R--Special Notice of Intent to Sole Source Award

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to award a sole source contract to NMC, Inc. (DBA: New Mexico Consortium) for LiDAR data processing and advanced 3D fuels modeling services. The contract will be for a period of 12 months and will provide services required by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including conversion of raw airborne LiDAR datasets into usable digital elevation models, terrain surfaces, vegetation structure metrics, and 3D fuels products. The services will be used for ecological analysis and land management decision-making. Key points about this opportunity include: • The contract will be awarded to NMC, Inc. (DBA: New Mexico Consortium) due to their unique expertise and capabilities. • The services will include LiDAR data processing and advanced 3D fuels modeling. • The contract will be for a period of 12 months. • The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service believes that competing this requirement would delay mission-critical deliverables, disrupt technical continuity, and require extensive retraining of new vendors.