U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, RCPB Superfund Procurement (3805R), 401 M St. SW, Washington, DC 20460-0001

R -- UST/LUST PROGRAM AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT SOL PR-HQ-98-14914 DUE 022099 POC POC Jewel Carter, Contracting Officer, (202)564-1048, Rachel Schwartz, Contract Specialist, (202)564-1053 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via, carter.jewel@epamail.epa.gov schwartz.rachel@epamail.epa.gov. The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Acquisition Management (OAM) will issue a solicitation supporting the Office of Underground Storage Tanks (UST) to procure advisory and assistance services to assist with the Office's strategic goal in helping build and maintain strong state, local and tribal UST programs to prevent and cleanup UST releases; with its compliance work with UST owners and operators, ensuring that all underground storage tanks are in compliance with the UST requirements; ensuring the USTs are properly operated and maintained in accordance with UST requirements, through technical and program evaluations to determine if the upgraded or replaced UST systems are properly functioning; addressing the backlog of releases and additional releases through risk-based corrective action processes; providing technical research concerning potential human carcinogens that are found in gasoline; and promoting alternative site investigation and remediation technologies at cleanupsites. Activities include general technical and research support to OUST and its Regional UST/LUST offices and their state and local government clients, as well as Tribes; providing analytical support and obtaining the necessary background documents for the UST/LUST activities; providing research and analysis in the preparation of new guidance documents and background documents on UST/LUST related subjects; preparing new information and combining existing background information into current survey instruments; simulation modeling; preparing training materials; conducting, presenting, and facilitating technical training sessions for the UST/LUST activities for EPA, state and local governments and Indian tribes. NOTE: This contract proposal does not involve any actual installation and/or removal of underground storage tanks. It is the Government's intent to award one cost-plus-fixed fee, level of effort contract. The contract period of performance shall be for a two-year base period with three one-year options. The contract will have an estimated total level-of-effort of 30,000 professional and technical hours for the base period and 45,000 hours for the option periods. Alternate proposals will not be accepted. Request for proposal PR-HQ-98-14914 will be released within approximately 30 days. The purpose of the CBD announcement is to notify potential offerors of EPA's requirement, generate the source list, and to direct interested parties to the EPA's "Doing Business with EPA" Internet World Wide Web site at http://www.epa.gov/oam for further information on this procurement as it becomes available. The RFP, amendments and other related items for this procurement will be posted on this Web site and can be downloaded/viewed. Interested parties must forward requests to be placed on the source list via Internet E-mail as stated below, via facsimile (202) 565-2557, or to the mailing address that follows: U.S. EPA, 401 M. Street, SW, Superfund/RCRA Procurement Operations Division, Headquarters Contract Service Center, (3805R), Washington, DC 20460-0001, ATTN: Rachel Schwartz. Hard copies of the RFP, amendments, and other related items will not be provided without written certification that INTERNET capability is unavailable. Interested parties must submit their written certification via facsimile stating such to Rachel Schwartz or Jewel Carter so that hard copies of these documents may be provided. See Note 26. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. Posted 11/17/98 (W-SN271973). (0321)

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