SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Technical Support for Conducting Ecological Risk Assessment
- Notice Date
- 11/2/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541620
— Environmental Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Cincinnati Operations Procurement Division 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive Cincinnati, OH 45268
- ZIP Code
- 45268
- Solicitation Number
- PR-CI-07-10094
- Response Due
- 11/20/2006
- Archive Date
- 12/20/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS FOR WRITTEN INFORMATION ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is performing a ?market search? for large and small businesses in preparation for a future procurement. The EPA has a need for a contractor to provide the Office of Research and Development (ORD); National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) technical support for conducting ecological risk assessment which provides a formal approach for estimating the likelihood of an adverse ecological effect from a stressor and causal assessments which provide formal approaches for assigning probable causes to observed ecological effects. Specific areas to be addressed in capability packages are as follows: (1) Experience in developing, evaluating, and refining methods, analyses, and quantitative models in support of ecological causal and risk assessments; (2) Experience in developing and enhancing web- and PC-based assessment and visualization tools; (3) Experience in managing data and information to support all NCEA assessment activities and accessibility; (4) Experience in reviewing, extracting, pre-processing and summarizing relevant literature and data and support case study assessments. The successful contractor shall provide all necessary labor, materials, facilities, and services in support of the efforts delineated by the Performance Work Statement (PWS). A draft PWS can be obtained from the OAM website, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd/. It is anticipated that the contract will be a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) Level of Effort (LOE) starting in September 2007 with a one year Base Period and four Optional Periods of 12 months each. Approximately 8,250 LOE hours are anticipated for each contract period for a total of 41,250 hours. The applicable NAICS code is 541620 with a size standard of $6,500,000. Any interested firms should submit a capability statement which demonstrates the firm?s ability to perform the key requirements described above. Standard company brochures will not be considered a sufficient response to this Sources Sought Synopsis. In the capabilities statements, contractors should provide their size status for the above referenced NAICS code, (i.e. large, small) and whether or not they are a certified hubzone, 8(a), women-owned, small disadvantaged and/or disabled veteran owned concern. As a reminder, small businesses are required to perform at least 50 percent of the costs of the contract performance with their own personnel (FAR 52.219-14). The EPA reserves the right to set this action aside for small businesses. Responses to the above should be submitted to (Kimberli Irwin, USEPA, 26 West Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268, or Irwin.kimberli@epa.gov) no later than 15 calendar days from date of posting. A separate synopsis will be issued for the Request for Proposal (RFP) resulting from this sources source synopsis.
- Web Link
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The Environmental Protection Agency
(http://www.epa.gov/oam/solicit)
- Record
- SN01175394-W 20061104/061102221043 (fbodaily.com)
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