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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JUNE 27,1997 PSA#1876

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Contracts Management Division (MD-33), Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

A -- CLEAN AIR STATUS AND TRENDS NETWORK (CASTNET-II) SOL PR-NC-97-10300 POC Teresa Ward, Contract Specialist, (919) 541-2311; Vickie Presnell, Contracting Officer, (919) 541-3002 WEB: Click here to visit the site that has information about this solicitation, http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist via E-mail., ward.teresa@epamail.epa.gov. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking a contractor to continue the operating of an existing network of air monitoring stations that collect data for determining the deposition of dry acid precipitation and wet acid precipitation and to expand that network adding sites and extending into measurements of visibility, acid aerosols, toxic pollutants, and perhaps factors related to global climate and stratospheric ozone. The Base Program will consist of operating Forty (40) of the current operational sites. Nineteen (19) of these sites will include sampling for wet deposition. The options for the completion portion will consist of Options A through F. Option A is continuous ozone monitoring at the 40 base sites. Option B is micro-meteorological measurements at 40 base sites. Option C is fine particulate sampling and analysis at 25 sites. Option D is continuous monitoring for NO and NOy at 25 sites. Option E is NH3 monitoring at 25 sites. Option F establishes CASTNet Monitoring Stations at newlocations. The contractor shall be responsible for all aspects of operation and establishment of the network including arranging for site use and providing operators to service samplers, sample analysis, transmit data and maintain equipment. The current network involves collection of samples by drawing air through a filter pack and the use of continuous ozone monitors and an array of meteorological equipment. Each site is characterized by land use, leaf area, and other vegetation factors. This will be done for new sites and updated for existing sites. The contractor will procure, test, prepare, package, track and ship sampling media to each site, and receive, store, extract, chemically analyze and archive samples. Quality control procedures are applied to field, laboratory and data collection operations and confirmed by a quality control program. Data from field sampling, operator observations, calibrations, and quality assurance checks, are collected, validated, stored, and delivered to EPA. Data are analyzed and interpreted and summarized in a report by the Contractor. Network documentation related to procurement, testing, site selection, installation, initiation, field operation, sample analysis, data management, quality assurance, training, and any other documentation of existing activities must be prepared, maintained and updated as necessary. Expansion of the network will involve site selection, assurances that site selection requirements are met, and establishing new CASTNet monitoring stations in remote areas of the U.S. EPA anticipates that up to 30 additional new sites may be added during the course of the contract. RFP No. PR-NC-97-10300 for the effort, will be issued on or about September 15, 1997 as full and open competition. EPA anticipates the award of a Completion type effort to operate the sites and Options A -- F and a Level of Effort (LOE) portion with work assignments for a total of 57,000 labor hours consisting of a base requirement of 10,000 for the LOE portion. In addition, the contractwill allow for four twelve-month options as follows: Option I -- 11,000; Option 2 -- 11,500; Option 3 -- 12,000; and Option 4 -- 12,500. A pre-proposal conference will be held approximately two or two and one half weeks after the RFP is issued. More information about the pre-proposal conference will be provided in the solicitation. SIC No. 8733 applies; size standard is $5M in average annual receipts over the last three years. This requirement is a follow-on to contract number 68D20134 with Environmental Science and Engineering, Inc., which will expire on July 31, 1998. Proposals will be due sixty (60) days after the RFP issuance date. The solicitation and amendments will be available via the Internet World Wide Web at http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd. Firms are encouraged to access the solicitation and amendments via Internet. If you will be obtaining a copy of the solicitation via Internet, it will be your responsibility to frequently check the same site where the solicitation is posted for any amendments. Firms who do not have the capability to obtain the solicitation from Internet, may submit a written request for a diskette with the solicitation in WordPerfect 6.1 format from the contact point at the address above; however, only those firms who do NOT have the capability to obtain the solicitation from the Internet should request diskettes. Diskettes will not be sent to those firms who have Internet access. If you request a diskette of the solicitation, you will receive amendments by mail, unless you notify us otherwise. Only one copy shall be sent to a corporate entity, regardless of the number of requests from one or more different geographic locations. A copy of the preliminary source list will be issued to all prospective offerors along with the solicitation on the internet/diskette. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the Agency. Telephone and fax requests will not be honored. See Numbered Note 26. (0176)

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