SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- RFQ-W-13-0005
- Notice Date
- 6/14/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 812990
— All Other Personal Services
- Contracting Office
- SRRPODUS Environmental Protection AgencyAriel Rios Building1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.Mail Code: 3805RWashingtonDC20460USA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-DC-13-00073
- Archive Date
- 8/18/2013
- Point of Contact
- Elaine M. Scott
- E-Mail Address
-
Scott.Elaine@epa.gov
(Scott.Elaine@epa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This solicitation is being issued pursuant to the personal services contracting authority granted by Congress in the Consolidated Appropriation Resolution for 2003 (P.L. 108-7). A firm-fixed-price purchase order will be issued to the successful student or recent graduate selected for the position. The base period of performance for this purchase order is for a period of twelve months. This solicitation includes the following four attachments: ATTACHMENT 1 - Statement of Work (SOW) and Associated Attachments ATTACHMENT 2 - Evaluation Factors ATTACHMENT 3 - Student Proposal Form ATTACHMENT 4- Applicable Clauses ? Additional Terms and Conditions of the Order In an effort to clarify the terms student and recent graduate, the definitions of each are provided below. A student is an individual, at least 18 years of age, who is enrolled, in good standing, in a degree program (actively seeking a degree) at a recognized educational institution. A student is not required to carry a full course load, as long as the individual is a bona fide student, not merely someone who signed up for a class in order to work under these contract arrangements. A recent graduate is an individual, at least 18 years of age, who has graduated with a degree from a college or university within the last two years. The Government will make contract award based on evaluation factors other than price which will consider the following: Total number of projects relevant to the development, testing and applying of software program code for simulation models in air quality assessment (BlueSky, CMAQ, CAMx, etc.), ecohydrology (SWAT, RHESSys, BASINS, VELMA, etc.), or related fields of environmental science; Total months of relevant employment/volunteer services for preceding; Total number of published works relating to the application of simulations models in the environmental sciences (this includes theses, peer-reviewed journal publications, and published meeting abstracts); Grade Point Averages for undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees; Total course hours in computer science or related coursed requiring program code development in C, C++, FORTRAN, JAVA, Perl or similar programming languages; Total months of work experience in computer program code development in C, C++, JAVA, Perl o r similar programming languages; Total course hours in the use of data management and analysis software, including MS Access, Excel R for statistical computing, PostGreSQL, or similar software; Total course hours in the use of spatial data visualization systems, including ArcGIS/ArcMAP, GRASS, ENVISION, or similar software. Submissions in response to this solicitation must be submitted on or before 4:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, July 19th, 2013 via e-mail to Contracting Officer Percy Jones at jones.percy@epa.gov and Contract Specialist Dionne Wright at wright.dionne@epa.gov. All email submissions must have RFQ-W-13-005 in the subject line. Late submissions will not be considered eligible for award and incomplete submission may not be considered at the Contracting Officer?s discretion. No telephone inquiries will be accepted in response to this solicitation. Prior to applying for this position, applicants are encouraged to visit the following web page to access information related to this announcement: http://www.epa.gov/oam/srpod/. Please follow the link located under the ?Announcements? header, entitled RFQ-W-13-0005?Student Services Contract and review all of the attached documents. You are encouraged to visit this webpage periodically to check the status of this announcement and to see whether or not any amendments (changes to the requirement of the posted position) have been issued. Foreign national students are required to fulfill all of the requirements outlined in the eligibility section of this announcement.
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