The USDA Forest Service will contract survey services for landline maintenance. Approximately sixteen hundred (1600) miles of landline maintenance work is anticipated in Hurricane Katrina impacted areas of the DeSoto National Forest in Mississippi. The DeSoto National Forest has been divided geographically into four zones. The Forest Service is soliciting the submission of a Standard Form 330 (Architect-Engineer Related Services Questionnaire). Information from these forms will evaluate according to selection criteria that emphasize ability and experience in conducting landline maintenance. To be considered for this work, a firm shall have in its employ a surveyor licensed as a registered professional surveyor in the State of Mississippi and said surveyor shall be responsible of 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 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. The following criteria needs to be addressed by the submitting firm: Criteria 1: Professional qualifications necessary for the satisfactory performance of the required services. Criteria 2: Specialized experience and technical competence in the type of work required. Criteria 3: Capacity to accomplish work within 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 laws, regulations, and performance schedules, and overall customer satisfaction. Criteria 5: Location of the firm in the general geographic 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 shall 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 include the firms? quality control plan and proposed methods and procedures for conducting rural boundary surveys. This solicitation is a partial small disabled veteran owned small business set-aside. Business size representations and certifications will be obtained prior to negotiation of those projects. INTERESTED FIRMS SHOULD SUBMIT THE ABOVE MENTIONED STANDARD FORM 330 BY February 26, 2007, LOCAL TIME, TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS: Anieta L. McLendon, R8/R9 Western Operations Center-AQM, 100 W. Capitol, Suite 1141, Jackson, MS 39269-1602. Please mark the envelope containing your submittals with the caption ?AG-447U-S-07-0016AM?. This is not a request for proposal. Questions regarding the submittals should be emailed to Anieta L. McLendon at [email protected] or faxed to 601-965-1788.

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