RECOVERY---- MONTANA CORNER COLLECTION

RECOVERY: THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. The Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center (NOC), intends to award a call/task order against the competitively awarded Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for GCDB and Land Records Services to procure services for GPS Corner Collection in Montana. The BPA being utilized is L10PA00578, and was awarded to Premier Data Services through GSA contract number GS-35F-0418K. The BPA was competed amongst GSA contract holders and Premier Data Services proved to provide the best value to the government. This opportunity is only available to the current BPA contract holder. This notice is not a solicitation for offers. The Request for Proposal (RFP) package will be sent to the designated BPA contract holder. This acquisition falls under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 518210. Below is a general description of the services required. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, the Montana BLM has been tasked with ensuring positional mapping accuracy of records and boundaries in support of renewable energy development. The Bureau of Land Management has been compiling survey information and GPS positions to accurately portray the Public Land Survey System in support of parcel based recordation, as well as analysis and display of geographic information. This information known as the Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB), has been assembled in a series of ascii flat files which is converted to a GIS format to support stakeholders and customers of the information. The geographic location of the identified renewable energy townships, is primarily in areas having the potential for renewable energy in support of the current administrations energy priorities and in the transmission of that energy. This work will include the research of survey information for each corner in preparation for recovering survey corners and measuring their positions with survey grade GPS receivers. Research may be conducted on federal, state, or private/local government survey records. Work shall include research that is needed to efficiently locate, record information, and measure the location of survey corners or boundary locations. Only one coordinate pair in North American Datum 1983 (NAD 83), is needed for all rectangular or non-rectangular corners. The accepted GPS measurements will be used for control in the GCDB. Digital photographs of found monumentation as well as other evidence such as bearing trees etc. shall be collected. This work shall be performed on approximately 1000 corner positions in 147 townships. Remonumentation of government corner positions is not allowed under this award. Monuments shall be described as found and not rehabilitated. The contractor will not use accessories to establish a corner position, but accessories may be used to verify that a monument is in the position of record. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing by email to Chad Hepp, Contracting Officer, at [email protected].