SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Technical and Regulatory Support for the Development of Criteria for Water Media
- Notice Date
- 3/7/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- CPODUS Environmental Protection Agency26 West Martin Luther King DriveMail Code: NWDCincinnatiOH45268USA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- SOL-CI-13-00016
- Response Due
- 3/28/2013
- Archive Date
- 4/27/2013
- Point of Contact
- Courtney Stallworth
- E-Mail Address
-
stallworth.courtney@epa.gov
(Stallworth.Courtney@epa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought Synopsis SOL-CI-13-00016 Technical and Regulatory Support for the Development of Criteria for Water Media (Ecological Emphasis) 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 the Office of Water?s Office of Science and Technology (OST), Health and Ecological Criteria Division (HECD), with support in its mission under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to protect the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation?s waters (e.g., protect them from the adverse impacts of chemicals, suspended and bedded sediments, microorganisms, and nutrients; assess and maintain the quality of biological communities; diagnose the causes of impacts) and address these components in media such as surface waters, wastewater, biosolids, and sediments. 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, microorganism, 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 bioavilability, 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 and emerging science: genomics, endocrine disruptors, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, prions, nanotechnology, immunosuppression, 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 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 -preparing peer review summaries and documents Please see attached draft Performance Work Statement for additional information concerning the anticipated tasks under the resultant contract. All interested parties are hereby invited to submit a capability statement of no more than fifteen (15) pages, and no smaller than 12 point font. In keeping with the potential tasks, interested parties submitting capabilities statements in response to this sources sought 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 nitrification, 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 2013 with a one year Base Period and four Optional Periods of 12 months each. Interested parties should include a discussion of the capability of their accounting system or ability to implement a cost accounting system required of a cost-type contract. Previous experience with cost-type government contracts should ve discussed. Approximately 15,000 LOE hours are anticipated for each contract period with contractor?s needing to provide as much as an additional 2,800 hours for a total of 84,000 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 $14,000,000. The resultant contract would be a follow-on to EP-C-09-001 with Great Lakes Environmental Center, Inc. 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 services to be provided 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 certified Hubzone, 8(a), women-owned, small disadvantaged and/or service 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 51 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 Courtney Stallworth, at Stallworth.courtney@epa.gov no later than 21 calendar days from date of this posting. A separate synopsis will be issued for the Request for Proposal (RFP) resulting from this sources sought 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.
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