SAM #12FPC326Q0037

USDA NRCS New Mexico Solicits Cultural Resources Inventory and Recordation Services

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in New Mexico is seeking contractors to perform intensive pedestrian cultural resources inventory and recordation services across four project areas totaling 2,647 acres in De Baca, Guadalupe, San Miguel, and Torrance Counties, New Mexico. - Government Buyer: - United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), NRCS New Mexico - OEMs and Vendors: - No specific Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) or commercial vendors are named in the solicitation - Products/Services Requested: - Intensive pedestrian cultural resources inventory and recordation services - Four project areas, totaling 2,647 acres - Locations: De Baca, Guadalupe, San Miguel, and Torrance Counties, New Mexico - Includes records review, field survey, documentation, evaluation of historic properties, and reporting - Compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and State of New Mexico OAHP standards - Deliverables: detailed reports and GIS data - Unique or Notable Requirements: - Contractors must meet personnel qualification standards and obtain necessary permits - Work must comply with both federal and state cultural resource laws - Project is a Total Small Business Set-Aside under NAICS 541620 - Firm fixed price contract; evaluation based on technical capability, management capacity, past experience, and price - Fieldwork for the first task order must begin within 30 days of award - Draft and final report deadlines tied to fieldwork completion and government review - Partial payments based on completion of fieldwork, draft reports, and final deliverables

Description

The NRCS is soliciting proposals from Contractors for the completion of an intensive pedestrian cultural resources inventory of four (4) projects where undertakings are planned. The project areas occur on private lands and New Mexico State Trust lands located in De Baca, Guadalupe, San Miguel, and Torrance Counties, New Mexico. For these undertakings, the NRCS New Mexico is providing technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers to implement conservation practices that have potential to affect cultural resources within the delineated project areas. The project areas range in size between 170 and 1,091 acres, with a combined acreage of 2,647 acres. The proposed conservation practices in the project areas are intended to improve overall range conditions, reduce soil losses, improve wildlife habitat, and increase forage production. Because these projects will receive Federal funding from the NRCS through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Bill, the proposed conservation practices are considered undertakings subject to review for potential impacts to historic properties under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Identification of cultural resources within the area of potential effects (APE) is therefore necessary before implementation of the proposed conservation practices may occur.

Contractors will complete an intensive pedestrian cultural resources inventory of the indicated APEs to identify historic properties that may be adversely affected as a result of the proposed undertaking(s). As stated previously, and as shown on the attached project maps, the APE’s for the projects total 2,647 acres of private and New Mexico State Trust lands located in De Baca, Guadalupe, San Miguel, and Torrance Counties, New Mexico. The planned conservation practices and standard buffers guided the development of the APE for the purposes of these projects.

Any/all questions must be submitted in writing to amy.smith2@usda.gov no later than August 3, 2026, 5:00pm ET.

Please see RFQ documents/attachments below for complete details.

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