SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Support for Conducting Systems and Performance Surveys of National Atmospheric Monitoring Stations
- Notice Date
- 5/1/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Bid and Proposal Room, Ariel Rios Building (3802R) 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20460
- ZIP Code
- 20460
- Solicitation Number
- PR-HQ-06-13934
- Response Due
- 5/16/2006
- Archive Date
- 6/15/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking technical support for the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), Office of Atmospheric Programs (OAP) in the Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD). It is anticipated that the Contractor will be required to provide a quality assurance program to evaluate and document the performance of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP). Primary support of this contract shall be to provide in-field systems and performance survey services (herein after referred to as surveys) to assess and aid the performance and maintenance of the nationwide, long-term wet deposition monitoring networks of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP). NADP collection stations are currently comprised in three sub-networks which include: precipitation chemistry and wet deposition sites in the National Trends Network (NTN); precipitation chemistry and wet deposition sites in the Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network (AIRMoN); and measurements of mercury concentrations in precipitation at wet deposition sites in the Mercury Deposition Network (MDN). There are currently over 250 wet deposition sites in the NADP/NTN, over 90 sites in the NADP/MDN, including over 40 that are collocated at NTN sites, and 8 sites in NADP/AIRMoN, including three that are collocated at NTN sites. NADP operates sites throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands. EPA provides support to the National Acid Deposition Program (NADP), a cooperative, multi-agency network, which measures precipitation chemistry and estimates atmospheric deposition for various pollutant ions and mercury. The surveys are undertaken to provide quality assurance pertaining to siting, sample collection and handling, equipment operation and maintenance, record keeping, reports and field laboratory procedures. Site performance survey reports for the networks must be compatible with, and capable of, being electronically transferred to the data base maintained by NADP. The surveys are essential to providing the quality assurance for NADP?s data analysis and require a high level of skill in audits of air quality monitoring systems and quality assurance, quality control, and data management. The contractor will be responsible for selecting sites for survey and initial communications, making pre-trip travel and other preparations, conducting site surveys, providing technical assistance to site operators, and conducting maintenance. It is anticipated that the resultant contract will be firm-fixed price with a one-year base period and four one-year option periods. The RFP will be issued on or around May 16, 2006 with proposals due 30 days after issuance of the solicitation. This requirement is a total small business set aside. The applicable NAICS code is 541620 with a size standard of $6.5 million. As it becomes available, information regarding this procurement will be posted at http://www.epa.gov/oam/hpod. In an effort to streamline communications to the maximum extent possible, the subject RFP, amendments and other related items for this procurement will be posted at this same web site. Offerors must download the RFP and related documents from the Internet as no printed copies will be available. Questions regarding the procurement may be e-mailed to the Contracting Officer at roberson.denise@epa.gov. Telephonic requests for information will not be honored.
- Web Link
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The Environmental Protection Agency
(http://www.epa.gov/oam/solicit)
- Record
- SN01038629-W 20060503/060501220848 (fbodaily.com)
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