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R -- SYSTEM CHANGE EVALUATION FOR SECTOR-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SOL RFQ-DC-00-00135 DUE 071200 POC Yvonne D. Stiso/Contract Specialist/stiso.yvonne@epa.gov WEB: Click here to access a copy of the RFQ, Http://www.epa.gov/oamhpod1/oppts_grp/dc0000135/index.htm. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist, stiso.yvonne@epa.gov. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in accordance with the SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES set forth in FAR Part 13, is seeking a contractor to provide management consulting services described in the Statement of Work (SOW) titled: "System Change Evaluation for Sector-Based Environmental Protection" The SIC Code for this requirement is 8742. The EPA is FACNET certified. You may e-mail the Contract Specialist at: stiso.yvonne@epa.gov Please include the following: Company name, address, phone number, business class, and e-mail address. NO PHONE CALLS WILL BE ACCEPTED. TWO (2) copies of the quote must be submitted by 3:00PM/EST on the due date. US MAIL address is: US EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Attn: Yvonne D. Stiso, Mail Code 3803R, Washington, DC 20460. HAND CARRY (such as FedEx) should be submitted to: US EPA- Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Attn: Yvonne D. Stiso, Mail Code 3803R, Bid and proposal Room, 6th Floor, Room 61107, Washington, DC 20004. PURPOSE To evaluate change management issues related to sector-based environmental protection (SBEP) approaches in EPA. BACKGROUND: The Government Performance and Review Act (GPRA) requires government agencies to assess their work in terms of results: going beyond outputs to outcomes and value. EPA's Strategic Plan and Annual Plans list goals and objectives under these GPRA requirements. Sector-based activities are included explicitly under Goal 8 (Sound Science, Improved Understanding of Environmental Risk, and Greater Innovation to Address Environmental Problems); in the FY 2000 Annual Performance Plan, the Strategic Objective is to Increase Opportunities for Sector Based Approaches: "By 2005, test innovative facility- and sector-based strategies to achieve improved environmental protection, and make successful approaches broadly available." This measure focuses on the institutional effects of the Agency's sector-based efforts. In addition, sector-based approaches are a valuable tool for helping to achieve EPA's other goals aimed at improving the quality of air and water, increasing the safety of food, reducing risk and preventing pollution, improving waste management, and achieving better compliance with the law. Stakeholder involvement is addressed in Strategic Goal 7, Expansion of Americans' Right to Know about their Environment. This goal includes objectives that support increased access to information and opportunities for public involvement. The Office of Policy and Reinvention is responsible for reporting change management for Sector Based Environmental Protection (SBEP) and related activities which evolved from the Common Sense Initiative. It incorporated these concepts into the Sector-Based Action Plans (1999 and 2000) which also includes the Stakeholder Involvement Action Plans (1999 and 2000). OPR also leads an intensive effort to develop performance measures for the new National Advisory Committee on Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) Standing Committee on Sectors, the FY 2000 Sector-Based Action Plan, and the FY 2000 Stakeholder Involvement Action Plan. "System change" or "change management" is an emerging discipline which seeks to improve organizational performance by promoting system-wide, purposeful innovation. Systematic change is not an easy, or short-term solution. It is a future-oriented approach the Agency is using to address the next generation of environmental problems. Through NACEPT and the SBEP Action Plans, EPA is working with a broad array of stakeholders to examine the current regulatory system, ascertain what could be improved, seek out solutions with a broad application across the Agency. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: From Date of Award through November 31, 2000. PLEASE SEE EPA WEBSITE FOR COMPLETE STATEMENT OF WORK, EVALUATION CRITERIA, AND SCHEDULE OF DELIVERABLES Http://www.epa.gov/oamhpod1/oppts_grp/dc0000135/index.htm. See numbered Note 1. Posted 06/23/00 (W-SN467996). (0175)

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