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B -- ANALYSIS OF PROPOSED NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR MARINE SALVAGE AND FIREFIGHTING SERVICES SOL DTRS57-00-Q-80001 DUE 101899 POC Point of Contact -- Karen Marino, Purchasing Agent, (617) 494-2437 WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Purchasing Agent, marinok@volpe.dot.gov. The Volpe Center intends to issue, through Simplified Acquisition procedures, a competitive Request for Quote (RFQ) to acquire specialized experts to perform an analysis of proposed new requirements for Marine Salvage and Firefighting Services in the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 Vessel Response Plan Regulation (VRP). The contractor will be tasked with developing inputs to both elements of the cost-effectiveness of various changes to the marine salvage and firefighting requirements of the VRP. The intent of this requirement is to apply knowledge of the oil water transport system, the marine salvage and firefighting industries, and the actual cost and performance experience of planholders and marine salvors and firefighters complying with OPA 90 VRP regulations and to be successful in r esponding to events. Tasks will include reviewing documentation supplied by the government, identifying a representative cross section of individual planholders, and marine salvage and firefighting organizations to provide information for case study interviews, develop an interview plan and questionnaires for interviewing companies and organizations, conduct interviews, analyze what is being done to comply with the existing regulations and what could have been done differently under the original rules, document the costs of compliance with the existing VRP regulations and estimate the changes and document the methods and data sources for the above tasks for a final report. Small Business firms classified under SIC Code 8732 that are interested in proposing on this requirement must regist er in accordance with instructions cited below. RFQ issuance will be on or about October 18, 1999. No telephone requests will be accepted. The solicitation and any document related to this procurement will be available on the Internet; these documents will be available in text format and reside on a WWW server, which may be accessed using Web browsers. The WWW address, or URL, of the Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page is: http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. Offerors desiring to receive electronic notification of the solicitation's posting and availability for downloading may register at the Volpe Center site. Contractors are warned that when they register to receive solicitations, amendments and other notices, the responsibility for providing the Government with an ac curate and complete e-mail address lies with the contractor. The Government will make no additional efforts to deliver information when the system indicates that transmissions cannot be delivered to the e-mail address provided. NO HARD COPIES of the solicitation will be mailed. Telephone requests will not be honored. The following notice is notice for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Short Terms Lending Program (STLP) offers working capital financing in the form of lines of credit to finance accounts receivable for transportation related contracts. Maximum line of credit is $500,000. In addition, a short-term loan program is available to provide working capital at the prime interest rate. Fo r further information regarding these programs, please call the DOT Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization at (800) 532-1169;http://osdbuweb.dot.gov. For information concerning this acquisition, contact the contracting official cited above. Posted 10/04/99 (D-SN387990). (0277)

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