Surveying Services - Boundary and Topographic - Wetlands Reserve Program - New York State

Award for services for geographic Area 4 as defined above

Award for services for geographic Area 3 as defined above.

Award for services for geographic Area 2 as defined above.

Award for services with geographic Area 1 as defined above.

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is seeking engineering firms qualified to provide boundary and topographic surveys of proposed wetland easement areas.

Boundary survey work shall include research, field surveys, field notes, computations, boundary monumentation, a survey map, report, boundary description, CD +/- R in ESRI format shape file, and surveyor?s certificate addressing title subjections. Requirements for survey mapping: all surveys are to be completed on hardcopy map will be close traverses meeting a minimum accuracy of 1/10,000 after angular adjustments. Methods used to obtain this requirement are at the discretion of the surveyor. Each parcel map shall include the Point of Beginning with an associated coordinate, the grid angle between True North and Grid North and scale factor for converting grid distance to ground distances. Requirements for resource GPS: all surveys shall be referenced to UTM Zone 18 or 17, North American Datum (NAD) 83 decimal degrees, meters. Required accuracy of three meters or less on all positions.



Topographic surveys shall include sufficient detail to produce a topographic map of the designated area with a one foot contour. Obvious grade breaks will be noted. All low points along the boundary of the site will be determined such that maximum water levels in impoundments can be designed without flooding off site land. Any channels deeper than 1.5 feet will be shown. The main drainage way will be identified as such. The water surface elevation and date shall be noted on significant bodies of standing water. Any significant ground features (culverts, tile outlets, obstructions, etc.) that can not be identified on an aerial photograph will be identified and located. Topographic survey will be geo-rectified to the UTM NAD 83 horizontal projection such that ortho-images can be easily overlain. Pipe invert elevations on visible inlets and outlets will be noted. Use UTM NAVD 88 for vertical datum. Topographic surveys will be provided in the form of a map, and electronically on a CD in a format that can be opened in AutoCAD 2006. Surface data used to generate contours will be provided in a form usable in Autodesk Land Desktop (e.g., dtm file, 3D faces, breaklines, boundary polylines). If special linetypes are used, the linetype file will be provided. Survey point data will be provided in a comma delimited ASCII file. Control points with descriptions and witness data will be included. A list of feature codes describing points will be provided. All topographic survey data will be provided in US Survey Feet.



Must be a professional, licensed surveyor registered in the State of New York. The type of contract to be awarded will be an Indefinite Delivery and Indefinite Quantity contract, consisting of one or more work orders. Work will be ordered on an as needed basis beginning approximately April 1, 2008 through March 31, 2009 for the base year with the option on the part of the Government to renew for four (4) option periods of one year each. Work may be ordered for a boundary survey only, a topographic survey only, or both. At least one award will be made for each of four (4) geographic areas within the State of New York, as follows: Area 1 ? Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming, Yates; Area 2 ? Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Otsego, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins; Area 3 ? Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Montgomery, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren, Washington; Area 4 - Albany, Delaware, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Schenectady, Schoharie, Sullivan, Ulster, Westchester. More than one contract may be awarded in an area. The minimum the Government must order per contract is no less than $2,500 in services during the contract period. The maximum the Government may order per contract in the base year or any of the individual option years shall not exceed $100,000 per contract.



Firms will be evaluated on the following factors:



1. Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of required services - (20 points).



2. Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required (20 points) - evaluation will be based on knowledge of local survey practices, records research and the approach used on previous surveys to solve problems resulting from conflicting title or physical evidence. Include with this item a sample surveyor?s report accompanied by a plat identifying a boundary conflict and providing an appropriate conclusion or suggested solution.



3. Capacity to accomplish the work in the required performance time (20 points) - evaluation will be based on ability to accomplish multiple work orders to completion within performance time and the ability to add personnel and/or consultants to complete work on time.



4. Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work, and compliance with performance schedules (20 points)



5. Location in the general geographic area of the project and knowledge of the locality of the project area (10 points) - for firms outside of the general project area, provide plan to provide service in a cost effective manner.



6. Aggressive internal quality control program (10) ? evaluation will be based on demonstrated results of eliminating or reducing errors and/or omissions.



Interested and qualified firms should submit no later than 4:00 p.m. on February 15, 2008: a Standard Form 330, Part I Architect-Engineer Contract Specific Qualification and Part II Architect-Engineer General Qualifications as well as additional documentation as noted above to address each of the six (6) evaluation factors and indicating the geographic area(s) they wish to be considered for. Please limit narrative responses to one page per evaluation factor. This solicitation is a TOTAL SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE. The Small Business size is based on NAICS code 541370, which is $4.5 million average annual income.