U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Contracts Management Division, 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268-7001

B -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR REGULATORY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY SOL C500776T1 POC Contact Point, Richard Makepeace, (513)366-2044 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Cincinnati Contracts Management Division and the Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology, Engineering and Analysis Division have a requirement for support services connected with the study, technical documentation and regulation of hazardous and toxic wastes from direct discharges and sources discharging into municipal treatment systems from the Iron and Steel Industry. This will require the development of information relating to applicable levels of technology by evaluating, documenting, and verifying the full range of wastewater control and treatment technologies that may be available to a given industry, as well as the development of cost data for alternative pollution control options including pollution prevention options. This contract requires superior levels of technical expertise in the fields of chemical, environmental, metallurgical, civil, sanitary, and/or industrial engineering, and water pollution analysis and control. The complete effluent limitations guidelines and standards development process generally requires five to six years to accommodate the statutory and 1egal requirements including appropriate public participation and preparation of legally defensible technical documentation and records. Promulgated national effluent limitations guidelines and standards are typically challenged in court by industry and environmental groups. Judicial review of national guidelines generally requires two to three years. The Iron and Steel rulemaking technical support activity is new. EPA anticipates that the Iron and Steel regulation will be proposed in 1998, with final promulgation of the regulation anticipated by 2000. Therefore, the new contract will provide support from inception to completion of work supporting the proposal, response to comments, final promulgation, and any litigation. The resulting contract will require management of multiple, concurrent work assignments which will require long-term as well as quick turn-around responses essential to the statutory responsibilities of the Office of Water. The proposed contract will have a base period consisting of approximately 18 months with potentially as many as six serial options of 12 months each for a total potential performance period of seven and one half years. (The period in excess of five years is dependent upon the appropriate approval being obtained.) The base period will consist of 20,000 direct labor hours with an option for an additional 40,000 direct labor hours. The first serial option will consist of 15,000 direct labor hours with an option for an additional 30,000 direct labor hours. The second serial option will consist of 15,000 direct labor hours with an option for an additional 30,000 direct labor hours. The third serial option will consist of 10,000 direct labor hours with an option for an additional 20,000 direct labor hours. There is a possibility that there may be fourth, fifth, and sixth serial option years with 10,000, 4,000, and 4,000 direct hours respectively and quantity options for an additional 20,000, 8,000 and 8,000 direct hours respectively. A cost type, level of effort contract is anticipated. All responsible sources who submit a proposal will be considered by the Agency. All requests for RFP C500776T1 must be in writing to the above address or faxed to Richard Makepeace at 513/366-2004. NO TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL BE HONORED. (0223)

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