Loren Data's SAM Daily™

fbodaily.com
Home Today's SAM Search Archives Numbered Notes CBD Archives Subscribe
FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 09, 2018 FBO #6195
SOLICITATION NOTICE

66 -- U.S. EPA - Notice of Intent to Sole Source - CRDS

Notice Date
11/7/2018
 
Notice Type
Presolicitation
 
NAICS
334516 — Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
 
Contracting Office
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Acquisition Management (OAM), Cincinnati Procurement Operations Division (CPOD), 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45268, United States
 
ZIP Code
45268
 
Solicitation Number
PR-ORD-18-02655
 
Archive Date
11/24/2018
 
Point of Contact
Kimberly Loesch, , Brad Werwick, Phone: 513-487-2018
 
E-Mail Address
Loesch.Kimberly@epa.gov, werwick.brad@epa.gov
(Loesch.Kimberly@epa.gov, werwick.brad@epa.gov)
 
Small Business Set-Aside
N/A
 
Description
NAICS 334516 PSC 6640 NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), Air and Energy Management Division (AEMD) located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina has a requirement for two cavity ring-down spectrometers (CRDS) for measurements of N2O, NH3, CH4, CO2, and H2O emissions from aquatic, agricultural and biomass burning sources. The EPA intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(i), with Picarro, Inc. for two Model G2508 CRDS. ORD/NRMRL/AEMD requires the purchase of two cavity ring-down spectrometer (CRDS) for measurements of N2O, NH3, CH4, CO2, and H2O emissions from aquatic, agricultural and biomass burning sources. Purchase of these instruments supports ongoing and planned work within the ORD research projects via improved measurements of biogenic emissions of nitrogen and carbon (N2O, CH4) from reservoirs, emissions of reactive nitrogen from agricultural sources (NH3), and atmosphere/ecosystem interactions between carbon (CO2), reactive nitrogen (NH3), and water (H2O), development of emission factors (NH3, CO2, N2O, CH4) for biomass burning sources, and development of low cost sensors (NH3, CO2, N2O, CH4). Emission and deposition measurements are needed to quantify air quality impacts of nutrient runoff from agriculture, reduce uncertainty in biogenic and agricultural emission categories within the National Emission Inventory, improve nitrogen deposition budgets required for ecological assessments under the secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards, and to improve process oriented models of emissions and deposition in EPA regulatory tools such as the Community Multi-Scale Air Quality Model. CRDS represents the state of the art in trace gas measurement technology, providing the sensitivity and field ruggedness required for highly temporally resolved process-level measurements of emissions and air-surface exchange processes either within a mobile platform, as needed for reservoir sampling, or logistically challenging environments such as forest flux towers where deposition measurements are needed. Being a multi-analyte measurement system, these instruments will be used across the multiple applications described above, thereby supporting cross-laboratory, cross-division needs within the Air-Energy program Strategic Research Action Plan (StRAP). These instruments will be deployed in a mobile configuration for measurements of emissions from aquatic sources (i.e., on a boat) and biomass burning (i.e., in an instrumented field vehicle) and on tall towers (> 125 ft) to support air-surface exchange measurements in natural and agricultural landscapes. For these logistically challenging applications, space and weight limitations are extremely restrictive, precluding the use of multiple instruments to measure the required suite of compounds (i.e., N2O, NH3, CH4, CO2, and H2O). For this reason, a single instrument capable of measuring this full suite of compounds simultaneously is required. For these applications, the size of the analyzer, or total footprint of multiple analyzers, must be no more than 18" wide, 8" high, and 19" deep and the total weight of the analyzer (or multiple analyzers) must be 50 pounds or less. The EPA has identified Picarro, Inc. as the only known source able to satisfy the Government's requirement(s) because the Picarro Model G2508 CRDS is the only CRDS that: • Simultaneously measures N2O, NH3, CH4, CO2, and H2O; • Has a total footprint that is less than 18" wide, 8" high, and 19" deep; • Has a total weight that is less than or equal to 50lbs. This procurement will be accomplished under FAR Part 12 Commercial Procedures and FAR Part 13 Acquisition Procedures. It is our intent to award a single, fixed price purchase order for the two CRDS. THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTATIONS. Interested firms may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirements. Any firm that is capable of meeting EPA's requirement as set forth above may submit a response; which, if received within sixteen (16) calendar days of the date of this announcement, will be reviewed for consideration. Submit your request in writing to Kimberly Loesch via email at Loesch.Kimberly@epa.gov. Telephone requests will not be honored. A determination not to compete the described requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
 
Web Link
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/EPA/OAM/OH/PR-ORD-18-02655/listing.html)
 
Record
SN05146004-W 20181109/181107230636-052790145c9ead39b920ec466573b441 (fbodaily.com)
 
Source
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

FSG Index  |  This Issue's Index  |  Today's FBO Daily Index Page |
ECGrid: EDI VAN Interconnect ECGridOS: EDI Web Services Interconnect API Government Data Publications CBDDisk Subscribers
 Privacy Policy  © 1994-2020, Loren Data Corp.