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

U -- AIR RESOURCES RESEARCH CONSORTIUM LIBRARY SUPPORT SOL PR-BC-98-11872 DUE 063098 POC McDonald Morrison, (919) 541-4364/Contracting Officer, Julio E. Lopez, (919) 541-4474 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist via, morrison.mcdonald@epamail.epa.gov. The Environmental Protection Agency intends to negotiate a sole source requirement with the Air Resources Research Consortium (ARRC) for Library Support. This Library is located at North Carolina State University (NCSU), North Carolina Agricultural Research Services, Department of Plant Pathology. A five year contract is anticipated with a 12 month base period to start upon award (anticipated to be around September 1, 1998) through August 31, 1999, and four one-year options continuing through August 31, 2003. A fully qualified librarian with computer skills is required to run the library. The ARRC Library is a unique facility that provides support to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by supplying reference materials for the development of vegetation portions of the Criteria Documents for the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) and for the Staff Papers of the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS), which are developed from the Criteria Documents. The Library is extensively used by graduate students and faculty at NCSU, and to a lesser extent, by students and faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and Duke University. In addition, the Library is used by researchers in the field throughout the U.S. and Canada, and to some extent by research scientists in other countries (i.e., Japan, South Korea, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, and others). The Library maintains a substantial number of listings on acidic deposition effects on aquatic systems. The Library has over 30,000 hard copies of research and review papers as well as a reasonably complete file of "gray" literature, that is usually not available with extensive cross referencing and key word search capabilities. The Contractor shall provide support to the EPA ecological research programs by providing material and resources from its unique Air Quality Library collection. Specifically, the Contractor shall: 1) Continuously acquire new and past published literature to include ordering back prints and screening back issues of related journals, 2) Continuously perform searches of all current sources of literature on the effects of air contaminants on terrestrial system, 3) Incorporate new found literature into the reference bibliography with extensive keywording, 4) Obtain and incorporate into the ARRC Library hard copies of the newly found references, 5) Maintain a "home page" in order to make information available "on-line", 6) Produce a monthly update of new acquisitions to the Library, 7) Run literature searches based on key words supplied by authorized EPA personnel in writing or by phone, 8) Provide hardcopy or E-mail search results to the EPA requestor, 9) Supply copies of individual reference requested by authorized EPA personnel, 10) Submit monthly activity reports to the EPA Project Officer. Any written response to this notice must be received no later than 15 calander days after publication of this synopsis. In order to be responsive, the correspondence must be accompanied by a written narrative statement of capability and qualifications, including detailed technical information sufficient to permit agency analysis in order to determine a bonafide capability to meet the Government's requirements. Responses without the required documentation will be considered non-responsive. This is NOT a formal notice of solicitation. No telephone or facsimile requests will be honored. (0166)

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