Performance Based Service Contract (PBSC) for Biological Surveys, National Forests in Mississippi

National Forests in Mississippi are soliciting for biological survey services on lands within its administrative boundaries in south Mississippi. For this requirement, the contractor shall provide all materials, labor, equipment, tools, transportation, permits, licenses, supervision, expertise, and other incidentals necessary to successfully conduct field surveys for Non-Native Invasive Species (NNIS), Threatened, Endangered, Locally Rare, and Sensitive plants, as well as unique habitats, gopher tortoise burrows, and Red Cockaded Woodpecker natural cavity trees within designated project areas. Following completion of field work, contractor shall prepare and submit a written draft report for approval and subsequent final report for each compartment, burn block, or stream surveyed. This is a request for proposals which will result in award of multiple firm-fixed price, performance-based, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts for a basic period of performance from date of award through December 31, 2017, plus four (4) one-year option periods. Submission of an offer for the basic contract period constitutes an offer to perform in the option period(s), if exercised. This project is set-aside 100% for small businesses. Award will be made based on the best value to the Government and can be made on initial offers. Pre-Proposal Conference: A Pre-Bid/Pre-Proposal Conference is scheduled for Thursday, November 10, 2016, 1 pm, at the Southern Fire Training Center, 3139 HWY 468 W., Pearl, MS 39208. In order to facilitate conference preparations, offerors planning to attend are required to RSVP via email to gpelch02@fs.fed.us, by 3:00 p.m., Monday November 7. If we do not receive any RSVPs, the Pre-Proposal Conference will be cancelled and all offerors will be notified via amendment to the solicitation posted to Fed Biz Opps, www.fbo.gov. The solicitation and related documents will be available for download at https://www.fbo.gov/ on or about October 19, 2016. No hard copies of the solicitation will be mailed out. Interested vendors should register to receive notifications through this site. Contractors in interested in this procurement should register to receive notifications by clicking on, "Add Me To Interested Vendors." The offer due date is extended to December 8, 2016, 1500 Central Time.