Sources Sought: Natural Resources Services for NAVFAC SW

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT announcement for Market Research to be used for preliminary planning purposes. The information received will be used within the Navy to facilitate the decision making process and will not be disclosed outside of the agency. The intent of this Sources Sought is to identify potential qualified Small Businesses, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) certified 8(a) Businesses, SBA certified HUBZone Small Businesses, Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Businesses, and/or Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses. This Sources Sought is one facet in the Government's overall market research in regards to whether the proposed solicitation will be issued as a competitive set-aside or as full and open (unrestricted). No procurement strategy will be determined based solely on the information received in response to this Sources Sought Synopsis.

THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this synopsis or any follow up information requests. Respondents will NOT be notified of the results of the evaluations.

The purpose of this Sources Sought is to seek potential qualified small business sources with indication of business size classification, including:

8(a),

HubZone Small Business,

Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business,

Small Business,

Small Disadvantaged Business,

Women-Owned Small Business,

Veteran-Owned Small Business

The Government will use responses to this Sources Sought Synopsis to assist the Government in making appropriate acquisition decisions. If, after review of the responses to this Sources Sought Synopsis, the Government still plans to proceed with the acquisition, a combined synopsis/solicitation will be published on SAM.gov.

Services to be acquired:

Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, Southwest is seeking sources with current relevant qualifications, experience, personnel, and capability to provide, under contract, all labor, management, supervision, tools, materials, travel, lodging/subsistence, equipment, and transportation necessary to performing natural resources related studies, investigations. Areas of responsibility including of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, and other States as needed. The majority of the services are expected to be performed in California.

Services may include, but are not limited to:

Botanical, ornithological,

Mammal, amphibian, reptile and invertebrate surveys;

Wetlands delineations;

Biological monitoring;

Soil sampling and analysis;

Natural resources management plans;

Native plant community planning and restoration,

Wildland erosion control plans,

Fire management plans;

Analysis of the effects of military training or similar extensive land uses (e.g. off-road vehicle use) on natural resources at species, community, and landscape scale, and use of this information to predict ecological trends;

Natural resource and land use model development (including both conceptual and mathematical modeling);

Aerial photo interpretation of land use and natural resources in non-urban areas;

Geographic information systems (GIS);

Research on natural resource related topics; and

Preparation of interpretive materials on natural resources topics (e.g. informational pamphlets and signage)