Oppts Contract Support Group, Environmental Protection Agency, Fairchild Building -- 7th Floor, 499 S. Capitol Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20024

A -- DEVELOPMENT OF AN OECD LEMNA (DUCKWEED) GROWTH INHIBITATION TEST GUIDELINE SOL HMR102 DUE 092697 POC Melissa Revely-Brown WEB: NOT AVAILABLE, NOT AVAILABLE. E-MAIL: NOT AVAILABLE, revely-brown.melissa@epamail.epa.gov. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing an intent to award for services to which the Government intends to award a firm fixed price contract using the Simplified Acquisition Procedures of FAR Part 13 to WRC Plc -- Henley Road Buck, SL7 2HD -- United Kindgom. The EPA is FACNET certified. NO PHONE CALLS ACCEPTED. Two copies of all proposals, for the following statement of work, should be delivered to the following address, (fax/e-mail copies will not be accepted): US EPA; 401 M Street, SW; Mail Code 3803R; Washington, DC 20460 Attn: Melissa Revely-Brown -- HANDCARRY TO: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW; Bid and Proposal Room -- 6th floor; Washington, DC 20003; Attn: Melissa Revely-Brown -- Due Date: 9/29/97, 1997; -- 2:30pm EST (Any proposal received after the due date will not be considered or opened.) Quotes are due in writing no later than 15 days of notice of this solicitation. This is a combination synopsis/solicitation for these services and will be the only solicitation to be issued. Any contractor/vendor able to meet the requirements must demonstrate in writing by the closing date. All responsible sources solicitated my submit a bid, proposal, or quotation, that shall be considered. 2.0 Statement of Work 2.1 Task 1: Review and comment on the work done Approximately 350 use clusters, containing over 2,500 chemicals, were scored under previous work assignments. The EPA WAM shall endeavor to make available to the contractor all available documentation from previous work assignments. The contractor shall review and understand the work done under these previous work assignments. 2.2 Task 2: Prepare Work Plan and Budget, and Manage Work Assignment The contractor shall prepare a work plan and budget that describes the work to be performed, projected schedules, cost information, staffing, and an outline of key deliverables on a task by task basis. The contractor shall provide monthly progress reports during the course of the work assignment to the EPA WAM. 2.3 Task 3: Identification of Candidate Clusters The contractor shall identify, collect data and rank clusters, addition to the clusters already done, when asked. The EPA WAM will notify the contractor and provide information on the new industry to be clustered. The clusters shall be based, at least in part, on the following definitions of clusters defined by Agency and other governmental entities: o Danish National Institute of Occupational Health ("European Community List") o Regulatory Impacts Branch Use Codes ("RIB List" as developed by OPPT/EETD/RIB) o Comprehensive Assessment Information Rules Form List ("CAIR List") o Source Category List for Regulation Development for Clean Air Act, Title III The contractor shall submit a list of proposed chemicals for the clusters to the EPA WAM for a review before proceeding with the information gathering and scoring activities. The data gathered for each cluster shall include chemicals and technologies that should be included in a cluster,industries that use the chemicals or technologies, specific industrial (or other) processes that use the chemicals or technologies and all other information necessary to rank chemicals using the ranking system. 2.4 Task 4: Ranking System Options The contractor shall recommend options for methods and criteria that OPPT could use to rank environmental problems associated with the clusters. This ranking shall assist OPPT in choosing the order in which clusters should be worked on. 2.5 Task 5: Data gathering and scoring The contractor shall gather the necessary data for each identified new cluster and input the data in the algorithm. The contractor shall also endeavor to properly document the program itself as well as all supporting data sources used. For those clusters already in the system, the contractor shall gather any new and/or more recent data when it is necessary. The EPA WAM will determine and notify the contractor when new data gathering is needed. The contractor shall score any new clusters and check for the accuracy of the data entered as well as the resulting scores. 2.6 Task 6: Programming the system The contractor shall revise and/or modify the menu driven data retrieval/ranking system based on the algorithm provided by the EPA WAM. The contractor shall also provide EPA WAM with copies of users manual for the system. 2.7 Task 7: Distribution of the system The contractor shall investigate and make recommendation on the software and the method of distribution/accessing of the system from outside of OPPT. This shall include, but is not limited to mainframe, CD ROM, network and floppy diskettes. EETD chemical engineering branch will have the exclusive copyright of the software and the contractor shall not release, under any circumstances, the computerized system to any other EPA offices or to public without a prior written notice from the EPA WAM. All documents shall be written in IBM compatible WordPerfect Version 5.1 with all graphics to be done in Freelance Version 3.0 or higher. The contractor shall provide to the EPA WAM hardcopies of all documents along with floppy diskettes as deemed appropriate by the EPA WAM. 3.0 Schedule of Deliverables The Schedule of Deliverables for this project shall be as follows: Deliverable Date Preparation of Work Plan 15 days after receipt of Work Plan request The schedules for other deliverables will be discussed with the contractor and will be set by the EPA WAM. (0252)

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