Q&A Heritage Survey-Wallowa Valley Fuel Break.pdf
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- Solicitation number
- S-62900-00010899
- Issued by
- Union County, Oregon
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This document is an ITB (Invitation to Bid) for GNA Heritage Surveys for the Wallowa Valley Fuel Break project in Oregon. The U.S. Forest Service and Oregon Department of Forestry are seeking a contractor to conduct cultural and archaeological heritage surveys across approximately 7,349 acres, with 3,196 acres requiring surveying, to identify and document any heritage resources. The selected contractor must comply with the National Historic Preservation Act and coordinate with the State Historic Preservation Office and Indian Tribes. Bids will be evaluated solely on the lowest responsive bid amount, calculated from the unit prices provided. The contract will be awarded on an "All or None" basis, and the agency reserves the right to withdraw any or all line items. The contractor must begin work within three weeks of contract award and complete the services by December 31, 2025.
The solicitation does not identify any incumbent vendors or current contractors, and there are no set-aside designations or restrictions on the types of organizations that can respond. The budget or award value range is also not provided in the available documentation, indicating an open competitive procurement opportunity without any predetermined small business, minority-owned, women-owned, or other preference programs.
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| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Exhibit D - WWVF1_Overview Map.pdf | ||
| GNA Heritage Surveys_Wallowa Valley Fuel Break_ITB.pdf | ||
| Exhibit D - WWVF3_West Map.pdf | ||
| Preliminary Results~82.xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
| Exhibit D - WWVF2_East Map.pdf |
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ITB S-62900-00010899 – GNA Heritage Surveys for the Wallowa Valley Fuel Break Q&A
ITB S-62900-00010899
GNA Heritage Surveys for the Wallowa Valley Fuel Break
Questions and Answers
1. In reference to the Statement of Work, Part II, 4.d. (Tasks/General Work Specifications that the Contractor will complete):
The Contractor will inspect any locations within the Project Area (7,349 acres) identified during the pre-field review of historic and ethnographic documents for potentially unrecorded cultural resources.
If additional survey areas are identified within the APE, will we be able to obtain a contract amendment for the additional survey fieldwork or will it fall under the optional task (4.i.)?
A. Required Task 3 accounts for previously recorded sites (n=11) in the Forest Service
Database for the entire 7,349-acre project area. If additional sites are identified during the pre-field review through other sources (e.g. OARRA, GLO plats, ethnographic resources, etc.), they would be counted under Optional Tasks 8 and 9 (refer to Pricing on page 18 of the ITB).
2. Will you require SHPO resource forms, USFS resource form, or both to be completed for each identified cultural resource?
A. Only USFS forms are required.
3. Please confirm: no shovel probes are planned for the contract, but they will be included separately as an optional task?
A. Page 35 of the ITB bullet point 4 describes when shovel probes should be conducted during mandatory survey. If subsurface deposits are suspected probing should be used to delineate boundaries and/or confirm status of an isolated find vs site. Shovel probing may also be conducted at locations of previously recorded sites even if surface artifacts are not visible if the depositional environment indicates potential for a subsurface component. Systematic probing at non-site locations is not part of this contract.
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