SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Technical Support for Effluent Guidelines and Industrial Water Pollution Control
- Notice Date
- 8/15/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Contracts Management Division 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive Cincinnati, OH 45268
- ZIP Code
- 45268
- Solicitation Number
- PR-CI-06-10850
- Response Due
- 9/15/2006
- Archive Date
- 11/15/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology (OST), has a requirement for a contractor to provide technical support in the conduct of studies of industrial categories and to develop regulations applicable to industrial wastewater discharges. Under the Clean Water of 1972, the USEPA has responsibility to develop national regulations limiting the discharge of pollutants from industrial categories into the nation's waterways. Responsible offerors shall demonstrate an ability to provide the level of effort, material, equipment, and facilities necessary to provide timely, professional engineering, technical and administrative services in the conduct of studies and analysis under specific work assignments supporting the development of effluent guidelines and standards and industry studies. In addition, the contractor shall provide related technical services in evaluating pollution controls, discharges, identifying water pollution trading opportunities, quick turn-around research, literature search, document or transcript technical review and analysis of existing or proposed guidelines, development of guidance manuals, associated training and meeting support, outreach, and support to EPA in aiding with implementation of existing regulations and NPDES permits. In addition, contractor shall conduct analyses of new industrial wastewater regulations required by Executive Orders and prepare regulatory and administrative documents sufficient to comply with applicable requirements, such as, the Regulatory Flexibility/Small Business Regulatory Enforcement and Fairness Act, the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act, and Environmental Justice. The resulting contract will include management of multiple, concurrent work assignments which will require long-term as well as quick turn-around responses essential to the statutory responsibilities of the Office of Water. The proposed contract type will be a level-of-effort cost-plus-fixed-fee contract consisting of a base period performance of twelve months, followed by four (4) optional performance periods of 12 months each, for a total potential performance period of five (5) years. Each performance period will consist of a maximum amount of 25,000 professional direct labor hours, being, 2,500 base direct professional labor hours plus 22,500 optional quantity direct labor professional hours, for a maximum combined total of 125,000 direct labor professional hours, base and all optional quantities, over the five (5) year life of the contract. The standard EPAAR solicitation provisions (EPAAR 1552.209-70 and 1552.209-72) requiring an offeror to certify that it is unaware of any potential Conflict of Interest or to disclose any potential Conflict of Interest of which it is aware will be a part of the solicitation. The standard EPAAR solicitation provision (EPAAR 1552.209-71) requiring a contractor to make full disclosure of any actual or potential Conflict of Interest discovered after contract award will also be a part of the solicitation. In addition, the contractor shall be subject to the clause LIMITATION OF FUTURE CONTRACTING (EPAAR 1552.209-74), which may limit the contractor?s eligibility to perform work as a prime Contractor or subcontractor under an ensuing EPA contract, further, that for the life of this contract the contractor shall be ineligible to enter into a contract to perform work for any of the following types of firms unless otherwise authorized by the Contracting Officer: (1) Firms within the regulated community that discharge processed water or which provide treatment of wastewater or drinking water. (2) Firms that manufacture/sell/import water treatment chemicals and/or equipment, to include firms that manufacture/sell/import point-of-use or point-of-entry treatment devices. (3) Firms that provide advisory and/or technical services relating to waste minimization, waste management, and wastewater treatment and control for regulated industries. (4) Firms that act in a consulting, advisory, or legal capacity with, or for, firms trying to overturn or avoid application of effluent guidelines or regulations within the scope of this work could manipulate data outcomes to effect a particular determination in favor of their clients, and (5) Firms that own or operate community water systems. The requirement is 100% set-aside for small business. The applicable NAICS code is 541620 with a size standard of $6.522 million. The solicitation is expected to be posted to the internet on or about September 15, 2006, as Solicitation Number PR-CI-06-10850 and may be accessed through the EPA?s home page on the World Wide Web (www.epa.gov) or through the direct link URL: http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. No hard copies of the solicitation shall be provided. It is the responsibility of the offerors to frequently check the EPA website for updates or changes. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. See: Notes 1 and 26.
- Web Link
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The Environmental Protection Agency
(http://www.epa.gov/oam/solicit)
- Record
- SN01115947-W 20060817/060815222025 (fbodaily.com)
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