SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- HIGH PURITY TEFLON FILTER TESTING
- Notice Date
- 5/26/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Environmental Protection Agency, Oar Service Center/Oaqps, Rtp Procurement Operations Division, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
- ZIP Code
- 27711
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-RT-04-00297
- Response Due
- 6/10/2004
- Archive Date
- 7/10/2004
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact, Matt Ake, Purchasing Agent, Phone (919) 541-4826
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(ake.matt@epa.gov)
- Description
- NAICS Code: 541380 THIS IS A SYNOPSIS FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS. QUOTATIONS ARE BEING REQUESTED. The solicitation number is PM4053 and the solicitation is being issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ). A firm, fixed-price purchase order is anticipated to result from the award of this solicitation. This solicitation is 100 percent set aside for small business. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541380, which has a size standard of $10.0M to qualify as a small business. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina is responsible for procuring, testing and distributing Teflon filters of high purity to the State/local air pollution control agencies. The Teflon filters are used with a sampler to collect PM-2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal 2.5 micrometers) samples. This process assures filters with uniform characteristics and known quality assurance testing for the national particulate networks. EPA obtains the filters each year from a filter manufacturer and has them shipped to EPA for acceptance testing. The Teflon filters will be shipped from the manufacturer, to the Agency, in one lot packed in sets of 50 filters per container in suitable clear hard dust-tight non-contaminating plastic. The contractor shall then either pick up or arrange for the delivery of the filters from the Agency storage facility in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The contractor shall test 350 filters from the batch of Teflon filters provided by the manufacturer, where a batch is defined as the filters to be used in one calendar year, specified by the PO for acceptance testing by the physical and chemical test described in the statement of work. Filters for a specific year must be made from the same lot of raw materials for distribution to the states. All 350 filters shall be subjected to visual inspection tests and then a certain quantity shall be subjected to other tests described in the statement of work. If the acceptance testing confirms that the filters meet EPA's specifications for physical and chemical properties, the contractor shall ship the filters to the state/local air pollution control agencies as specified by the EPA. The contractor shall distribute approximately 267,000 filters to the state/local air pollution control agencies as soon as the testing has been completed and the filters are determined to be acceptable to EPA. The Government will make an award to the responsible offeror whose offer conforms to the solicitation and is most advantageous to the Government, cost or other factors considered. For this Request for Quotation, all evaluation factors other than cost or price when combined are significantly more important than cost or price. All offerors are to include with their offers a completed copy of provision 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications--Commercial Items. The completed Representations and Certifications should be included with the proposal. The following FAR clauses apply to this acquisition: 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items; 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders--Commercial Items and the following additional FAR clauses which are cited in Clause 52.212-5: 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity, 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans; 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers; 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; 52.222-41. All technical questions are to be forwarded via e-mail to the Contract Specialist at the following e-mail address: ake.matt@epa.gov. Offerors should review the Statement of Work and other information posted with this Request for Quotation on EPA's website at the following address: http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd. Arrow down to the REQUEST FOR QUOTATION section and click on the solicitation. Arrow down below that section to COMMERCIAL BUY CLAUSES AND FORMS which are provided for your convenience. Please submit two copies of the technical proposal and price proposal. For delivery via the US Postal Service: US Environmental Protection Agency Attention MATT AKE RTP Procurement Operations Division (E105-02) Research Triangle Park, NC 27711. For delivery via courier and hand carried: US Environmental Protection Agency Attention MATT AKE RTP Procurement Operations Division (E105-02) 4930 Page Road Durham NC, 27703. All offers are due by June 10, 2004, 11:00 a.m., EST. No telephonic or faxed requests will be honored.
- Record
- SN00593180-W 20040528/040526212459 (fbodaily.com)
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