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R -- COMMERCIALIZATION TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES SOL RFQ-DC-98-00153 DUE 081398 POC John J. Nanartowicz III,Contracting Officer, 202-564-4756 WEB: click here to download a copy of the RFQ, http://www.epa.gov/oamhpod1/oppts_grp/dc9800153/index.htm. E-MAIL: click here to contact the Contracting Officer via, "nanartowicz.john@epamail.epa.gov". THIS REQUIREMENT WILL BE PROCURED UTILIZING SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE COMPETITIVE PROCEDURES!! The Standard Indistrial Classification (SIC) code for the acquisition is 8748. The Small Business Size Standard is $ 5.0 million dollars. The Office of Research and Development, Environmental Engineering Research Division has a need for "COMMERCIALIZATION TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE" as specified in this announcement. Section 9(j) of the Small Business Act (as amended by Public Law 102-564) has modified policies regarding the implementation of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The US Small Business Administration Policy Directive, dated January 26, 1993, has provided for the U.S. EPA and other agencies with SBIR programs to enter into contracts to provide technical assistance to SBIR awardees on all facets of commercialization. STATEMENT OF WORK: The contractor will provide technical assistance to each of 25 companies developing and commercializing environmental control technologies under the FY98 EPA Phase I SBIR Program. For the purposes of this procurement action, technical assistance will consist of the following: (1) Obtaining input from the awardee by means of a telephone, letter or e-mail; (2) Drawing upon knowledge of market conditions and other business factors known by the contractor; (3) Preparation of the draft commercialization plan in concert with the awardee; and (4) Preparation of the final commercialization plan in concert with the awardee. The list of 25 companies and the approved SBIR proposals will be furnished to the contractor by the EPA project officer. The Commercialization Plan should address: (a) SBIR Project: Brief description of the company, its principal field(s) of interest, size and current products and sales. A concise description of the SBIR project and its key technical objectives. (b) Commercial Applications: Primary applications, markets and uses of the research results specifying customers and specific needs which will be satisfied. Contractor is not required to identify the specific technology's capacity for secondary market opportunities or alternate uses associated with these markets. The contractor is expected, however, to identify specific potential partners for primary markets/uses identified by the SBIR company. (c) Competitive Advantages: What is particularly innovative about the anticipated technology or products? (Innovation may be expressed in terms of applications, performance, efficiencies or reduced cost.) What are the significant advantages in application, performance, technique, efficiency, and/or cost over existing technologies? (d) Markets: What is the anticipated specific market for the resulting technology, estimated size, class of customers, and the company's estimated market share five years after the project is completed and/or first sales? Who are the major competitors in the market, present and/or anticipated? (e) Commercialization: Briefly describe how the company plans to produce the product. Does the company intend to manufacture it in-house, subcontract manufacturing, enter into a joint venture or manufacturing agreement, license the product, etc.? Briefly describe the approach and steps the company plans to take to commercialize the research results to significant sales. Does the company plan to market the product itself, through dealers, contract sales, marketing agreements, joint venture, sales representatives, foreign companies, etc.? How does the company plan to raise money to support its commercialization plan. TERM: The contractor shall complete all the tasks described in this procurement within six (6) months of award, but not later than January 31,1999. The contractor shall provide copies of final plans to EPA and each company in hard copy and electronic (WordPerfect 6.1 compatible) form. The contractor shall also keep a log of time and expenses spent on each company and provide this log to EPA at the end of the contract. EVALUATION FACTORS: The Government will evaluate competing offers on the basis of the following factors, which arelisted in order of descending importance. TECHNICAL: The offerors will be evaluated on the technical merits of the following criteria: (a) Demonstrated experience with working with small businesses and with the Small Business Innovative Research Program; (b) Technical skills and experience with developing business plans and commercialization strategies; (c) Approach to providing the commercialization plans; (d) Qualifications of project leader and support staff; (e) Adequacy and appropriateness of cost estimate to reflect understanding of work required. PAST PERFORMANCE: Provide three (3) of the most relevant and related references for similar work in terms of size and scope over the past three years. Provide the following information: (a) the name and address of the organization for which services were performed; (b) the current telephone number of a responsible technical representative of the organization and the current business contact; (c) the contract number, if applicable; (d) the type of contract performed; and (e) a brief description of the services provided, including the length of performance and total dollar amount. FACTORS: (All subfactors are of equal importance) The Government will evaluate the merits of each Offeror's past performance as follows: (a) Quality of product/service; (b) Timeliness of Performance; (c) Cost Control; (d) Business Relationships; and (e) Customer (end user) satisfaction. All the factors will be considered equally and the offeror(s) will receive an overall rating of Outstanding, Very Good, Acceptable, Marginal or Unacceptable. The Government may obtain past performance information from the references indicated in the offeror's proposal, from other customers known to the Government, and from any other applicable sources having useful and relevant information. Past performance will be evaluated based on consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances. Award may be made from initial offers without discussions. If discussions are held, offerors selected for discussions will be given the opportunity to address unfavorable past performance reports. However, prompt corrective actions in isolated instances may not outweigh overall negative trends. Should an offeror have no past performance history, they will receive a neutral score. A neutral score will have no positive or negative effect on the evaluation results. For copies of the complete Request for Quotation, please visit the U.S. EPA Website at http://www.epa.gov/oamhpod1/oppts_grp/dc9800153/index.htm, or E-mail the Contracting Officer at "nanartowicz.john@epamail.epa.gov" for a copy of the solicitation package. The Contracting Officer can be reached at 202-564-4756. You may be able to retrieve a copy of the request for quotation package on or about July 22, 1998. Posted 07/22/98 (W-SN227081). (0203)

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