This is a special notice for architect-engineer (AE) services for the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region. The solicitation is a small business set-aside for cadastral surveying services (NAICS code ****). The Forest Service intends to award up to five or more indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts for a period of five years, with a total contract amount not exceeding $4 million. Each contract will have a guaranteed minimum of $1,000 for the first year. Firm-fixed-priced task orders will be issued as needed. Projects will focus on various land surveying tasks within national forests and grasslands in Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. Firms will be evaluated based on professional qualifications, specialized experience, technical competence, capacity, past performance, and geographical knowledge. Submission is via electronic copy of SF 330 AE qualifications by May 13, 2025, 4:30 PM Mountain Time, to ***@***. *. * must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database. Phone calls and personal visits are not allowed.
Submittals must be received no later than 4:30 p. m. Mountain Time (MT) on May 13, 2025. The bid due date was extended to May 21, 2025, at **** Mountain Time.
The bid notice states that firms will be evaluated on six factors: 1. Professional qualifications, 2. Specialized experience and technical competence, 3. Capacity to accomplish work in the required time, 4. Past performance, 5. Geographical area of the project and knowledge of the locality, and 6. Additional data. Factors 1 through 3 are considered most important, factor 4 is slightly less important, and factors 5 and 6 are of lesser importance and will be used as tiebreakers among technically equal firms.
The bid notice states that The contract requires that a firm have a professional land surveyor licensed in at least one of the following states: Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Kansas or Nebraska.
The bid notice states, Phone calls and personal visits for the purpose of discussing this solicitation with contracting project management and or engineering personnel are not allowed.
The bid notice states, The total amount for the contract s shall not exceed 4m.