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A -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR PEER REVIEW, MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS, ETC. SOL PR-CI-98-00006 POC Billy Oden, Contracting Officer, (513)487-2126 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Contracts Management Division -- Cincinnati, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: U.S. EPA -- Contracts Management Division -- Cincinnati, oden.billy@epamail.epa.gov. The U.S. EPA has a requirement to provide support to Office of Science Policy (OSP) and Science Policy Council in the following areas: peer review services, meeting management, development of scientific issue papers and analyses, and training development. Peer reviews and analyses conducted under the resultant contract will be limited to scientific/technical issues. The results of these efforts must be able to satisfy various levels of Agency, Science Advisory Board and public review, and may require further scientific and technical review and development, both within and outside of the Agency. Office of Research and Development (ORD), Office of Science Policy, Washington, DC, has two basic functions in support of ORD, each promoting the importance of science and regulatory policies. OSP guides the use of scientific analyses in current EPA decisions by participating in ongoing regulatory and science policy activities of EPA laboratories, programs, and regional offices and the Science Policy Council. The office also helps determine the kind and quality of information available for future environmental decisions by leading ORD and Agency research planning activities. EPA's Science Policy Council was established to provide a mechanism to address and resolve cross-media, cross-program and cross-disciplinary science policy issues for the Agency. Science is defined as the quantitative social sciences such as economics, and the physical, chemical, and biological sciences. Science Policy Council projects are selected because they represent major policy issues that go beyond the boundaries of any one media or Agency program. A detailed Statement of Work will be issued with the solicitation. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be issued during late January, 1998, providing for a response time of a minimum of thirty (30) days. EPA intends to award a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) Level-of-Effort (LOE) contract, which will use work assignment ordering arrangements, with a base period of 12 months, and a total of 2,700 LOE hours, commencing about August 1, 1998. The contract will contain options for four (4) additional 12 month performance periods, each containing 2,700 LOE hours, which if exercised, makes the potential total contract performance term, 60 months. The Base Period and each Option Period (1-4) will contain options for additional quantities of 1,065 LOE hours. EPA uses Electronic Commerce (EC) to issue RFPs and amendments to RFPs. The subject solicitation and any amendments to it will be available via the Internet at the URL address shown below. Paper copies of the RFP will not be provided. (0349)

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