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Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Branch of Cadastral Survey, Wyoming LLWY926000 2022 Cadastral Resource Assistant Internship Program

STATEMENT OF WORK

BACKGROUND:

The target participants for the program are current collegiate students and recent graduates, with attention given to full representation of diverse participants from schools with diverse student populations.

It is recommended that the contractor target individuals from the following degree programs: Geology, Geography, Cartography, Natural Resources, Surveying, Engineering, and Geomatics.

See Attachment 2 for Career fields necessary to the effective management of public lands and resources.

Familiarity with the public land survey system (PLSS), GIS, orienteering and surveying are desirable skills but not required, candidates will receive intensive training in all aspects of Cadastral field survey.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVE:

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Branch of Cadastral Survey, Wyoming will have complete oversight of the Cadastral Resource Assistant Internship Program. The internship will be a minimum of eleven weeks of continuous full-time (40 hours per week) maximum of twenty weeks work on Cadastral field survey in the state of Wyoming.

INTERN JOB TITLE AND EQUIVALENT BLM OCCUPATIONAL SERIES:

Cartographic Technician

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE:

Base year with option of four option years.

This will result in one award, contractor to provide up to two resource assistant interns.

Student Intern Eligibility Requirements:

1. Must be at least 18 years of age.

2. Student is currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at an accredited college or university. Undergraduate is defined as an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree program.

3. Student is a recent graduate from an undergraduate or graduate degree program at an accredited college or university.

4. A valid state issued driver’s license is required to perform the duties of the internship.

5. Intern must be 1. a United States citizen or 2. foreign national eligible to work without limitation in the United States with an active application for United States citizenship.

Minimal Job Specific Requirements: Interns must be able to:

1) hike in flat to moderately steep to steep terrain with survey equipment. Intern will also be required to operate 4WD vehicles (trucks and UTV’s) after initial training.

2) read/analyze historical data to develop logical search areas in the field and describe recovered evidence.

3) generate and manage digital data.

PROJECT DELIVERABLES:

Contractor is expected to:

Task 1 Program Design Develop a recruitment strategic plan for the project in FY 2022 with an agreed timeline in recruiting for internship positions. Schedule will be discussed once awarded.

Develop marketing materials in support of the recruiting strategy.

All marketing materials must be pre-approved by BLM Branch of Cadastral Survey, Wyoming Make program design suggestions based on experience with other internship programs as well as external research and best practices within two weeks of award of contract.

Task 2 Recruitment This is a local contract with no DHA authority.

Post the Project Proposal on Contractor’s website, college websites, and university websites.

The project proposal posting should be completed and fully functional within seven calendar days of the Contractors receipt of the project proposal. The URL link to the job posting should remain the same for the fiscal year.

Accept applications from candidates, conduct initial screening (review applications for diversity, completeness, and eligibility), and forward applications as a package to the BLM Branch of Cadastral Survey, Wyoming for review and approval.

During the initial screening Contractor should review student applications to ensure each student meets eligibility requirements and the minimal job specific requirements. Student applications must include a cover letter, resume, and transcripts.

Task 3 Management Collect and maintain interns’ applications and contact information (personnel and demographic data) in a centralized database using shared folders on a shared drive that is easily accessible to the BLM Branch of Cadastral Survey Project Coordinator.

Administer and disburse payroll and any other required expenses and living allowances such as housing, metro cards, and mileage to interns participating in the program. Maintain pertinent financial and personnel records on interns selected.

Coordinate with Interns the completion of all onboarding paperwork as required by the BLM. Contractor shall ensure all paperwork is accurate and complete prior to submission to BLM Branch of Cadastral Survey, Wyoming.

Coordinate logistics for all necessary travel for the intern to include travel arrangements to and from duty station and any other additional travel or training required during the internship period.

Rock Springs Intern: local travel only.

Worland Intern: local travel and temporary duty (overnight) travel may be necessary. Average travel per field season is 32 days, 24 nights.

Interns will be required to drive government provided vehicles during their internship. It is the responsibility of the Contractor to ensure appropriate accident liability insurance coverage is in place.

Contractor shall pay for housing in full.

Note:

Either the Chief Cadastral Surveyor or local project coordinator/land surveyor will coordinate with the vendor to find suitable intern housing.

Other surveys can be assigned and prioritized at any time during the internship period by the Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Wyoming, WYSO, Cheyenne to meet emergency requests, but the essential duties, nature of the work, methodology and weekly project goals will be identical.

The Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Wyoming, also reserves the right to station interns in one of three other field stations in the state to meet staffing shortfalls. Either the Chief Cadastral Surveyor or local project coordinator/land surveyor will coordinate with the vendor to find intern housing.

Contractor can only dismiss an intern upon consultation with the BLM Cadastral Survey and Contract Officer.

GOVERNMENT PROVIDED EQUIPMENT:

Basic office amenities provided for the interns:

Workstation/Desk/Chair Computer or Laptop Network or local Printer Internet Access Phone Line/Voicemail Access Comments:

Each intern will have their own cubicle with an assigned federal computer.

The Project Coordinator or designated alternate will be available to work with the intern(s) for the full period of the internship. In the unlikely event that the directing land surveyor (project coordinator) should be unavailable, the Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Wyoming would assume the duties of the project coordinator and assign another land surveyor to supervise the interns.

Proposed projects must be vetted and approved by Office/State/Center Senior Leadership and the Servicing Personnel Office. Please list Senior Leader and HR that approved the project.

Name of Approving Official/Title of Approving Official:

Provided once award is issued.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIMELINE:

Goal is to award contract within 2 weeks of announcement closure. Pre-work conference with contractor will be scheduled one week after contract is awarded.

Contractor recruits interns, giving full consideration to diversity, and match students to the project 2 weeks after award.

After recruitment and matching is complete:

Contractor submits resumes to the WYSO contract team. The Cadastral Survey Project Coordinator/Project Inspector evaluates resumes (interviews optional) and selects up to ten (10) interns, ranked. The contracting Officer (CO) will direct Contractor to offer the position(s) to selected interns.

Contractor sends offers to selected interns in order of ranking by project coordinator. Intern has 72 hours to accept or decline offer. First intern(s) to accept is the selection. If five declinations, five more will be submitted to the contractor, ranked.

Student interns submit onboarding paperwork to Contractor. Contractor audits paperwork for completeness and accuracy, and submits to BLM Branch of Cadastral Survey, Wyoming. Student then completes eQIP questionnaire, schedules a fingerprint appointment, and BLM conducts background check. BLM Branch of Cadastral Survey, Wyoming will coordinate with Contractor, Human Resources, project coordinator, and student interns to initiate pre-employment screening.

Begin summer internship. Alternate start date may be negotiated.

Target End summer internship negotiate any extension to the minimum.

Student intern performance evaluations will be completed by the project coordinator. BLM Cadastral Survey, Wyoming will share these with the Contractor (if requested).

2-4 weeks after internship ends - Contractor will schedule meeting with BLM Branch of Cadastral Survey, Wyoming for post internship evaluation/lessons learned report out.

INTERNSHIP EXPECTATIONS AND TIMELINE:

Training - 1) elements of the DOI BLM New Employee Safety Orientation Checklist: i.e. wilderness first aid/CPR, defensive driving, accident reporting, bear awareness, etc...; 2) operation & maintenance of vehicles, UTV’s, and UTV trailers, truck reports; 3) general overview of the U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS) and briefing on job duties, expectations and ongoing projects overview 4) required memorization of critical portions of the Table of Land Measurements.

Cadastral field survey: deliverable will be ongoing training per Project Description detailed in attachment 1 (specific proficiencies required are also detailed in this narrative). Initial focus will be to train the interns to set up the base receiver, measure (and check) the antenna height and do an independent initialization check on a corner point with known coordinates and make precise measurements to survey monuments. Depending on the state of completion of the project, the intern will assist in monumentation of corners by both marking and setting monuments, and correctly describing them in a field book, paper or electronically.

Field Survey, continue training in all of the elements covered in week 2, + initial training in more advanced topics – evidence, corner point identification and elements of corner description.

Field Survey, continue training in all of the elements covered in weeks 2 and 3, write corner descriptions and compute the geodetically correct position of corners using available software packages, navigate to the position of the monument using resource grade GPS and then measure the point with survey grade GPS equipment. Interns will begin downloading field measurements from the data logger to Trimble Business Center, export the daily work to the Cadastral Measurement Management System (CMM), and/or Civil 3D with Cadastral Automated Plat Drafting (CAPD) and begin computing logical search areas utilizing official survey record. At any point during weeks 4-11, the interns will be trained to research private and public survey record and abstract same by collecting, organizing and evaluating public and private survey corner records, General Land Office field notes and plats.

Field Survey, continue training in all of the elements covered in weeks 1-4, and begin to operate semi-autonomously of the land surveyor.

Intern will begin preparing a presentation on skills attained (deliverables) for the Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Wyoming and the Cadastral Survey Project Coordinator.

Field Survey - assigned projects with the land surveyor, continue training in all specific proficiencies. Maintain data in the office per specifics detailed in previous weeks.

During this week, intern will deliver the presentation to the Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Wyoming; the Cadastral Survey Project Coordinator; and interested field office personnel on the summer’s experiences, plans and skills attained (deliverables).

Expected interaction with internal and external stakeholders:

Public/Private Interaction – Primary daily interaction will be with the Cadastral Survey Project Coordinator (aka directing BLM land surveyor), and peripherally with members of the public routinely encountered in the field. Additional interaction may be required with local BLM leadership, associated lands and resources staff, and county personnel. Intern will be allowed to network with individuals in programs within their primary specialty or field of interest.

Expected interaction with Cadastral Survey Project Coordinator:

Interaction will consist of daily progressive field and office training with the project land surveyor (also project coordinator).

DAILY WORK SCHEDULE M-F:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Start time (am) 7:00 typical Mon. –Thurs.

End time (pm) 5:30 typical Mon. –Thurs.

Interns are contracted to work 40 hours per week. Overtime is strictly prohibited, and all interns must be afforded two 15-minute breaks and an unpaid 30 minute lunch break during each shift worked.

GOVERNMENT POINTS OF CONTACT:

Ordering Contracting Officer Crystal M. Martinez Contract Specialist, LLWY951000 Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office 5353 Yellowstone Rd.

Cheyenne, WY 82003-1828 Office: (307) 775-6336 Fax: 307-775-6317 crystalm@blm.gov

Security Requirements The BLM requires contractor personnel to have a Federal government-issued Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential before being allowed unsupervised access to a DOI/BLM facility and/or information system. Off-site personnel will not require a PIV.

The contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) or Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) will be the requesting official and will make arrangements through a DOI Access Card Sponsor for personal identity verification and DOI Access Card issuance.

At least two weeks before start of contract performance, the Contractor must identify all contractor and subcontractor personnel who will require physical and/or logical access for performance of work under this contract. Physical Access means routine, unescorted or unmonitored access to non-public areas of a Federally controlled facility. Logical access means routine, unsupervised access to a Level 3 or 4 Federally controlled information system. The Contractor must make their personnel available at the place and time specified by the COR/COTR or DOI Access Card Sponsor in order to initiate screening and background investigations. The following forms and inquiries, or their equivalent, will be used to initiate the credentialing process:

· OPM Standard Form 85 or 85P

· OF306

· National Criminal History Check (NCHC) (local procedures may require the fingerprinting to be done at a police station; in this case, any charges are to be borne by the contractor)

· Release to Obtain Credit Information

· PIV card application (web-based)

Before starting work under this contract, a National Criminal History Check (NCHC) will be initiated to verify the identity of the individual applying for clearance and to determine the individual’s suitability for the position. If the NCHC adjudication is favorable, a DOI Access Card will be issued for that individual. If the adjudication is unfavorable, the credentials will not be issued and the contractor must make other arrangements for performance of the work. In the event of a disagreement between the Contractor and the Government concerning the suitability of an individual to perform work under this contract, DOI/BLM shall have the right of final determination.

Contractor employees must give, and authorize others to give, full, frank, and truthful answers to relevant and material questions needed to reach a suitability determination. Refusal or failure to furnish or authorize provision of information may constitute grounds for denial or revocation of credentials. Government personnel may contact the contractor personnel being screened or investigated in person, by telephone or in writing, and the Contractor must ensure they are available for such contact.

Alternatively, if an individual has already been credentialed by another agency through OPM, and that credential has not yet expired, further investigation may not be necessary. In that case, the contractor must provide the COR/COTR with documentation that supports the individual’s credentialed status.

Contractor employees who have been successfully adjudicated will be issued DOI Access Cards, which must be activated at a USAcess Credentialing Center. Those Contractor employees not located within a reasonable travel time of a USAcess Credentialing Center will be screened and issued alternate credentials, such as temporary access badges.

During performance of the contract, the Contractor must keep the COR/COTR apprised of changes in personnel to ensure that performance is not delayed by compliance with credentialing processes. Cards that have been lost, damaged, or stolen must be reported to the COR/COTR and issuing Office within 24 hours. If reissuance of expired credentials is needed, it must be coordinated through the COR/COTR.

At the end of contract performance, or when a contractor employee is no longer working under this contract, the Contractor must ensure that all identification cards are returned to the COR/COTR.

This requirement must be incorporated into any subcontracts that require subcontractor personnel to have routine unsupervised access to a Federally controlled facility for more than 180 calendar days or any unsupervised access to a Federally controlled Level 3 or 4 information system.

Geospatial Data All geospatial data collected for or produced by federal agencies are required to meet all relevant standards established by the Federal Geospatial Data Committee (FGDC) as authorized by the Geospatial Data Act of 2018 (43 U.S.C. § 2809). All deliverables that include geospatial data products must include appropriate metadata conforming to FGDC standards. FGDC standards can be found on https://www.fgdc.gov/standards.

Privacy Act and Data This requirement does not include any classified material or information technology.

Contractors shall not be accessing a government/BLM facility. In the event that a contractor would be required to access a government/BLM facility (e.g. to conduct a records search), the Purchase Order must include specific instructions and necessary security requirements.

Contractors shall be responsible for protecting all information used, gathered, or developed as a result of work under this Purchase Order and as detailed in the resulting Statement of Work. The contractor shall protect all Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) government data. All compiled or derived information, work papers, drafts, and final documents developed or accessed, or any product/system developed are the property of the United States Government. Information acquired or generated by the Purchase Order is subject to the Privacy Act. All site-specific records, photographs, and maps generated in the course of the agreements, including original field maps and notes, will be considered BLM property and will be turned over to the Order COR upon completion of the project. The contractor’s Contract Manager will be responsible for ensuring that all excess site-specific documents, maps, site forms, etc., (i.e., those not submitted as deliverables, internal review drafts, etc.) are properly disposed of upon completion of the project.

ATTACHMENT 1

FY 2022 PROJECT PROPOSAL

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Branch of Cadastral Survey, Wyoming LLWY926000 Cadastral Resource Assistant Internship Program

PROJECT GOALS:

Typical Cadastral Survey projects consist of:

1) An intensive search for 19th and early 20th century stone, iron post and wooden post survey monuments set by U.S. General Land Office contract land surveyors. Field measurements are made to all recovered monuments using precision survey grade GPS equipment. Monuments and evidence recovered during the first phase is documented and subsequently researched (if necessary).

2 Survey corners are remonumented with modern regulation monuments as necessary.

The deliverable product will be reliably monumented federal boundaries for logical federal and public management purposes. Interns will assist the Cadastral land surveyor in all phases of the project as a trainee and will be required to function as the principal assistant to the land surveyor after an intensive daily training program. The intern will be required to operate survey equipment, manage data, conduct record research, and represent the bureau when encountering members of the public in the field. The ability to make sensible, informed decisions, analyze records and interact (general demeanor) with peers and members of the public will be evaluated throughout this project. Interns can be required to operate autonomously under supervision of the land surveyor after demonstrating proficiency.

Surveys, other than planned below, can be assigned and prioritized at any time during the internship period by the Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Wyoming, WYSO, Cheyenne to meet emergency requests, but the essential duties, nature of the work, methodology and weekly project goals will be identical. The Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Wyoming, also reserves the right to station interns in one of three other field stations in the state to meet staffing shortfalls. Either the Chief Cadastral Surveyor or local project coordinator/land surveyor will coordinate with the vendor to find intern housing.

Project Location 1 Duty Station Address:

280 Highway 191 North Rock Springs, WY, 82901 Project Inspector/Project Coordinator:

POC: Provided at Award

Location 1 Project Description 1 (Rock Springs Field Office) Dependent Resurvey of the Wyoming-Utah State Line – First phase consists of an intensive search for 19th century wooden post survey monuments and early 20th iron post monuments set by U.S. General Land Office contract land surveyors. Field measurements are made to all recovered monuments with precision survey grade GPS equipment. Phase 2 consists of analysis of evidence recovered during the first phase, research and subsequent resurvey to resolve the location/description ambiguities created by these surveys as necessary. Phase 3 consists of remonumentation of survey corners as necessary.

Location 1 Project Description 2 (Rock Springs Field Office) Sweeney Ranch Double Corner Investigation and Resurvey. First phase of the project will consist of an intensive search for 19th and early 20th century stone survey monuments set by U.S. General Land Office contract land surveyors. Field measurements are made to all recovered monuments with precision survey grade GPS equipment. Phase 2 consists of analysis of evidence recovered during the first phase, research and subsequent resurvey to resolve the location/description ambiguities created by these surveys as necessary. Phase 3 consists of remonumentation of all survey corners.

Project Location 2 Duty Station Address:

101 South 23rd Street Worland, WY 82401 Project Inspector/Project Coordinator:

POC: Provided at Award Location 2 Project Description 1 (Worland Field Office) Dependent resurvey of boundary lines for the Shoshone National Forest – First phase consists of an intensive search for 19th century stone survey monuments set by U.S. General Land Office contract land surveyors, 20th century iron and aluminum post monuments set by BLM land surveyors, as well as survey monuments set by USFS and private surveyors. Field measurements are made to all recovered monuments with precision survey grade GPS equipment. Phase 2 consists of analysis of evidence recovered during the first phase, research and subsequent resurvey to resolve any location/description ambiguities. Phase 3 consists of remonumentation of survey corners as necessary, along with posting and clearing of the Forest Service boundary.

Location 2 Project Description 2 (Worland Field Office) Dependent resurvey, survey of the subdivision of a section, and survey of a federal parcel boundary–Assisting in the completion of dependent resurvey of a section originally monumented with 19th stone survey monuments set by U.S. General Land Office contract land surveyors, and remonumented with private survey monuments, and the survey of the subdivision of the section. Analysis of record title documents showed a discrepancy with the physical location of federal government facilities, and a corrected boundary line around the federal parcel will be established and monumented. interact (general demeanor) with peers and members of the public will be evaluated throughout this project. Interns can and will be required to operate autonomously under supervision of the land surveyor (as a team) after demonstrating proficiency.

Note: 2022 interns will be involved in all three phases of the project.

ATTACHMENT 2

Career fields necessary to the effective management of public lands and resources:

Cadastral Survey, Park/Refuge/Monument Management and Administration, Natural Resources Management, Environmental Policy and Management, Environmental/Civil Engineering, Historic and/or Cultural Resources Management, Business Management and Administration, Public Policy/Administration and Management, Resource Protection.

Occupational Series for internships include but is not limited to:

Cartographic Technician/Cadastral Survey Technician (1371/0817), Civil Engineer (0810), Geographer/Remote Sensing Specialist (0150), Geographic Information System Technician (1301), Geologist (1350), Hydrologist (1316), Land Law Examiner (0965), Land Surveyor (1373), Natural Resources Specialist (0401), Outdoor Recreation Specialist (0023), Paleontologist (1350), Physical Scientist (1311), Realty Specialist (1170), Surface Compliance Specialist (1802), Wildlife Biologist/Technician (0486)