U.S. Department Of Energy, Document Control Specialist, Washington, DC 20585

R -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR INTEGRATION OF EM RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION, TESTING ACTIVITIES, AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT SOL DE-RP01-98EW58026 POC Attn: Document Control Specialist Point of Contact: Phyllis P. Morgan, Contract Specialist, (202) 426-0064, e-mail address: phyllis.morgan@hq.doe.gov The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Office of Science and Technology (EM-50), has a need for specialized, integrated technical services. Such services would support in EM's mission to: (1) accelerate the development of new technologies to solve environmental restoration and waste operations problems; (2) develop technology to improve environmental restoration and waste management effectiveness, efficiency, and safety; (3) provide scientific knowledge that will revolutionize technologies and clean-up approaches to significantly reduce future costs, schedules, and risks; and (4) encourage collaboration and technology transfer among Federal agencies, State and Tribal Governments, industry, academia, and the international community. The proposed services will provide technical services to EM-50 in support of integration of EM research, development, demonstrationand testing activities. A single award is anticipated for a 5-year, performance-based, cost-plus-award-fee, level of effort type contract consisting of a 3-year base period and one 24-month option period. The Department of Energy intends to obtain written proposals from offerors. However, oral presentations will be substituted for portions of the proposals as instructed in the solicitation. The solicitation will be available for downloading on the Internet from the "Current Business Opportunities at Headquarters Procurement Services" home page address is http://www.pr.doe.gov/solicit.html. No paper copies of the solicitation will be made available. Prospective offerors that do not have the electronic capability to download the solicitation shall submit a written request to Document Control Specialist for a diskette copy of the solicitation. The requester must include a self-addressed, stamped-envelope and a MS-DOS formatted high density 3.5" virus free diskette suitable for download of the electronic solicitation. Offerors who fail to submit an appropriate diskette, or self-addressed, stamped envelope, will not receive the solicitation. IMPORTANT -- Contractors currently listed on the Department Bidder Mailing List for the SIC code will not automatically receive an electronic copy of the solicitation. It is the responsibility of the prospective offerors, after receipt of the solicitation, to notify the Contract Specialist of their intent to submit an offer. Without such notification, prospective offerors will not be informed when amendments and other solicitation-related information is posted on the Internet. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. This acquisition contains 100% set-aside provisions for small businesses. The Standard Industrialization Classification Code is 8711. The anticipated release date for the solicitation is on/or about March 31, 1998 with proposals due approximately 30 days from release. (0051)

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