Monroe County Remonumentation Services RFQ

Location:	Michigan
Posted:	Apr 20, 2026
Due:	May 20, 2026
Agency:	Monroe County
Type of Government:	State & Local
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Monroe County

Monroe County Community Planning & Engagement

Department

965 South Raisinville Road, Monroe, Michigan 48161

Telephone: 734-240-3288 • Fax: 734-240-3286 •

www.co.monroe.mi.us/planning

COUNTY OF MONROE

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS

REMONUMENTATION SERVICES

Request for Qualifications Issued:

Qualification Statements Due:

April 20, 2026

May 20, 2026 at 4:00 p.m.

April 20, 2026

Dear Land Surveyor:

The County of Monroe is seeking services from professional surveyors licensed in the State of

Michigan to perform remonumentation services in accordance with Act 345 of 1990.

Surveyors shall submit a statement of their qualifications to perform these services, which are

described in detail below. Statements of qualifications shall include the surveyors’ license number,

as well as a description of experience, in particular, of experience with remonumentation, the

remonumentation peer group, corner excavation and research, installation of government

monuments, and filing of Land Corner Recordation Certificates.

26 corners are proposed to be remonumented in 2026. Contract surveyors should indicate which

corners they are interested in undertaking in order of preference.

Statements of Qualifications shall be submitted to the Remonumentation Grant Administrator:

Mr. Jason Berry, Community Planning & Engagement Director

County of Monroe

965 S. Raisinville Rd.

Monroe, MI 48161

or via e-mail as a separate Microsoft Word Document to jason_berry@monroemi.org.

The deadline for the receipt of Statements of Qualification shall be, May 20, 2026 at 4:00 p.m.

Questions may be addressed to Mr. Berry at telephone number (734)-240-3288 or e-mail at

jason_berry@monroemi.org.

The County of Monroe reserves the right to accept or to reject any and all proposals, to waive any

irregularities and to make an award that is determined by the County of Monroe to be in the best

interest of the County.

Sincerely,

Jason Berry

Director, Community Planning & Engagement Department

REMONUMENTATION SERVICES RFQ

I. SCOPE OF SERVICES. The purpose of this proposal is to provide services to the County of Monroe

(“County”) for the orderly monumentation or Remonumentation of the public land survey corners

(“corners”) which are a part of this proposal. The location of said corners shall be established in

accordance with the procedures set forth in the “Manual of Instructions for the Survey of Public Lands

of the United States”, 1973, prepared by the Bureau of Land Management of the United States

Department of Interior (Technical Bulletin 6, or subsequent editions). The Surveyor, hereinafter referred

to as “Contract Surveyor”, shall comply with the applicable rules established under Act 345, P.A. 1990;

the approved Monroe County, Michigan, Monumentation and Remonumentation Plan; and rules

heretofore established by the County Board of Commissioners.

A. RESEARCH

Research for all corners will be conducted by the Contract Surveyor and reimbursed at $150.00

per corner.

B. MONUMENTATION

1. The Contract Surveyor shall establish no less than four (4) accessories for each corner included in

the proposal. The accessories selected shall be in accordance with the requirements of Act 74, P.A.

1970, as amended. If there are not four (4) satisfactory natural or man-made objects available

within two hundred feet (200') of the corner, ½" by 36" pipe will be set. If possible, avoid fence

posts unless they are exceptionally solid and durable. All accessory measurements shall be

horizontal measurements.

2. In areas where the only information available is the original General Land Office survey data or

where it is difficult to narrow down a corner search area, it may be advantageous to perform a

corner search after a random traverse line has been surveyed along the section lines between known

corners. The original line calls and corner locations can be calculated and field located from the

random traverse, thus narrowing down the search area and maximizing the effort spent on the

actual field search for original survey evidence and/or subsequent survey corner evidence. As the

expense of conducting a search and traverse as described above may exceed the per corner amount

as agreed upon in this proposal, additional compensation can be requested as provided for in

Section III of this proposal.

3. For each corner in the proposal, the Contract Surveyor shall report to the Peer Group the nature of

the physical conditions at the corner, and recommend the type of standard monument to set.

4. At each corner included in the proposal, the Contract Surveyor shall set in the ground the

monument which has been previously approved by the Peer Group. Each monument shall be set

at the location approved by the Peer Group and set in accordance with Monroe County Road

Commission requirements for corner monumentation within public roadways.

5. For each corner in the proposal and after installation of the approved monuments, the Contract

Surveyor shall prepare and record at the Register of Deeds office, a separate Land Corner

Recordation Certificate under Act 74, P.A. 1970, as amended. This certificate shall also state that

the corner location was approved by the Peer Group of the Monroe County Survey Plan, and the

date of that approval. Two copies of each recorded certificate shall be furnished to the County

Representative. One copy shall be placed in the appropriate dossier, and the other copy shall be

provided to the County Grant Administrator.

C. FIELD SURVEY

The Contract Surveyor shall conduct survey work to tie corners within a project together and to relate

them to other controlling corners. The surveyor shall provide a sketch for evaluation of the position

for all points submitted for Peer Group review. This would NOT include coordinates.

D. GEODETIC COORDINATES

1. The LCRC requires latitude and longitude values be reported to a minimum accuracy of 0.01

seconds of arc, which is equivalent to approximately one-foot and obtained either:

• Directly from a Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS), or

• From supplemental control established from CORS, or

• From supplemental control established from other passive NGS horizontal control stations

2. The following information must be published on a Land Corner Recordation Certificate for all

corners.

Latitude: 00M00"00.00"

Longitude: 00M00"00.00"

Estimated Accuracy: 00.00" or 0.00ft or SD or PPM or RMS or etc.

Datum and Adjustment Year: AAAAAAA(####)

Epoch Date: DD-MMM-YYYY

Date of Observation: DD-MMM-YYYY

Method of Survey: Narrative explanation

E. 2026 WORK PROGRAM

The corners to be researched and monumented will be organized into “projects.” The number of

corners per project will be determined by the number of surveyors selected to participate in the

program. The Contract Surveyor shall complete all of the corners in a project as well as a field survey

to tie the corners together.

The Contract Surveyor, with prior approval of the Peer Group and the Grant Administrator may

substitute other corners for any of the below listed corners or may omit corners from the project for

valid reasons.

Note that some corners may be common corners. Surveyors are compensated for the reconnaissance,

field survey, peer group presentation, and LCRC preparation for each individual corner in a set of

common corners, but will only be compensated for the remonumentation of one of the corners.

PROPOSED 2026 REMON CORNERS FOR MONROE COUNTY

London Township, Town 5 South, Range 7 East (14 corners)

B-04, B-05, C-05,

D-04, E-04, E-09,

F-04, F-08, F-09, F-10,

G-04, G-08, G-10, H-08

Dundee Township, Town 6 South, Range 6 East (12 corners)

H-04, H-05, H-06, H-07,

I-06, J-03, J-04, J-05, J-06,

L-03, L-04, L-05

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