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

A -- ENVIRONMENTAL METHODS DEVELOPMENT, MEASUREMENT, CHARACTERIZATION, AND EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT SOL PR-NC-00-10109 POC McDonald Morrison, Contracting Officer (919)541-4364 WEB: Click here to download EPA's Contract Management Division, http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via, morrison.mcdonald@epa.gov. The Environmental Protection Agency intends to award a contract for "Environmental Methods Development, Measurement, Characterization, and Exposure Assessment" for the Office of Research and Development (ORD) National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (HEASD). The acquisition will be made by way of full and open competition. A cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is anticipated to result from the award of this solicitation. The resulting contract is expected to have a Base Year (beginning on or about July 01, 2000) and four single year option periods (continuing through June 30, 2005 if all options are exercised). The associated Standard Identification Code (SIC) is 8731 with a size standard of 500 employees. This procurement will not be made under FAR Part 12 provisions. This effort will support the NERL/ORD's broad responsibilities in characterizing and quantifying the source, transport, transformation, fate and characterization of a wide variety of toxic pollutants across the human exposure and ecological paradigm. It will also include determinations of the physical, chemical, and other characteristics of aerosol pollutants which include particulate matter (PM) and gases, and how these characteristics affect the entry of the pollutants into humans and the environment. This will be NERL/ORD's leading research vehicle for the following research responsibilities: (1) develop and validate instrumentation, (2) methodologies (including EPA reference Methods), (3) manuals, (4) guidelines, (5) Standard Operating Procedures, and (6) Quality Assurance Procedures (QAP) for the measurement of ambient levels of pollutants of concern to EPA. These resultant instruments, methods, QAP, etc., will be used by EPA as its major basis of validating measurements of ambient levels of pollutants that are of concern to EPA. EPA relies on the validated instrumentation methodology and QAP as it is the main source of support in determining the validity of its ambient pollutant determinations. EPA's ambient pollutant data is an essential part of the basis for EPA's regulatory ambient air standards for enforcement of the standards. A pre-proposal conference will be held in association with this procurement. Interested parties should monitor the EPA's website shown at the end of this announcement for further details. The point of contact for this effort will be McDonald Morrison and he may be reached at the following E-Mail address: morrison.mcdonald@epa.gov. A draft Statement of Work is posted, for review and comment, at the INTERNET site referenced below. It is estimated that the solicitation will be issued on or about January 31, 2000. Proposals will be due approximately 30 days after the RFP issuance date. This acquisition represents a follow-on to contract 68-D5-0040 (Research Triangle Institute) and 68-D5-0049 (Mantech Environmental Technologies, Inc.). This solicitation and amendments will be available via the INTERNET World Wide Web at the following site: http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd. Firms must access the solicitation and amendments via the INTERNET. Once you obtain a copy of the solicitation via the INTERNET, it will be your responsibility to frequently check the same site where the solicitation is posted for any amendments. Telephone and fax requests will not be honored. Posted 01/06/00 (W-SN413875). (0006)

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