appraisal review report of a draft appraisal for the subject property comprising 6,071 acres (3,826 uplands and 2,245 wetlands). The contractor must deliver a draft appraisal review document within 14 days of receiving the work to be reviewed and submit a final Appraisal Review Report with a recommendation regarding acceptance or rejection within 21 days. The work is funded through Florida Forever (Project FF10020), with funding allocated under state accounting code 37102234801437100400000841081. The project completion date is contingent upon transmittal of an approved appraisal review report. The assignment was executed on February 21, 2017, with all required authorizations from DEP management and funding authorities.