US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center Huntsville, 4820 University Square, Huntsville, AL 35816-1822

B -- EXPERT SERVICES FOR STUDIES OF AIRBORNE MERCURY AND METAL SEDIMENTS AND SEDIMENT DATING SOL DACA87-00-Q-0050 DUE 062800 POC Nadine Maack, Contract Specialist, 256-895-1129 or Connie Oberle, Contracting Officer, 256-895-1161 WEB: Click here to contact contract specialist., myra.n.maack@hnd01.usace.army.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to contact contract specialist via e-mail, myra.n.maack@hnd01.usace.army.mil. The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, Alabama, intends to make a sole source award to the State University of New York Binghamton, Department of Geological Sciences, to provide all services, personnel and equipment to perform studies and analyses on sediments located at the DLA/DNSC Binghamton Army Depot and an adjoining pond. These analyses require expertise in airborne mercury studies and sediment dating techniques. Services will include collection of sediment cores in several ponds and drainage ways. Experience in using metals and isotopes to correlate and date the depositional sequence is required. Services also include monitoring airborne mercury. Expertise differentiating anthroprogenic/background sources of mercury from site specific sources is required. Due to the need to conduct late spring and early summer sampling, award will be issued as soon as possible, and performance of work will begin immediately. Analyses shall include, but are not limited to, use of the following equipment: A Tekran continuous HG analyzer capable of ng/m3 Hg detection limits, and The Perkin Elmer Elan 6000 ICP-MS (PE6000), which shall be housed in a specially constructed particle and temperature controlled laboratory, and ICP-MS instrumentation. Measurements of metal concentrations to sub-ppm (part per million) levels shall be taken. Sediment analyses are expected to determine historical records of pollutant deposition and present day pollution in surface runoff in the designated areas. The offeror must meet all applicable Federal, State, Environmental Protection Agency rules and regulations, including all applicable requirements from the New York State Department of Health and the NYSDEC (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation). This is not a formal solicitation. The synopsis of intent to award a sole source is not a request for proposals/offers. Offerors who can demonstrate the necessary experience and expertise and who can provide the US Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, with the above services and in the timeframe required are invited to submit, in writing, an affirmative response which includes applicable pricing and any information indicating a bona fide ability to meet these specific requirements. All responsible sources may respond to this synopsis, and all such responses will be considered by the agency. Response should include business size; Standard Industrial Code 8744. If no written responses are received within 15 calendar days, a sole source solicitation will be issued. Written inquiries may be directed to Nadine Maack, Contract Specialist, fax number 256-895-1197. Posted 06/14/00 (W-SN464619). (0166)

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