MODIFICATION
F -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICAL HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH OIL AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RELEASES
- Notice Date
- 10/3/2007
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Region Acquisition Division, 7600 Sand Point Way, Northeast, Seattle, WA, 98115-6349, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- AB133C-08-RP-0002
- Response Due
- 10/9/2007
- Archive Date
- 10/24/2007
- Point of Contact
- Sharon Kent, Contract Specialist, Phone (206) 526-6035, Fax (206) 526-6025
- E-Mail Address
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sharon.s.kent@noaa.gov
- Description
- Location of Work: Most incidents occur within the coastal regions of the U.S. and its territories, but international travel has occurred in the past. The contractor shall have the ability to respond to international incidents if required. NOTICE: THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. The information provided in response to this notice will assist the Government in determining the extent of the business size and socio-economic market for the type of work described herein. All firms qualified, capable, and interested, without restriction to size standards, should submit the requested information. The intent of the announcement is to identify sources that are qualified business concerns able to will provide technical and scientific support to NOAA, Office of Response & Restoration (ORR) on an as-needed basis. There are four major tasks required in the proposed contract: A) Incident Response & Incident Response Preparation, B) Training, C) Research and Development, and D) Analytical and Laboratory Support. The proposed Contractor shall provide support on both an emergency and non-emergency time frame. A higher percentage of effort will be for non-time critical support, but the ability of the contractor to respond quickly during an emergency event is critical to ORR?s mission and paramount to the fulfillment of the contractor?s obligations. The focus of the technical and scientific support is chemistry related issues during hazardous material and petroleum spills, but ORR may support all hazards missions such as disaster responses and port security contingency planning issues that involve chemical risks. The contractor shall provide augmented support to ORR staff scientist and Scientific Support Coordinators. Task A ? Perform 24-hr., 7 days a week (24/7) spill response. Must respond to calls from ORR within one-hour of the initial contact and be able to provide support directly by verbal consultation or have access to the resources required to investigate the request and provide follow-up communications both verbally and in writing. Provide oral and written reports as required, reflecting information or specific support requested. A common request will be a concise assessment of the hazards associated with the spilled chemical, the transport and fate of the chemical relative to the specific incident environment, and any unique or scenario-specific concerns. Such reports are generally defined as Chemical Hazard Assessments rather than risk assessment since they identify threats rather than probability. Other emergency requests might include recommendations for sampling or a review of proposed sampling and/or analytical protocols, or to recommend or review mitigation techniques. The general protocol for such support is to provide an initial oral report or discussion that is followed by written documentation (a report) that is electronically submitted a couple of hours later. The proposed contract will also be required to perform On-Scene Response Support, requiring travel to the site of the incident to provide direct consultation and technical/scientific support to federal response personnel and cleanup personnel on issues related to chemistry. In addition to direct consultation, field support activities may include field monitoring, sampling, and assessments. If the situation requires and a request is made, the contractor must be in route to the site of the emergency within 24-hours of request. Most incidents occur within the coastal regions of the U.S. and its territories, but international travel has occurred in the past. The contractor shall maintain the ability to respond internationally if requested. The contractor shall contribute to spill preparedness activities including drills and the production of spill response planning documents such as Area Contingency Plans as requested. The contractor?s role shall include the assessment of the hazards associated with chemicals that might be released into the environment. Task B - The proposed contractor shall develop training materials and conduct training and workshops as requested. Training may be requested as part of planned activities across the U.S. and its territories or at the contractor?s base of operations. On rare occasions, a workshop or training activity will require travel outside of the U.S. Task C - The proposed contractor shall provide technical support in the area of chemistry as required to support ORR in its mission critical activities. This may require the contractor to develop, manage, and perform research projects, as well as contribute to the projects managed by ORR personnel. The following represents possible assignments: design and conduct experiments and field test to further the scientific knowledge of the chemical hazards in the environment; development of measurement technologies to detect and quantify dispersed oil; evaluate alternative spill response countermeasures such as solidifying agents. Results from these efforts shall be documented in written reports and publications, and may influence ORR response and restoration strategies. Task D - The proposed contractor shall provide analytical support for the analysis of environmental samples contaminated with petroleum and/or petroleum products to determine the relevant physical characteristics, short-term fate, and apparent toxicity of the oil based on the relative distribution of PAH. Analytical support may extend into the identification of other chemical pollutants or unknowns, but will not extend to the analysis of any known highly dangerous samples that would be outside the scope of work for a typical commercial laboratory. The proposed contractor must be able to assess the quality of the data from the chemical analyses provided and interpret the results in terms of its implications to operational decisions. Emergency response may require time-critical analytical support for a limited number of samples and may require completion of the requested analyses and preliminary reporting within 24 hours of sample receipt. Non-emergency analytical support that is associated with ORR research activities and natural resource damage assessment surveys will have task-defined schedules. Environmental samples may include water, sediments, and animal tissues. Routinely requested laboratory support functions are as follows: -Chemical characterization and compositional analysis of reference oils and spilled oil samples by GC/MS. Compositional analysis would include the quantification of selected alkanes and PAHs common to oil and typically monitored during oil spill events. -The proposed contractor must understand oil chemistry and posses the ability to interpret analytical data such that a fingerprint determination between an unknown and reference to determine if they are derived from a common source. -The laboratory support element must include the ability at assess key physical property data such as density and viscosity of reference and spilled oil samples. -Assess a spilled oil?s applicability to the application of chemical dispersants. It is anticipated that a firm-fixed price, labor hour or time-and-material task order IDIQ type contract will be for the eventual solicitation. The North American Industry Classification Code (NAICS) is 541990 with a size standard of $6.5 M. All contractors doing business with the Government are now required to be registered with the Central Contractor Registry (CCR). NOTE: THIS SYNOPSIS IS NOT CONSIDERED A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL BUT A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. No solicitation document is available. No contract will be awarded on the basis of responses received to this notice. Interested firms should submit in writing, its name, address, point of contact, telephone number, BUSINESS TYPE AND SIZE, and a brief narrative regarding its capability to provide the required services. The following is the information that must be addressed in the response to assist the Government in determining the availability of qualified small business concerns for the requirement: Demonstrate relevant experience, expertise, and qualifications of key personnel in the basic design system and deployment of the system. It is the Government?s intent to analyze responses from firms which can operate in the areas of consideration as specified above. Detailed information must be submitted by mail to the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, WRAD, 7600 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98115-6349, ATTN: Sharon S. Kent, or to the email address below by 12:00 noon, October 9, 2007. Questions of any nature may be addressed in writing to Sharon.S.Kent@noaa.gov. NO TELEPHONE INQUIRIES WILL BE HONORED. Submission information will be reviewed by the Government to determine the level of competition, i.e., small business set-aside, full and open competition.
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