B -- National Visitor Use Monitoring and Interview

The solicitation for this project will be posted for review and printing on the FedBizOpps website in approximately fifteen days. The contractor shall furnish all equipment, labor, materials, (Except those furnished by the Government), transportation, supervision and incidentals necessary to perform Recreation Use Surveys at times and sites given by the government. To better understand the amount of recreation use and user satisfaction. The USDA Forest Service is surveying users on all forests through a random sampling system over the next four years. This project will be for the Salmon Challis National Forest and will be completed during the year 2003. The Salmon Challis National Forest has 124 surveys to be taken from May 9 through September 30, 2003. Actual duration of survey takes 6 hours at the site, however traffic counters shall be placed to count traffic for a 24 hour period of time, which includes the survey time. It is important that each survey be completed on the prescribed date and time as indicated on the schedule.