U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Contracts Management Division (MD-33), Attn: ORDSC, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

A -- ON-SITE SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MOBILE SOURCE EMISSIONS RESEARCH SOL PR-NC-99-13167 POC Karen Z. Gibson, Contract Specialist (919)541-4556, McDonald Morrison, Contracting Officer, (919)541-4364 WEB: Click here to download a copy of the RFP, http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd. E-MAIL: Click here to contract the Contract Specialist via, gibson.karen@epa.gov. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a requirement for on-site mobile source emissions support. The Contractor shall provide operation and maintenance of Government owned mobile source test facilities. To provide this support the Contractor shall 1) calibrate, operate, maintain and modify two DC electric chassis dynamometer test cells and one transportable hydrokinetic dynamometer facility with associated apparatus for mobile source emissions measurements; 2) calibrate, operate, maintain, and modify a system designed for examination of evaporative emissions from mobile vehicles and integrate evaporative loss test procedures with other mobile vehicle emissions testing procedures and conduct evaporative loss emission tests on motor vehicles; 3) calibrate, operate, maintain, and modify a chamber designed to permit dynamometer driving simulations under temperatures ranging from -20 F to 110 F; 4) provide laboratory simulation of typical engine operating conditions for off-road vehicles and equipment such as lawn mowers, trimmers, boats, snow mobiles, snow and leaf blowers, electric generators, and chain saws; 5) install instruments and test equipment to monitor the ambient vehicle environment in an instrumented test van and lead vehicle and calibrate, maintain, and operate this equipment; 6) conduct tests to define dynamometer control functions for simulation of engine load; 7) provide sample collection, preparation, and analysis support using government owned equipment for the measurement of non-regulated and regulated volatile, and semi-volatile, and particulate mobile source emissions; 8) provide data acquisition and processing support using government owned equipment for data associated with measurements made by Contractor staff in mobile source facilities; 9) characterize emissions from motor vehicles using conventional and alternative fuels under a variety of operating conditions on roadways; 10) perform relocation tasks, including disassembly, repair/rebuilding, and reassembly of mobile sources research equipment when EPA's new permanent facility located in the Research Triangle Park is completed and in some cases, handle the transportation of the equipment; 11) repair and maintain equipment and scientific instrumentation, fabricate new equipment and parts, and modify existing equipment and parts using Government owned machine tools. This procurement is a follow-on to contract 68D50156 with Clean Air Vehicle Technology Center. This is a total small business set aside. The SIC code is 8731, with a size standard of 500 employees. EPA anticipates award of a level-of-effort cost reimbursement contract for a total of 100,800 hours. The contract will consist of a twelve (12) month base period and four option periods of twelve (12) months each. The base period and each option period consist of 13,160 hours with an optional 7,000 hours. The maximum period of performance is 60 months. The solicitation, PR-NC-99-13167, will be available on or about 1/31/2000. Proposals will be due approximately 30 days after the RFP issuance date. No further synopsis will be issued. The solicitation and any subsequent amendments will be available via the Internet World Wide Web at http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd only. Hard copies or diskettes will not be available. Telephone and FAX requests will not be honored. It will be your responsibility to frequently check the same site where the solicitation is posted for any amendments. A preproposal conference will be held approximately one week after the issuance of the RFP. The announcement and details of the preproposal conference will be posted at the Internet World Wide Web site referenced above. See numbered Note 26. Posted 12/17/99 (W-SN409597). (0351)

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