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

T -- PUBLICATION AND OPERATION SERVICES FOR NSCEP SOL PR-CI-00-10323 POC Lynne W. Lewis (513)487-2007 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: U.S. EPA -- Cincinnati Contracts Management Division, lewis.lynne@epamail.epa.gov. THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT FOR WRITTEN INFORMATION ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE MADE FOR ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND ANY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION REQUESTS. NO TELEPHONE CALLS REQUESTING A SOLICITATION WILL BE ACCEPTED OR ACKNOWLEDGED. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a need for a contractor to supply non-personal services to manage and operate the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP). The main objectives of the NSCEP are to assist EPA Program Offices and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in ensuring access to publications and operation of a national publications ordering function for the EPA and EEOC. The services to be performed are day to day operations of a publications distribution center and central, national publications ordering function. These services include (not inclusive) are: responding to requests for EPA and EEOC publications (telephone calls, letters, faxes, and e-mail) from the general public, processing work requests for publication distribution and work requests for EPA forms from the EPA program offices, processing work requests from the EEOC for publication distribution, and operating the distribution center by maintaining EPA and EEOC publications and distributing EPA and EEOC publications. This contract will require both on-site effort at specified EPA facilities and off-site effort at the contractor's facilities. It is anticipated that the contract will be firm-fixed price with a base period of one year and two serial one year options. The applicable SIC Code is 4225 with a size standard of $18.5 million. ANY INTERESTED FIRM SHOULD SUBMIT A CAPABILITY STATEMENT WHICH DEMONSTRATES THE FIRM'S ABILITY TO PROVIDE THE REQUIREMENT DISCUSSED ABOVE. STANDARD COMPANY BROCHURES ARE NOT DESIRED. INFORMATION SHOULD FOCUS ON THE CAPABILITY TO PROVIDE THE TECHNICAL SERVICES IDENTIFIED ABOVE. FIRMS SHALL INDICATE THEIR SIZE STATUS FOR THE ABOVE REFERENCED SIC CODE (LARGE, SMALL, 8(a), SMALL DISADVANTAGED). THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF THE CAPABILITY STATEMENT IS FEBRUARY 18, 2000. This documentation should be submitted in duplicate to Lynne W. Lewis, Contracting Officer, Contracts Management Division, 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268-7001. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be issued in April 2000. Posted 02/03/00 (W-SN421361). (0034)

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