Heritage resources IDIQ

The Black Hills National Forest and Nebraska National Forest have an anticipated requirement to obtain services for cultural resource inventories and National Register of Historic Places site evaluations.

This Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract will entail a base and two option years, for cultural resource inventories, with compliance mandates established in Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).

Contracted projects may include, but are not limited to, timber sales, road construction or reconstruction, land exchanges, prescribed burns, mechanical thinning, range allotments, and range-improvement projects.

The contractor may be responsible for any of the following tasks:

• Class/Level I (nomenclature and definitions vary by state
• Class/Level II stratified sample survey
• Class/Level III intensive field inventories
• Subsurface testing to identify buried components
• Site evaluations to determine NRHP eligibility
• Preparation of inventory reports
• Completion of site condition assessments utilizing appropriate site  
   monitoring forms
• Submission of collected materials for curation
• Collection and transfer of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) spatial and
   tabular data.
• Post-fire damage assessments

SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS: The solicitation, AG-82X9-S-12-0107, and related documents will be issued via FedBizOpps as a Request For Proposal (RFP), resulting in an IDIQ contract. The North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) is 541990. The solicitation will be available for downloading on or about June 15, 2012, at the website address: http://www.fbo.gov/. NOTE: THIS IS A SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE. A Pre-Proposal Meeting date will be included in the solicitation. All vendors are required to be registered in the Central Contractor Registration database (CCR) prior to award of a Federal contract. Registration may be completed on the internet at http://www.ccr.gov/. Vendors are required to register at the Online Representations and Certifications website (ORCA); registration may be completed on the internet at http://www.bpn.gov.