U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Contracts Management Division (MD-33), Attention: OARSC, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

66 -- CHEMICAL SPECIATION SEQUENTIAL SAMPLER SOL PM0033 DUE 080100 POC James F. Kempf, Contract Specialist, (919) 541-4278/Janice White, Contracting Officer, (919) 541-3166 WEB: Click here to visit the site that has information about, http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contract specialist via, kempf.james@epa.gov. THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN SUBPART 12.6, AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; QUOTES ARE BEING REQUESTED AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. The solicitation number is PM0033 and the solicitation is being issued as a Request for Proposal solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-15. The Environmental Protection Agency anticipates that the contract will be awarded to Ruprecht & Patashnick Co. Inc. as a result of this solicitation. A firm-fixed-price purchase order is anticipated to result from the award of this solicitation. This procurement is NOT a total small business set aside and the SIC No. is 3829 with a size standard of 500 Employees. This procurement is not a follow-on to a prior contract. This acquisition is for the delivery, FOB Destination, of four Chemical Speciation Sequential Samplers. The four delivery locations are Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, Jefferson City, MO 65109, Tampa, FL 33605, and Las Vegas, NV 89119. The EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards is currently assisting states in implementing the National PM2.5 Chemical Speciation network. State and local agencies are expected to have around 300 Speciation samplers in the fully-implemented network. A number of state and local agencies are interested in the purchase and use of a recently developed sequential Speciation sampler available from Rupprecht and Patashnick (R&P). This sampler is not available on the National Contract. States are interested in using this sampler in the National Speciation trends network in order to reduce the burden on field operators by providing automated sequential versus manual sampling. We cannot deny state agencies the use of this new sequential sampler. Since data consistency and quality are a necessity for the National network, we have a need to evaluate the acceptability of this sampler's use for the Speciation trends program. Four sampling devices must be acquired. The number of samplers is necessary to support a determination of precision (collocated pair) and to evaluate the sampler under various climatological and environmental conditions. The requirement is to provide 5 line items: 1) 4 ea. Partisol SEQ Samplers, PN 99-006282-0120, 2) 24 sets of 3 cartridges, PN 59-006997-0001, 3) 1 ea. Impactor Grease, PN 59-006460, 4) ea. Flow Audit Adaptors, Model 2300, PN 32-002530 and 5) 4 ea. Flow Audit Adaptors, Cartridge, PN 55-006982. The foregoing electrical equipment must be listed and labeled by a third party listing agency approved by the North Carolina Building Code Council. (List of agencies available upon request). The following FAR provisions apply (which can be downloaded at the following site: http://www.epa.gov/oamrtpnc/spclaus/index.htm)apply to this solicitation: 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items; All Offerors shall include with their offers a completed copy of provision 52.212-3, Offror Representations and Certification-Commercial Items. The following FAR clause applies to this acquisition: 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items. The following additional FAR clauses which are cited in clauses 52.212-5 are applicable to the acquisition: 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government, with Alternate I: 52.203-10, Price or Fee Adjustment for Illegal or Improper Activity; 52.219-14, Limitation on Subcontracting; 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans; 52.222.36, Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers; 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Viet Nam Era. Price and technical information should be submitted to James F. Kempf, Contract Specialist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, MD-33, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711. Courier Delivery Address is: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Receptionist-Administration Bldg. Lobby, Attn: James F. Kempf, 79 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. All offers are due by August 1, 2000, 4:00PM EDT. No telephonic requests will be honored. Posted 07/21/00 (W-SN477710). (0203)

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