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R -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR GENERAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SERVICES SOL PR-CI-98-12394 POC Nancy Muzzy (513)487-2023 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Contracts Management, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: Nancy Muzzy, Contracting Officer, muzzy.nancy@epamail.epa.gov. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), Office of Water (OW), Office of Science and Technology (OST), Engineering and Analysis Division (EAD), is seeking a contractor to provide general statistical support services to the Statistical Analysis Section. The successful contractor will provide statistical analysis support to EPA in its development, review, implementation and defense of effluent limitations guidelines and standards, water quality standards, sewage sludge regulations and other regulations and initiatives established under the provisions and requirements of the Clean Water Act. The successful contractor will supply all necessary labor, material, services, equipment, and facilities in support of the effort delineated by the statement of work. A large portion of the contract will provide statistical analysis support for the development of industrial effluent guidelines regulations. In supporting effluent guidelines development, the contractor shall use statistical procedures and methodologies in analyzing and interpreting data from chemical analyses of environmental samples (e.g., composite samples, soil samples), wastewater treatment system performance data, process and production evaluations, chemical analytical methods evaluations, surveys, and other sources. Further, the contractor shall provide statistical support in designing and technically evaluating data collection activities; in reviewing and technically evaluating studies and public comments to determine if EPA's objectives have been met and what statistical inferences the results support; and preparing reports and documentation on the statistical methodology and the conclusions of the statistical analyses that can be easily understood by the intended audience. This contract will require superior levels of expertise in theory and application of statistical methods including nonparametric statistics, multivariate analysis, regression, maximum likelihood estimation, analysis of variance, time series, categorical data analysis, survey statistics, inferential statistics, spatial analysis, survival analysis, and graphical analysis. The contract will require management of multiple, concurrent work assignments which will require long-term as well as quick turn-around responses essential to the statutory responsibilities of the Office of Water. The proposed contract will be a cost plus fixed fee/level-of-effort term contract, with a base period of one year and four one year option periods, for a total of 60 months. The base level of effort (LOE) for each of the five periods will be approximately 12,500 direct labor hours with options for an additional LOE of up to 100% in each period, for a total potential of 125,000 direct productive labor hours over the five years, if all options are exercised. ALL RESPONSIBLE SOURCES MAY SUBMIT AN OFFER WHICH WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THE AGENCY. The incumbent on the contract currently fulfilling this requirement is Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), of Reston, VA. Solicitation PR-CI-98-12394 will appear on the Internet. It may be accessed through the EPA's home page on the World Wide Web (www.epa.gov). The direct link URL is http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. It is anticipated that this solicitation will be issued during the third to fourth week in January, 1999. Only a limited number of hard copies of the solicitation will be available on a first come first serve basis. All requests for the solicitation must be in writing, telephone requests for the solicitation will not be honored. You may fax your request to Nancy Muzzy at 513-487-2115. Note 26 APPLIES. Posted 12/15/98 (W-SN280253). (0349)

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