The USDA Forest Service, National Forest in Mississippi is seeking survey services for landline maintenance. Approximately eight hundred miles of land line maintenance work is anticipated in Hurricane Katrina impacted areas of the Desoto National Forest in Mississippi. There are three zones on the Desoto National Forest and one zone on the Chickasawhay National Forest. The Forest Service is soliciting the submission of a Standard Form 330 (Architect/Engineer Related Services Questionnaire). Information from these forms will be evaluated according to selection criteria that emphasize ability and experience in conducting landline maintenance. To be considered for this work, a firm must have in its employ a surveyor licensed as a registered professional surveyor in the State of Mississippi and said surveyor will be in responsible charge of all work awarded under this contract. A survey contract will be awarded to locate and maintain property lines and corners in each zone. Firms submitting proposals need to designate the zone or zones they are interested in for potential award of a contract. Work to be performed under this land surveying contract will be as follows: 1. Corner Maintenance – The replacement of dead, damaged, or destroyed bearing trees or objects with new references to Forest Service standards. Includes the documentation and filing of Forest Service Land Corner Cards. 2. Corner Monumentation – The placement of a monument and accessories at each corner position established by survey or recovered from evidence. Includes the documentation and filing of Forest Service Land Corner Cards. 3. Property Line Maintained - The marking and painting of previously located property lines to Forest Service standards between monumented and controlling corner positions. 4. WUIB Property Line Maintained – The marking and painting of previously located property lines to Forest Service that are along or near a cleared Wild land Urban Interface Boundary (WUIB). The following criteria need to be addressed by the submitting firm: Criteria 1: Professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of the required services. Criteria 2: Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required. Criteria 3: Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time. Criteria 4: Past performance on contracts with Government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, quality of work, compliance with performance schedules. Criteria 5: Location in the general geographical area of the project and knowledge of the locality of the project; provided, that application of this criterion leaves an appropriate number of qualified firms, given the nature and size of the project. Each proposal must include two plats of survey from previously completed rural boundary surveys, performed under the direction of the licensed land surveyor identified by the submitting firm as the individual who will conduct survey work under an awarded contract. Each proposal shall also include the firms’ quality control plan and proposed methods and procedures for conducting rural boundary surveys. The SF-330, and sample plats of surveys are due by CLOSE OF BUSINESS (4:30 PM CT), June 23, 2006. These should be submitted to Anieta McLendon, USDA Forest Service, R8/R9 Western Operations Center, 100 W. Capitol St., Suite 1141, Jackson, MS 39269. A Selection Board will evaluate each submission and rank them according to the above established Selection Criteria. Contract negotiations will then be initiated with the top ranked firm, proceeding to the next rated firm if necessary, until a mutually satisfactory agreement is achieved. This procurement is open to both large and small business concerns.

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