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B -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR THE MONITORING PROGRAM SOL PR-CI-97-10295 POC Richard Makepeace, (513) 366-2044 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts Management Division, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: U.S. EPA -- Cincinnati Contracts Management Division, makepeace.richard@epamail.epa.gov. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Water (OW), Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds (OWOW), Assessment and Watershed Protection Division (AWPD) has a requirement for a support services contract. This contract will support AWPD in its mission to monitor water quality, manage and display water quality information, assess water quality conditions, and report on those conditions to the public and Congress. Major support activities will include: developing tools, guidance and procedures for water quality monitoring; enhancing water quality assessment and reporting, including computerized water quality reporting capabilities (the Waterbody System); outreach and education on water quality conditions; assessing and developing local/state participation programs; electronic communications via the Internet; supporting existing computerized data management systems (EPA's STOrage and RETrieval System, STORET); developing and supporting spatial assessment information, including enhancements to geographic information systems and geographic indexing of waterbodies; developing small PC-based applications for tracking activities; and collecting and sharing water quality information. The EPA anticipates a cost type, level of effort contract, for a base period of one year and two option periods of one year each for a total contract period of performance of three years. Each contract period will consist of approximately 33,000 professional man-hours with options for an additional 16,500 professional man-hours per period. All responsible sources who submit a proposal will be considered by the Agency. Solicitation PR-CI-97-10295 will appear on the internet. It may be accessed through the EPA's home page on the World Wide Web (www.epa.gov). The direct link URL is http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. It is anticipated that this RFP will be available in mid March, 1997. Only a limited number of hard copies of the solicitation will be available on a first come first serve basis. See Note 26. (0050)

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