F--Indigenous Seed Collection Project

Notice of Intent for Sole Source, Indigenous Seed Collection for Wind Cave National Park. The National Park Service, NPS NEKOTA MABO, intends to issue a Sole Source award to Intertribal Buffalo Council, Rapid City, South Dakota, a federally chartered Tribal organization to assist Wind Cave National Park and tribal partners to restore native plants using seed collection crews to collect Native grass, and forb seeds at five Park and Tribal locations to supporting biodiversity and the ecological integrity of mixed prairie grasses in the Northern Great Plains and develop a seed library for plan restoration efforts, from one source under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b). This will be a commercial acquisition using simplified acquisition procedures and will be classified under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 561730 with a Small Business Size Standard of $8 million. This is a Sole Source Notice and not a request for quotations. No solicitation document is available with this notice. A determination not to compete this proposed order based on responses to this notice will be made at the discretion of the Government. Information received from firms as a result of this notice will be considered for support of the Government's determination to support of a non-competitive strategy. Contact Contracting Officer, Ron Kesterson, ron_kesterson@nps.gov, 605-574-0229, for more information regarding the requirement.