BACKGROUND:

Boulder County Parks and Open Space (BCPOS) is seeking qualifications from consulting firms for vegetation monitoring and vegetation mapping services. The County is seeking qualified contractors to retain for future projects of the discipline as described in the Specifications section. All specific projects will be sent out to the selected continuing services contractors by the County’s informal bid process. Each contractor on the list will have the opportunity to bid on the individual projects.

Selected consulting firms must have experience in completing Line Point Intercept vegetation monitoring, and vegetation mapping using the United States National Vegetation Classification (USNVC) System. Qualifying firms must have the ability to identify species to specific epithet, including plants at vegetative or early basal life stages. The vegetation mapping requires identification of plant communities to the association level and field verification of the designation. The vegetation mapping requires a minimum mapping unit of 1/4th acre for upland areas and 1/10th of an acre for wetlands. The vegetation mapping also requires identification of the dominant species by structural level, including tree, shrub, subshrub, gram, and forb. All field data for both the monitoring and mapping must be submitted to the County along with final reports and final GIS data based upon the County’s requirements for individual projects awarded.

WRITTEN INQUIRIES:

All inquiries regarding this SOQ will be submitted via email to the Boulder County Purchasing Office at purchasing@bouldercounty.org on or before 2:00 p.m. FEBRUARY 23, 2023. A response from the county to all inquiries will be posted and sent via email no later than MARCH 1, 2023.

Do not contact any other county department or personnel with questions or for information regarding this solicitation.

SUBMITTAL INSTRUCTIONS:

Submittals are due at the email box only, listed below, for time and date recording on or before 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time on MARCH 3, 2023.

Please note that email responses to this solicitation are limited to a maximum of 50MB capacity.

NO ZIP FILES OR LINKS TO EXTERNAL SITES WILL BE ACCEPTED. THIS INCLUDES GOOGLE DOCS AND SIMILAR SITES. ALL SUBMITTALS MUST BE RECEIVED AS AN ATTACHMENT (E.G. PDF, WORD, EXCEL).

SOQ #7433-23