R -- SEEKING QUALIFIED SMALL AND SMALL DISADVANTAGED SOURCES TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR MUNICIPAL, TRIBAL, INDUSTRIAL AND SPECIAL WASTE PROGRAMS

Notice Date

April 5, 2001

Contracting Office

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund Procurement (3805R), Arielrios Building, 1200 Pennsylania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001

ZIP Code

20460-0001

Solicitation Number

PR-HQ-01-13316

Response Due

April 19, 2001

Point of Contact

Raoul D. Scott, Contracting Officer (202) 564-5752 or Doreen Stern, Contract Specialist (202) 564-4466

E-Mail Address

To contact Contracting Officer (Scott.Raoul@epamail.epa.gov )

Description

The purpose of this announcement is to determine the availability of small businesses capable of performing the activities included in the statement of work. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR TECHNICAL OR COST PROPOSALS. This is a request for interested firms to submit a brief capability statement to determine whether or not this procurement will be set aside for small/small disadvantage businesses (if the Government believes there are at least two qualified firms willing to submit a proposal). The Environmental Protection Agency's Headquarters Contract Service Center proposes to procure contractor support for the Office of Solid Waste's Municipal and Industrial Solid Waste Division. The scope of work for this contract primarily includes providing EPA with technical support consisting of conducting: a) studies and surveys; b) research and analyses; c) support for guidance and regulation development; and d) outreach, and e) implementation support. These activities shall support the concept of integrated solid waste management, including the municipal solid waste management hierarchy of source reduction (including reuse), recycling (including composting), and disposal (including landfilling and incineration). Work will also support the Agency's mission of encouraging the purchase of products containing recovered materials, as well as sustainables material use. Technical support shall address all aspects of municipal, industrial non-hazardous, and special wastes management, including the special challenges faced by tribes including: financing, collection, generation, processing, transportation, risk assessment, cost accounting, economics, practicability, marketing of materials; programs for the procurement of products that are source reduced or have recycled content; product/package design, product stewardship, and manufacture; materials flows, industrial ecology, sustainability, resource use, monitoring of trends in other countries, state and local governments, and industry; system and facility design/construction/evaluation, and site selection; outreach, planning, education, and measurement of program effectiveness, waste characterization, and waste reductions including identification of adverse impacts and benefits (including those related to climate change). TASK 1. COLLECT DATA AND CONDUCT STUDIES AND SURVEYS. The contractor shall conduct studies and surveys related to waste generation, materials flows, sustainable resource use, effective program implementation, risk assessment, and methods of waste management, including source reduction, recycling, collection, transportation, storage, processing, treatment, and disposal. The contractor shall provide alternative approaches, technologies, fiscal impacts, economic impacts, and corrective actions based on its analyses of the study/survey results. TASK 2. CONDUCT TECHNICAL ANALYSES. At a minimum, the contractor shall perform technical analyses related to waste management and sustainable materials use and shall provide the government with applicable data to effect changes to waste management practices, facilities and regulations. These changes will provide more efficient and effective programs for waste characterization, risk assessment, source reduction, recycling, storage, collection, treatment, and disposal of wastes. TASK 3. PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR EPA's DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDANCE, REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS. The contractor shall provide support to the government in its efforts to develop new and refine existing guidance, background documents, regulations, standards, criteria, and guidelines on wastes related to source reduction, collection, transportation, recycling, treatment, processing, storage, import/export, and disposal. The contractor shall provide support in the implementation of criteria, guidance, guidelines, policy, strategies, standards, and regulations. At a minimum, such support shall include: development of implementation strategies; analysis of outstanding issues and drafting issue papers; coordination with other programs; determining resource implications; preparing reports and documentation for use in technical guidance documents; supporting EPA in planning and implementing meetings with stakeholders to solicit their positions on guidance and regulations, including providing for meeting facilitation ; evaluation of public comments made in response to Agency regulations, providing technical input for Agency response to comments, and compiling documents for the administrative record; and providing technical support to EPA Regions, States, Tribes, local governments, and owners/operators. The contractor shall provide advertising services, which include: the capability of planning, creating, designing, producing, advertisements and educational materials, and placing advertisements in all media including television (network, cable, syndication and spot), radio (network and spot), magazine (national, regional, and local), newspaper, direct mail, and film. TASK 4. PROVIDE SUPPORT IN MULTI-MEDIA EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAMS AND MATERIALS. The contractor shall provide support for EPA educational outreach materials and programs directed to individuals, businesses, educational institutions, and governmental agencies (local, State, Tribal, and Federal) involved in the Municipal, Industrial and Special Wastes community. The contractor shall also provide technical support to EPA in its multi-media public educational outreach campaign targeted at the general public to provide for an awareness in the individual's and business's opportunities and responsibilities for improving the environment with respect to integrated solid waste management.At a minimum, such support consists of the contractor performing the following: provide alternatives to the government on issues related to educating the public , including Native Americans, on waste issues; create, produce, and place educational messages and materials. In all cases, EPA will make final decisions on all issues related to educating the public on waste issues. The contractor shall provide advertising services, which include: the capability of planning, creating, designing, producing, advertisements and educational materials, and placing advertisements in all media including television (network, cable, syndication and spot), radio (network and spot), magazine (national, regional, and local), newspaper, direct mail, and film. TASK 5. PROVIDE WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT. The contractor shall provide technical, logistical and administrative support for the implementation of the waste management programs, including program evaluation/assessment activities, technical assistance and technology transfer on a site-by-site or case-by-case basis to business, industry, local governments, States, Tribes, general public, Federal Agencies, and EPA Regional Offices. In addition, the contractor shall provide logistic and administrative support as well as support in the development and use of automated data processing systems. The program areas included in this effort are, at a minimum, RCRA reauthorization activities; establishing affirmative procurement programs; establishing full-cost accounting, unit-based pricing, and other innovative economic schemes including Extended Product Responsibility and the creative use of waste management contracts for source reduction, recycling, collection, transportation, processing, treatment, and disposal services; analysis of life-cycle impacts of products and packaging with special emphasis on Climate Change impacts; providing guidance documents and materials; solid waste management planning activities at the Regional, State, Tribal, and local level; analysis and development of markets and procurement incentives for secondary materials and recycled products; alternative financing techniques for facilities and programs; regionalization; establishing standard measuring techniques and methods for source reduction and recycling; technology and information transfer techniques; treatment systems capabilities; voluntary waste reduction and extended product responsibility programs; environmental equity; and developing consistent national definitions and standards for environmental labeling of products and packages. Logistical and administrative support shall consist of the following activities: facilitate meetings and conferences/workshops, and provide minutes and reports; collate and assemble program toolkits, meeting and mailing packages; research and prepare documentation required for Information Collection Requests; provide/procure meeting facilities and support equipment such as audio-visual equipment; and provide staffing of project phone help-lines for providing technical program information The contractor shall also provide support in the development and use of automated data processing systems. The contractor shall develop, deliver and maintain automated information storage, tracking, and dissemination tools and data management systems which shall support the various aspects of the waste prevention and management programs. In addition, the contractor shall provide technical improvements to already existing systems. The contractor shall provide all necessary documentation, training, and supporting software. The contractor shall provide technical support for the creation of new RCRA program documents and/or conversion of existing RCRA program documents, including text, graphics, audio, and video formats, into electronic formats. Support in this area shall include creation, modification, and maintenance of multi-media Internet and intranet Web pages to incorporate the electronic documents; creating, converting, loading, and maintaining electronic documents to Internet and intranet list servers, electronic bulletin boards, and local/wide area networks; and publishing of documents and materials on electronic media, including fixed and removable magnetic media, and on WORM and re-writable optical media including CD-R, CD-ROM and successor technologies. [The full statement of work is available at the following web site http://www.epa.gov/oamsrpod/hcsc/hq0113316/index.htm] It is anticipated that the resultant contract type will be Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee, with a one year base period and 4-one year option periods. The estimated total contract level-of-effort is 250,000 hours. The statement of work requirements fall under NAICS code 54162. Interested small businesses must demonstrate in their capability statements that they are qualified to perform work under this NAICS code. At a minimum each small business/small disadvantaged business shall provide capabilities/experience necessary to perform work listed in "all" the above statement of work task areas. Small businesses shall submit two (2) copies of the requested information in writing to Mailing Address: U.S. EPA, Attn: Mr. Raoul D. Scott (3805R), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington DC 20460 or Hand Delivery Address: U.S. EPA, Attn: Mr. Raoul D. Scott (3805R), 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington DC 20460, NLT April 19, 2001. All information regarding this procurement will be posted on the World Wide Web at the following address as it becomes available: http://www.epa.gov/oamsrpod/hcsc/hq0113316/index.htm TELEPHONIC REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION WILL NOT BE HONORED.

Web Link

For information regarding this procurement (http://www.epa.gov/oamsrpod/hcsc/hq0113316/index.htm )

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010409/RSOL013.HTM (W-095 SN50I4E4)