Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land, 2200 Churchill road, P.O. box 19276, Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276

F -- EMERGENCY AND PLANNED CORRECTIVE ACTION CONTRACTOR ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) is seeking the services of a qualified Corrective Action Contractor(s) to perform emergency and planned corrective action work at contaminated sites throughout the State of Illinois. This work will be funded in part by Federal funds and in part by State funds. The contractor(s) must have the equipment, personnel, and expertise to satisfactorily remediate Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) sites and other waste removal situations. In addition, contractors must be able to mobilize and respond to all emergency petroleum LUST situations anywhere in the State of Illinois within 24 to 48 hours frm notification. The procurement will conform to regulations referenced in 40 CFR 35, Subpart 0, the Illinois Purchasing Act, and procedures of the IEPA to encourage the use of small, minority, and women's business contractors (if subcontractors are used) and the contractor shall document this effort. Also, bidders should comply with the President's Executive Order No. 11246, as amended. The successful contractor(s) will be subject to all applicable Federal and State laws and regulations, including but not limited to the David-Bacon Wage Act and related Federal Labor Acts and to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/0-130/12). The submission of a proposal by the Offeror in response to this RFP constitutes an acknowledgement of and an agreement by the Offeror that they understand and will comply with the Davis-Bacon Wage Act, related Federal Labor Acts and the Illinois prevailing Wage Act. If a payment and/or performance bond is required in connection with this contract, said bond shall specifically provide that the Principal must pay all sums of money due or to become due for any labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Wage Act or the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act which ever is applicable. Interested firms may obtain a Request for Proposal (RFP) package through February 24, 1995 at no charge from: Address above. The IEPA will not accept requests for RFP's after February 24, 1995. Prospective offerors should carefully examine the RFP package, complete the technical, financial and cost portions of the package and submit them so as to arrive at the IEPA no later than 5:00 p.m. CST, March 17, 1995. All proposal packages received by the IEPA after that time and date will be returned unopened to the offerors, and the offerors will be deemed nonresponsive for this procurement. The IEPA will uniformly and objectively evaluate and rate the following major qualifications of each prime contractor according to the information supplied in their respective Statements of Technical Qualifications: Evaluation Criteria: 1. Work Experience and Performance. Evaluation Scoring % 45%. 2. Personnel Qualifications: 35%. 3. Equipment: 20%. The IEPA will also evaluate all financial and cost proposals in accordance with predetermined objective criteria and will negotiate costs with the firms determined to be the best technically qualified. These best technically qualified firms will then be required to submit best and final offers for their costs. Contracts shall be awarded to the technically qualified responsive, responsible offerors with the lowest, best and final cost proposals. The award of any contract to perform the proposed work is subject to the availability of State and Federal funds. The offerors should realize that any delay in receivning legislative or grant authority may result in a delay in awarding the contract. (012)

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