USTDA, 1621 N. Kent Street, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22209-2131

B -- IDOS INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT PLANT FACILITY DUE 072000 POC POC Evangela Kunene, USTDA, 1621 N. Kent Street, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22209-2131, Tel: (703) 875-4357, Fax: (703) 875-4009. IDOS Industrial Waste Treastment Plant Facility. The Grantee invites submission of qualifications and proposal data (collectively referred to as the "Proposal") from interested U.S. firms which are qualified on the basis of experience and capability to develop a feasibility study for PCB clean up. IDOS was founded in 1991 and is located in the Pribram region, about 30 miles southwest of Prague. IDOS is involved in full service engineering, project management, and construction and manufacturing. The president, Lubomir Kasak, built IDOS into a diversified, successful, profitable company with 480 employees in a 14-acre industrial zone owned by the company. IDOS recently acquired an additional 17 acres for expansion into waste treatment and reprocessing facilities, which are the subject for the feasibility study. IDOS Praha submitted a proposal for a feasibility study for its highest priority expansion, an investment in the development of waste disposal facilities for the treatment of PCB and PAH-containing hazardous wastes. It is generally acknowledged that a minimum of 65,000 tons of PCB-contaminated waste exists in the Czech Republic. Some experts estimate the total as high as 200,000 tons. The biggest danger represented by PCB materials is to ground water, acquifers and the related community drinking water. PAH contaminated soils, resulting from the use of gasified coal in the heating systems, are believed to be more extensive and pervasive than the PCBs. There are over twenty known large sites with PAH contaminants of over 100,000 tons located throughout the Czech Republic and thousands of smaller sites. As with the PCBs, groundwater contamination is the major concern with PAH contaminated soils. IDOS would like to establish the practice of cleaning up the PCB and PAH wastes, as currently none exists in the Czech Republic. They are debating among five different technologies to pursue: thermal desorption, extraction by water based solutions, chemical processes, incineration and vitrification. Specifically,the Feasibility Study will entail the following tasks: Task One: Review background information and finalize detailed work plan Task Two: Technology Assessment Task Three: Client review and choice of treatment technologies and identification of Potential environmental concerns in project implementation Task Four: Finalize process equipment selection (focusing on U.S. sources of supply), Cost estimates and project economics Task Five: Final report The U.S. firm selected will be paid in U.S. dollars from a $198,080 grant to the Grantee from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA). A detailed Request for Proposals (RFP), which includes requirements for the Proposal, the Terms of Reference, and a background definitional mission report is available from TDA, at 1621 N. Kent Street, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22209-2131. Requests for the RFP should be faxed to the IRC, TDA at 703-875-4009. In the fax, please include your firm's name, contact person, address, and telephone number. Some firms have found that RFP materials sent by U.S. mail do not reach them in time for preparation of an adequate response. Firms that want TDA to use an overnight delivery service should include the name of the delivery service and your firm's account number in the request for the RFP. Firms that want to send a courier to TDA to retrieve the RFP should allow one hour after faxing the request to TDA before scheduling a pick-up. Please note that no telephone requests for the RFP will be honored. Please check your internal fax verification receipt. Because of the large number of RFP requests, TDA cannot respond to requests for fax verification. Requests for RFPs received before 4:00 PM will be mailed the same day. Requests received after 4:00 PM will be mailed the following day. Please check with your courier and/or mail room before calling TDA. Only U.S. firms and individuals may bid on this TDA financed activity. Interested firms, their subcontractors and employees of all participants must qualify under TDA's nationality requirements as ofthe due date for submission of qualifications and proposals and, if selected to carry out the TDA-financed activity, must continue to meet such requirements throughout the duration of the TDA-financed activity. All goods and services to be provided by the selected firm shall have their nationality, source and origin in the U.S. or host country. The U.S. firm may use subcontractors from the host country for up to 20 percent of the TDA grant amount. Details of TDA's nationality requirements and mandatory contract clauses are also included in the RFP. Interested U.S. firms should submit their Proposal in English directly to the Grantee by 4:00 PM, local time, July 20, 2000 at the above address. Evaluation criteria for the Proposal are included in the RFP. Price will not be a factor in contractor selection, and therefore, cost proposals should NOT be submitted. The Grantee reserves the right to reject any and/or all Proposals. The Grantee also reserves the right to contract with the selected firm for subsequent work related to the project. The Grantee is not bound to pay for any costs associated with the preparation and submission of Proposals. ***** Posted 06/06/00 (W-SN462003). (0158)

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