SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Development ecological risk assessment methods and ecological risk assessment guidance documents.
- Notice Date
- 3/5/2002
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Contracts Management Division 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive Cincinnati, OH 45268
- ZIP Code
- 45268
- Solicitation Number
- PR-CI-02-10445
- Response Due
- 3/15/2002
- Archive Date
- 4/14/2002
- Point of Contact
- BARBARA A. CURTISS, Contract Specialist, Phone: 5134872036, E-Mail: curtiss.barbara@epa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to BARBARA A. CURTISS
(curtiss.barbara@epa.gov)
- 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 market research to identify the capability of any firms certified under the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program, to fulfill this requirement. The EPA Office of Research and Development has a requirement for a contractor to provide technical support for the development of ecological risk assessment information, methods, models, and guidance. The Contractor shall conduct the research and development that is needed to develop ecological risk assessment methods and develop ecological risk assessment guidance documents. The scope of this requirement ranges from the creation of completely new assessment methods to the modification and adaption of existing assessment methods to meet specific needs. The Contractor shall also prepare review drafts and final versions of the components of ecological risk assessments, e.g., planning and problem formulation, analysis of stressor-response, socio-economic impacts, and other related issues. These products will be used by EPA to develop ecological risk assessment reports that discuss the nature and degree of hazard and risk posed to ecological resources. The activities needed to accomplish this task include: identifying the relevant scientific literature and computerized databases, including geographic information databases; reviewing the relevant literature and databases to determine useful existing information for the development of the assessment methods; synthesize existing information into summaries of the state of knowledge; writing draft assessment methods based on existing information sources and scientific judgement for review of the work assignment manager, clearly identifying which parts of the draft represent existing information and which parts represent judgement; making revisions to the draft as directed by the work assignment manager; and producing final ecological risk assessment methodology. Ecological resources for which methods may be required include terrestrial systems, aquatic systems, combined aquatic and terrestrial systems, landscapes, and particular species of flora or fauna. The contractor shall also organize and manage peer reviews of projects and reports. These reviews must be performed by subject-matter experts in the area of ecology, and economics when socio-economic impacts of a risk assessment are requested. The contractor shall provide technical, administrative and editorial assistance for the preparation of reports, briefing documents, fact sheets, and training materials on current and emerging ecological risk issues, including related socio-economic issues, and guidance topics. This activity will require technical writing and editing, as well as preparation of graphics and audiovisual aids. The Contractor shall organize and manage public meetings, conferences and forums. Other required tasks include a requirement to develop an HTML, editor or other World Wide Web designer/hypertext applications editor to create interactive databases, and search engines or CD-ROMs, or expert systems for that specifically dealing with ecological risk assessment or causal evaluation for the transfer of information on ecological risk assessment that otherwise may not be available. It is anticipated that the contract will be a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee, Level of Effort contract and will have a base period with four (4) twelve month option periods. The applicable NAICS code is 541620 with a size standard of $6 million. ANY 8(a) CERTIFIED FIRM 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 must indicate if they are a certified 8(a) firm. Responses to the above should be submitted to the attention of Barbara Curtiss at curtiss.barbara@epa.gov no later than March 15, 2002.
- Web Link
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The Environmental Protection Agency
(http://www.epa.gov/oamcinc1/rfpcover.htm)
- Record
- SN00035940-W 20020307/020305213335 (fbodaily.com)
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