U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 W. Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268

A -- VEHICLE AND ENGINE ENGINEERING SUPPORT SOL PR-CI-00-10244 POC Billy Oden, (513) 487-2126, Contracting Officer WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: U.S. EPA -- Cincinnati Contracts Management Division, oden.billy@epamail.epa.gov. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a requirement for support to the Office of Air and Radiation, National Vehicle Fuels Emission Laboratory, Advanced Technology Support Division, which will be provided in the form of flexible engineering support related to vehicles and engines. Efforts will be focused on reducing emissions and improving efficiency (to lower carbon dioxide emissions). Required work may include design, fabrication, development, and testing support on vehicles, engines, subsystems, and fuel systems. All vehicles, engines, subsystems and fuel systems required to initiate work will either be commercially available, developed by the contractor, or furnished by the Government. It may be necessary to convert this equipment to alternate-fuel operation after acquisition. The contractor shall provide all personnel, materials, services, equipment, and facilities to design, develop, modify, fabricate, procure, calibrate, and perform engineering tasks on the requisite components. EPA intends to award a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) contract with a base period of 12 months, and a total of 20,000 Level of Effort (LOE) hours. The contract will contain options for two additional 12 month performance periods, for 20,000 LOE hours each, which if exercised, makes the potential total contract performance term, 36 months. Each performance period will contain options for additional quantities of 30,000 LOE hours. The Request for Proposal will be issued on or about March 1, 2000, with responses due on or about April 1, 2000. All offers from responsive and responsible sources will be considered. Request for Proposal PR-CI-00-10244 will be available for downloading from U.S. EPA's World Wide Web (WWW) site at http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. No telephone requests will be honored. Posted 01/24/00 (W-SN417639). (0024)

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