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R -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR SURVEY SUPPORT SERVICES SOL PR-CI-98-12393 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, is seeking a contractor to provide survey support services for the Statistical Analysis Section. To fulfill its mission, OW conducts surveys to collect data and uses survey data from other sources to evaluate regulatory options, policies, and other program initiatives under the provisions of the Clean Water Act. The successful contractor will supply all necessary labor, material, services, equipment, and facilities in technical support of the effort delineated by the statement of work. The contractor shall provide general survey, statistical and data analysis, and database support in designing, implementing, and evaluating data collection activities; statistical support in analyzing survey data; technical support in reviewing and evaluating studies and public comments to determine if EPA's objectives have been met and what statistical inferencesthe results support; and support in preparing reports and documentation on the surveys and statistical methodology that can be easily understood by the intended audience. A large portion of the contract will provide general survey, statistical and data analysis, and database support for the development of industrial effluent guidelines regulations. The general survey support includes business surveys and national complex surveys. Business surveys are mail surveys that collect information about industrial facility operations (e.g., equipment use), and exclude organization and personnel studies, customer/client satisfaction surveys, market research, employee satisfaction/climate and opinion surveys, quality control surveys, supervisory evaluation, and attitude surveys. This contract will require superior levels of expertise in survey implementation, statistical theory, and the application of statistical methodology for surveys and data collections. 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 15,000 direct labor hours with options for an additional LOE of up to 100% in each period, for a total potential of 150,000 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-98-12393 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-SN280290). (0349)

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