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A -- MICROBIAL DEGRADATION OF TCE FROM CONTAMINATED SOILS AFTER ELECTROKINETICS USING HORIZONAL LASAGNA (TM) SOL PR-OH-97-0373 POC Ruby Sugg (513) 366-2146 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts Mgmt. Division, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: Ruby Sugg, Cincinnati Contracts Management Division, sugg.ruby@epamail.epa.gov. The US EPA intends to award a purchase order to University of Cincinnati's College of Engineering's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Center for GeoEnvironmental Science and Technology (UC) on a sole source basis to develop the microbially active horizonal LASAGNA(tm) system. The objectives of this project is to enhance the degradation of TCE from contaminated soils by the application of methanotrophic TCE degrading microbiological cultures in horizonal LASAGNA(tm). This will be accomplished by: designing and adjusting the system, sampling, and evaluating the results of the process, co-authoring and publishing at least one paper in a peer reviewed journal. Two controls will also be examined, a horizonal iron fracture, and a natural attenuated site as part of EPA's field study at the site. This action is being pursued on a sole source basis because UC is currently the only contractor that has a legal agreement to practice or research LASAGNA(tm) from Monsanto, DuPont, and General Electric as well as have a legal agreement to research LASAGNA (tm) with the US EPA. EPA intends to award this requirement under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Interested respondents must submit written capability statements and resumes demonstrating as a minimum: (1.) Successfully designed and placed horizonal electrokinetic fractures as in the LASAGNA(tm) process, (2.) Successfully designed and placed horizonal bioremediation fractures as in the LASAGNA(tm) Process, (3.) Successfully developed TCE degrading methanotrophic consortiums, (4.) Successfully feed methane to TCE degrading methanotrophic consortiums that have been inoculated into horizonal bioremediation fractures, (5.) Successfully performed electroosmosis with in situ horizonal fractures as in the LASAGNA(tm) Process, (6.) Successfully monitored such systems and modified them to optimize results, (7.) Successfully analyzed TCE from soil samples, other by-products, TCE degraders, methanotrophs, soil pH and moistures. (8.) Currently hold a legalagreement to practice or research LASAGNA(tm) from Monsanto, DuPont, and General Electric. Telephonic responses and responses providing insufficient information for evaluation will not be considered. This synopsis is not a presolicitation notice. See numbered Note 22. (0157)

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