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B -- PESTICIDE HEALTH EFFECTS DATA REVIEW, EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT SOL PR-HQ-97-10656 DUE 080497 POC Gerald Alston, 202-260-2358 E-MAIL: click here to contact the POC via e-mail, alston.gerald@epamail.epa.gov. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a requirement for contractor support in the area of Pesticide Health Effects Data Review, Evaluation and Assessment. This requirement will provide technical/scientific support for the review and evaluation of toxicological and pharmacological studies reporting tests of pesticides in laboratory animals, clinical reports, monitoring and epidemiological studies, and accidental pesticide exposure incident studies. These studies are submitted to EPA under the Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, Fungicide Act(FIFRA) as amended in 1988 and the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1997. In addition, this requirement will provide for the development and/or evaluation of new procedures or methodologies for testing pesticides for human health effects, the conduct of expert reviews of complex science issues, and the data extraction/entry of toxicological data into computerized data bases. The principal products of the contract resulting from this procurement will be Data Evaluation Reports (DERs). This procurement is a 100% small business set aside. It is anticipated that the resulting cost-plus fixed-fee, level of effort type contract will have a Base Period of 12 months and four-12 month Optional Periods, each period will have a basic quantity of 18,280 hours. The applicable SIC Code is 8731. Prospective offerors shall submit a written request to the above address or E-MAIL request to Alston.Gerald@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV. A copy of the source list will be issued to all prospective offerors as an attachment to the solicitation. No telephonic or faxed request will be accepted. All responsible sources may submit a response which will be considered by the Agency. A limited number of copies are available on a first-come first-serve basis. Only one copy shall be issued to a corporate entity, regardless of the number of request from one or more different geographical locations. See numbered Note 1. (0184)

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