B -- National Visitor Use Monitoring and Interview

The contract involves conducting Recreation Use Surveys for the USDA Forest Service’s Salmon Challis National Forest as part of a broader national effort to assess recreation use and user satisfaction. The contractor is required to provide all necessary equipment, labor, materials (except those supplied by the government), transportation, supervision, and incidental services to complete the surveys at specified times and locations. The work is scheduled to occur between May 9 and September 30, 2003, with a total of 124 surveys to be conducted. Each survey requires six hours on-site, and traffic counters must be installed to monitor activity over a full 24-hour period encompassing the survey time. Strict adherence to the scheduled dates and times is crucial. This solicitation, posted on the FedBizOpps website, is designated as a Total Small Business Set-Aside under FAR 19.5 and is managed by the USDA Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, with the contracting office based in Pocatello, Idaho. The project represents part of a four-year national study to collect data through random sampling on all forests, helping the USDA better understand visitor use patterns. The contracting officer for this opportunity is Diane Kohler, who can be contacted for further details.