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B -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR THE EPA PERMITS DIVISION WET WEATHER PROGRAM FOR MANAGEMENT OF UNTREATED DISCHARGES THAT OCCUR DURING STORM FLOW EVENTS SOL PR-CI-99-13803 POC Andre Reinhart (513)487-2119 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer via, reinhart.andre@epamail.epa.gov. The U.S. Environmental Protection is Agency, Office of Water, requires technical support services for its responsibilities under the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Program related to wet weather discharges. Types of discharges being studied include storm water overflows, combined sewer overflows, sanitary sewer overflows, runoff from mining operations, and wet weather impacts on publicly owned water treatment works. The required support consists of analytical, technical and administrative tasks requiring disciplines primarily in the fields of science and engineering. The Contractor shall provide multi-disciplinary expertise for a variety of technical and administrative tasks related to regulatory, policy, strategy, and guidance development specific to wet weather discharges under the NPDES Program. This support shall primarily consist of collecting, compiling, analyzing and presenting data and information that EPA may use in it's regulatory processes. Typical outputs from this support include technical reports, papers and studies. The disciplines most frequently required will be analysts, engineers, scientists and economists. It is anticipated that a cost plus fixed fee/level-of-effort contract will result from the award of this solicitation. The estimated period of performance will consist of a 12 month base period and four option periods of 12 months duration each. The Government anticipates a maximum level of effort of 20,000 direct labor hours for each period of performance. The Government also anticipates including quantity option amounts of 10,000 hours for each period of performance. The maximum estimated total potential level of effort for the contract is 150,000 direct labor hours over 60 months. This acquisition is a 100% Small Business Set-Aside. The applicable SIC code is 8742. Solicitation No. PR-CI-99-13803 will appear on the internet. It may be accessed through the EPA's home page on the World Wide Web at the following direct link URL: http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. It is anticipated that this RFP will be available in mid May, 1999. See Note 1. Posted 04/21/99 (W-SN322493). (0111)

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