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S -- EPA REGION 8: LIBBY ASBESTOS PROJECT, UNARMED SECURITY GUARD SERVICES SOL DTRS57-00-Q-80047 DUE 060900 POC Point of Contact -- Carolyn Lovett, Contract Specialist, (617) 494-2025 WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Contract Specialist, Lovett@volpe.dot.gov. The Volpe Center intends to issue, through Simplified Acquisition procedures, a competitive Request for Quote (RFQ) to acquire un-armed security guard services for new requirements for Region VIII of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the Libby Asbestos Emergency Response Project. The Libby Asbestos Emergency Response Project is in the town of Libby, Lincoln County, Montana. As part of the project the Volpe Center will maintain a field office (i.e., 3 trailers and associated equipment), a staging area, and other construction specific areas on a work day basis (i.e, 6 days/week, 10 hours/day). The site areas are up to 12 miles apart and a vehicle will be required for the conduct of rounds. The requirement is for un-armed security guard services for field office, staging area, and construction areas during all non-working hours for the scheduled duration of the project. The vendor shall provide all the necessary equipment, material and labor to perform the following tasks: conduct daily in-brief and out-brief with Government and contractor representatives and prepare daily in-brief and out-brief logs, file daily in and out briefs logs in the Government file cabinet; conduct rounds (every two hours of shift) of Government field office trailers and equipment, staging area, and constructions area(s) and document logs; notify Government and/or contractor personnel of emergency situations; notify appropriate emergency personnel of emergency situations. Small Business firms classified under SIC Code 7381 that are interested in proposing on this requi rement must register in accordance with instructions cited below. RFQ issuance will be on or about June 9, 2000. 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 pageis: 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 Governm ent with an accurate 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 int erest rate. For 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 05/25/00 (D-SN458744). (0146)

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