SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Technical and Regulatory Support for the Development of Criteria for Water Media (Ecological Emphasis)
- Notice Date
- 12/21/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Cincinnati Procurement Operations Division 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive Cincinnati, OH 45268
- ZIP Code
- 45268
- Solicitation Number
- PR-CI-08-10127
- Response Due
- 1/11/2008
- Archive Date
- 2/10/2008
- Point of Contact
- DAVID H. PLAGGE, Contract Specialist, Phone: (513) 487-2022, E-Mail: plagge.david@epa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to DAVID H. PLAGGE
(plagge.david@epa.gov)
- 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 a "market search" for large and small businesses in preparation for a future procurement. The EPA has a need for a contractor to provide its Office of Water?s Office of Science and Technology (OST) support in developing effluent guidelines; ecological criteria; ecological assessment and diagnostic tools; risk assessment methodologies; limits for pollutants in various water media and sewage sludge. It also requires support in providing assistance to States and Tribes as they implement their water quality standards programs in order for OST to meet one of its crucial missions. The specific purpose of the resultant contract would be for the contractor to provide technical and regulatory support services to the Health and Ecological Criteria Division (HECD) in OST to develop, revise, and implement ecological criteria for the protection of water quality on a national, state, and site-specific basis. Activities in support of this purpose might include: SCIENTIFIC/TECHNICAL SUPPORT - conducting toxicological reviews - conducting national and site-specific ecological hazard assessments - conducting national and site-specific ecological risk assessments - performing statistical analyses - evaluating national and site-specific methods for ecological criteria development - evaluating national and site-specific ecological impacts of pollutants - evaluating national and site-specific risk assessment measurement endpoints - analyzing tissue, surface water, sediment, biosolids, and effluent samples for chemicals, microorganisms and nutrients - performing population modeling of chemical impacts on aquatic or aquatic-dependent species. - conducting laboratory toxicity tests and field studies - conducting biological assessments and laboratory taxonomic identifications - conducting toxicity tests in water and sediment - developing bioavailability, chemical fate, transport and effect and population model development and support - developing data bases - conducting GIS and other mapping - evaluating bioaccumulation potential, trophic transfer, calculating and applying bioaccumulation factors - sampling ambient waters, effluents, organism tissues, and biosolids for chemical analysis - conducting literature reviews, reviewing technical data, performing analyses and summarizing findings - conducting remote sensing - investigating, interpreting, and addressing experimental & emerging science: genomics, endocrine disruptors, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, prions, nanotechnology, immunosupression, etc. - implementing knowledge and experience in the use and application of EPA national and site-specific guidance methodologies for the development of water quality criteria DOCUMENTATION SUPPORT - preparing national and site-specific ecological criteria documents in standard EPA format - preparing national and site-specific technical information documents - preparing national and site-specific technical support documents for methods, criteria, and regulations - preparing the index of references for proposed and final regulations and other publications - organizing and summarizing comments on proposed regulations and other publications - preparing presentation materials - arranging and conducting workshops - preparing public outreach, brochures, fliers, etc - performing technical writing - providing Water Quality Standard (WQS) Academy instruction and technical presentations - developing non-technical summaries of documents for the general public - developing non-technical briefing material for senior managers - organizing literature reviews and references in an alphabetized or chronological or subject area order - peer review In keeping with the potential tasks, contractors submitting capabilities statements should address their ability to provide, or have access to, senior technical experts in: aquatic toxicology, aquatic chemistry, sediment toxicology, ecotoxicology, statistics, bioaccumulation, nutrients and nutrification, biological assessment, biocriteria, aquatic biology, wildlife toxicology, embedded sediments and suspended sediments, biosolids risk assessment, fate and effects and transport modeling, geochemical speciation modeling, aquatic life criteria development, and other criteria development derivation procedures to provide technical expertise to HECD and its customers. The successful contractor shall provide all necessary labor, materials, facilities, and services in support of the efforts. It is anticipated that the contract will be a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) Level of Effort (LOE) starting in December 2008 with a one year Base Period and four Optional Periods of 12 months each. Approximately 15,000 LOE hours are anticipated for each contract period with contractor?s needing to provide as much as an additional 15,000 hours for a total of 150,000 hours in total for all periods if all the potential LOE hours are realized. The applicable NAICS code is 541690 with a size standard of $6,500,000. In the previous acquisition, EPA restricted the following types of firms from receiving award due to an inherent conflict of interest posed by the implications of the products to be produced under the contract: firms that were chemical producers/importers; pesticide or agricultural products producers/importers; and waste management/ waste disposal firms. Any interested firms 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 should provide their size status for the above referenced NAICS code, (i.e. large, small) and whether or not they are a certified Hubzone, 8(a), women-owned, small disadvantaged and/or disabled veteran owned concern. The EPA reserves the right to set this action aside for small businesses if it determines that there are two or more small businesses able to compete in terms of market prices, quality, and delivery. If set aside, a small business would be required to perform at least 50 percent of the direct labor costs incurred under the contract with their own personnel (FAR 52.219-14). Capability statements from small businesses should address their ability to meet this requirement. Responses to the above should be submitted to David Plagge, USEPA, 26 West Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268, or plagge.david@epa.gov) no later than 21 calendar days from date of posting. A separate synopsis will be issued for the Request for Proposal (RFP) resulting from this sources source synopsis. The EPA is also interested in soliciting ideas that firms may have as to the appropriate means of incentivizing contractor performance from a contractor?s perspective. Firms may provide suggestions for EPA consideration as to appropriate performance incentives.
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