SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Technical Support for BASINS and the Water Quality Standards Program
- Notice Date
- 3/11/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Cincinnati Procurement Operations Division 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive Cincinnati, OH 45268
- ZIP Code
- 45268
- Solicitation Number
- PR-CI-10-10542
- Response Due
- 3/26/2010
- Archive Date
- 4/25/2010
- Point of Contact
- CANDICE R. CHARLTON, Contract Specialist, Phone: 513-487-2007, E-Mail: charlton.candice@epa.gov; SANDRA STARGARDT-LICIS, Placement Contracting Officer, E-Mail: licis.sandy@epa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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CANDICE R. CHARLTON
(charlton.candice@epa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS FOR CAPABILITIES STATEMENTS ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is performing a ?market search? for businesses in preparation for a future procurement. Any interested firm should submit a Capabilities Statement with information which clearly demonstrates their capabilities to provide the services described below. Standard company brochures will not be considered a sufficient response to this Sources Sought Synopsis. It is anticipated that any future contract for these services will be a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) Level-of-Effort (LOE) type contract with five one-year periods, each period will have approximately 23,750 LOE hours including increased quantity options. The applicable NAICS code is 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services) with a size standard of $7 million. The capabilities statement shall provide the firm?s current size status for the above referenced NAICS code, (large or small) and whether the firm is a SBA certified Hubzone or 8(a)/Small Disadvantaged contractor. The firm shall also indicate if it is Woman-owned, Veteran-owned or Service-Disabled Veteran owned. As a reminder, small businesses are required to perform at least 50 percent of the costs of the contract performance with their own personnel (FAR 52.219-14). The EPA reserves the right to set this action aside for small businesses. The EPA has a need for a firm to provide technical support for the BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources) Application and the Water Quality Standards Program in support of the Standards and Health Protection Division (SHPD), under the Office of Science and Technology (OST) within EPA?s Office of Water (OW). SHPD has multiple responsibilities under the Clean Water Act of 1987 (CWA) to include directing the national program for adoption of Water Quality Standards, developing prevention and remediation strategies to reduce the risk to human health and aquatic life resulting from contaminated fish and sediment, and microbial pathogens in surface waters, providing technical support to the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program, and preparing outreach and awareness materials including developing instructional material and presenting workshops. Many of SHPD?s efforts have benefited from the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies, which captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that are linked to a location; particularly as implemented in the application known as BASINS. Over the past decade OW has managed the development of GIS technologies, capabilities, and databases to support programmatic activities. The wide availability of GIS compatible data makes it possible to provide more complete data support for many water quality and watershed models which, assess and simulate water quality and flow, by linking the GIS-based data to the models integrated in BASINS. The PC-based GIS system is designed to be used by managers and analysts who need to work with spatial data but do not need to perform the more complex GIS manipulations. EPA has used such a system with appropriate GIS data layers and models to develop the BASINS application, which is useful in assessing the integrated effects of point and nonpoint pollutants releases on water quality. BASINS provides techniques that may be used in many ways including selecting industries for study, delineating impacted aquatic ecosystems, prioritizing regulatory options, developing watershed assessments and nonpoint source controls, facilitating watershed-level National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting, and contributing to overall programmatic management. Technical support services in the following task areas will be necessary for this effort:1. Professional programming assistance for the BASINS application support and development 2. Providing training, workshops, conferences specific to the various models and related computer operations3. Technical support/instruction to the users of the water quality models4. Develop methodologies and identify and obtain requisite data layers to fully support watershed assessment modeling analyses using BASINS technologies as appropriate5. Technical support for developing web pages/sites, updating web-based materials, and other web-based features as appropriate to the support of the BASINS list serve A contractor interested in submitting a capabilities statement in regard to this effort should specifically address sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5 of the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) which can be obtained from the EPA?s Office of Acquisition Management website, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd/. The successful contractor of any resultant contract will be expected to provide all necessary labor, materials, and facilities in support of the efforts delineated by the PWS. Responses should be submitted to charlton.candice@epa.gov no later than 15 calendar days from the date of posting. A separate synopsis will be issued for the Request for Proposals (RFP), resulting from this Sources Sought Synopsis.
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