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D -- MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF NATIONAL ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND CLEAN CITIES HOTLINE SOL DW-100 DUE 042597 POC K. Flanagan Roque, Subcontract Administrator, 303.275.3124, Dan Cornell, Contracting Officer/Director, Acquisition Services Center, 303.384.7549 WEB: Alternative Fuels Data Center, http://www.afdc.nrel.gov. E-MAIL: Acquisition Services/Center for Transportation and Technology Systems, roquek@tcplink.nrel.gov. Sources Sought -- Under the Alternative Motor Fuels Act of 1988, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, and the Energy Policy Act of 1992, the federal government has demonstrated its resolve to promote the use of alternative fuels and alternative fuel vehicles, to clean up our environment, and to promote the goals of reaching energy independence and security. In tandem with the influence that such legislation has had on the stimulation of the alternative fuels industry is the need to support this legislation and generate public interest by providing a national focal point where people may call or contact an organization electronically to have questions answered on all aspects of alternative fuels. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been designated "Program Manager" by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to implement various parts of AMFA (1988) and the national Energy Policy Act (1992). The alternative fuels 'hotline' function falls under the responsibility of NREL. NREL is seekingorganizations that might have the capability to manage and operate an alternative fuels and Clean Cities hotline. The basic hotline operation tasks are to provide knowledgeable hotline operators/experts in the field of alternative fuels, where the representation of fuel neutrality is a must. The operators must be capable of answering questions from callers and electronic mail using: 1) expertise gained by having worked in the alternative fuel field, 2) searches of various databases, such as NREL's document database of alternative fuel documents; 3) referrals to known experts in the alternative fuel field. Requests are processed in a real-time environment through Web access to search the caller database to determine whether or not a caller is a previous caller to the system and to verify/update their information, and to enter requests for information into the system that will be automatically processed and distributed at NREL. Organizations which respond to this Sources Sought request will have the following capabilities, attributes, skills: 1) the organization will demonstrate an historical involvement in, and extensive knowledge of, the alternative fuels industry. The organization will indicate the number of personnel within their organization that have extensive knowledge of the alternative fuels industry. 2) The organization will show that is has significant contacts and resources in alternative fuels areas by demonstrating its involvement in conferences and events as panelists, speakers, or exhibitors. 3) The organization will show a high comfort level in working on the Internet and will describe its access/connectivity to the Web, preferably by havings its own Internet IP address with high-speed connectivity to the Web. 4) The organization is expected to have a good working knowledge of Unix, including the use of the 'vi' editor; knowledge of the Oracle relational database management system (RDBMS), preferably including the use of SQL*Plus, and a demonstrated means of interfacing over the Web to NREL's stored information in Oracle tables. The organization will demonstrate that it can produce reports and reduce tabular information to summary data for use in generating monthly reports to NREL and specialized reports that can be generated, as needed, from the information stored about calls and requests in the Oracle RDBMS. 5) The organization will provide a list of publications in the alternative fuels area that it has produced. Any organizations which might be interested in working with NREL to manage and operate a national alternative fuels hotline should mail or fax a list of qualifications to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393, ATTN: K. Flanagan Roque. TELEPHONE INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The list of qualifications should be responsive to the items listed above. This synopsis is NOT a request for proposal.***** (0084)

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