MODIFICATION
B -- Technical Support for Assessing, Managing, and Communicating the Ecological and Human Health Risks of Contaminants in Water, Fish and Sediments and Microbial Pathogens in Surface Waters
- Notice Date
- 3/10/2008
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Cincinnati Procurement Operations Division 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive Cincinnati, OH 45268
- ZIP Code
- 45268
- Solicitation Number
- PR-CI-08-10066
- Response Due
- 3/26/2008
- Archive Date
- 4/25/2008
- Point of Contact
- CAMILLE W. DAVIS, Contract Specialist, Phone: (513) 487-2095, E-Mail: Davis.Camille@epa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to CAMILLE W. DAVIS
(Davis.Camille@epa.gov)
- 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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Water (OW), Office of Science and Technology (OST), Standards and Health Protection Division (SHPD) has a requirement for technical assistance and support services. This technical support will assist the EPA in its responsibilities under the Clean Water Act of 1987 (CWA) and EPA's Strategic Plan to direct the national program for adoption of Water Quality Standards (WQS) to develop prevention and remediation strategies to reduce the risk to human health and aquatic life resulting form contaminated fish and sediment, beach monitoring and advisories relating to microbial pathogens in surface waters, and preparing outreach and awareness materials including developing instructional material and presenting workshops. The specific purpose of a resultant contract would be for the contractor to provide technical support to the Agency in addressing the following task areas: risk-based analyses; economic and statistical analysis; model development and applications; guidance and report development' compilation and analysis of national and international environmental data; methods development and validation; environmental assessments; field sampling; laboratory analytical services; workshops, conferences, training, and logistical support; expert/peer review support; public outreach and technology transfer; compilation, categorization, and summarization of comments; and preparation of presentation materials. Technical support is required for the following Performance Work Statement (PWS) tasks: (1) provide risk-based analyses to assess the human health and/or ecological risks associated with exposure to contaminants and microbial pathogens in water, sediment, and fish tissue; (2) provide economic and statistical analyses and data for alternative regulatory and policy options for the benefits of the regulation or policy to society; (3) select, enhance, validate, calibrate, and apply models to address specific problems for a range of environmental areas; (4) provide technical support in the development of EPA technical guidance documents and reports; (5) support the maintenance and updating of the national and international environmental databases; (6) support eh development of evaluation and application of methods for molecular biological, biological, microbiological sediment toxicity and water quality assessment in marine and freshwater environments; (7) support conducting environmental assessments to prevent and remediate toxic contaminants in water, sediment, and fish tissue and assess microbial pathogens in water; (8) perform field sampling for benthic organisms, sediments, fish, indicators of microbial pathogens and water quality; (9) perform laboratory analyses, including analytical chemistry, toxicological, molecular biological and biological testing methods; (10) provide support for the Agency in providing and/or attending training sessions, interactive workshops, technical assistance workshops, public forums, facilitated negotiations, meetings, teleconferences, and in-person conferences; (11) provide peer review of documents or products developed by EPA; (12) assist EPA in developing public education, outreach, user help documentation and support and technology transfer documents and information materials; (13) compile, categorize, and summarize public comments on and EPA responses to draft and/or proposed rules, policies and guidance developed by EPA; and support the EPA in the development of administration and Congressional staff and managers and public meetings on the results of analyses, methodologies, and assessments developed by the contractor. The successful contractor shall provide all necessary labor, materials, facilities, and services in support of the efforts. It is anticipated that the contract will be a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) Level of Effort (LOE) starting in April 2009 with a one year Base Period and four Optional Periods of 12 months each. Approximately 12,000 LOE hours are anticipated for each contract period with contractor's needing to provide as much as an additional 12,000 hours for a total of 120,000 hours in total for all periods if all the potential LOE hours are realized. The applicable NAICS code is 541712 with a size standard of 500 employees. 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), woman-owned, small disadvantaged and/or disabled veteran owned concern. The EPA reserves the right to set this action aside for small businesses if it determines that there are two or more small businesses able to compete in terms of market prices, quality, and delivery. If set aside, a small business would be required to perform at least 50 percent of the direct labor costs incurred under the contract with its own personnel (FAR 52.219-14). Capability statements from small businesses should address their ability to meet this requirement. Responses to the above should be submitted to Camille Davis, USEPA, 26 West Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268, or davis.camille@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.
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