SOLICITATION NOTICE
P -- Recycling Electronics & Asset Disposition Services
- Notice Date
- 2/5/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Environmental Protection Agency, Administrative Contract Service Center, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw, Washington, DC 20460
- ZIP Code
- 20460
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-DC-03-00115
- Archive Date
- 4/5/2003
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact, Oliver Voss, Purchasing Agent, Phone (202) 564-4514
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(OLIVER VOSS)
- Description
- NAICS Code: 562998 Market Survey/Sources Sought: The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Environmental Information's (OEI) is conducting a market survey through this FedBizOpps notification to identify companies that have the capability to provide recycling, reclamation, and/or asset disposition services for a variety of electronics equipment; including: personal computer desktops, laptops, printers, scanners, LAN equipment, copying machines, phones, palm pilots, cell phones, etc. EPA is currently in the process of fulfilling an Agency requirement for the recycling of electronic equipment and properly disposing of Agency electronic assets as part of its ongoing mission to protect the environment. EPA recognizes that there is a Government-wide need to address an expected avalanche of obsolete electronic equipment in the near future. In order to enhance public health and environmental protection, OEI eventually plans to award a Recycling Electronics and Asset Disposition (READ) contract to provide the entire Federal sector with a procurement tool to recycle and properly dispose of excess or obsolete electronic personal property in an environmentally responsible manner. According to a study by the National Safety Council, over 30 million personal computers become obsolete each year in the U.S. alone, with higher numbers likely to follow. EPA anticipates issuing a multiple award contract that will require contractors to perform one or more of the following functions: (1) Refurbishing and reconfiguring electronic equipment and identifying a market to resell that equipment; (2) Donating refurbished equipment to educational institutions or other Government Agencies per the requirements of Executive Order 12999; (3) Dismantling electronic equipment that has been determined to be beyond an upgrade or refurbishment. Reclamation of this type of equipment will involve having the ability to identify which parts can be recycled for possible use in other equipment, which parts can be resold on the market, and which parts have no useful market value and must be properly disposed or recycled; (4) For older equipment that has been determined to have no useful market value, the contractor will determine the proper and safe methods for disposal of the equipment, will coordinate with the Agency to obtain approval for the method of disposal, and will be responsible for the recycling or disposal of the identified equipment; and (5) creating an audit trail on the equipments' components final location and providing certification regarding the final disposition of all electronic equipment handled by the company. If your company has the capability to provide any of these types of services, please submit a written notification to voss.oliver@epa.gov. In the near future, EPA will post its plans for fulfilling this requirement at www.epa.gov/oam/hpod under the Sources Sought icon, and will invite comments on the Statement of Objectives (SOO) developed to fulfill this requirement.
- Record
- SN00253890-W 20030207/030205213835 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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