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This Presolicitation pertains to the DWA Helicopter for Wildlife Survey in accordance with the Performance Work Statement for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District. This will be a firm-fixed-price service contract with four option years. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this project is 481211 - Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation and the associated small business size standard is 1,500 employees. The solicitation will be a Total Small Business Set Aside.

This synopsis is not a request for quotes or proposals. This is a pre-solicitation notice that a solicitation has been scheduled to be released via https://sam.gov/ soon detailing requirements for the DWA Helicopter for Wildlife Survey. This information is for planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract.

As required by Department of Defense Instruction 4500.53, contracted air carriers must be Commercial Airlift Review Board approved.

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In order for contractors to conduct business with the Department of Defense, the Contractor must provide registration information to the System for Award Management (SAM). All offerors must be registered prior to receiving an award. Registration instructions may be obtained, and on line registration may be accomplished at www.sam.gov. By submission of a quote, the Contractor acknowledges the requirement to be registered in the SAM database prior to award, during performance and through final payment of any contract resulting from the solicitation. When available, the solicitation documents for this requirement will be accessible via sam.gov at https://sam.gov/content/home. No CD's or hard copies will be available. Offerors are responsible for any loss of internet connectivity or for an Offeror's inability to access the documents posted at the referenced website. Prospective offerors are responsible for checking for any update(s) to the Notice. To obtain automatic notifications of updates to this solicitation, you must log in to www.sam.gov and add the solicitation to your quote watch list.