SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Student Services Contract
- Notice Date
- 7/21/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Environmental Protection Agency, Ord Service Center/Nerl, Rtp Procurement Operations Division, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
- ZIP Code
- 27711
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-RT-04-00353
- Response Due
- 8/5/2004
- Archive Date
- 9/5/2004
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact, Rebecca Clausen, Purchasing Agent, Phone (919) 541-3002
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(clausen.rebecca@epa.gov)
- Description
- NAICS Code: 541710 THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION SYNOPSIS FOR STUDENT LABORATORY SERVICES TO BE HIRED ON A CONTRACT BASIS BY THE US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. The solicitation number is XMV036 (RFQ-RT-04-00353). The Western Ecology Division (WED) of the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL), Office of Research and Development (ORD) at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking a recent Ph.D. graduate to provide services under a contractual agreement to assist with ecological modeling. Contractors must have received a Ph.D. within the past 2 years in ecology, hydrology, biogeochemistry, environmental science, biology or related field. Contractors must also be proficient in computer programming, as demonstrated by coursework and/or thesis project work. The Western Ecology Division (WED) is one of four ecological effects divisions of the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory. The four divisions are distributed biogeographically. WED's mission is 1) to provide EPA with national scientific leadership for terrestrial and regional-scale ecology, and 2) to develop the scientific basis for assessing the condition and response of ecological resources of the western United States and the Pacific Coast. For additional information regarding the Western Ecology Division, visit its home page at http://www.epa.gov/wed/. The contractor will assist in the development of simulation models for assessing the effects of natural and anthropogenic stressors on forested watersheds in the Pacific Northwest. The work is in support of WED's Terrestrial Habitats Project, which aims to assess the effects of multiple, interacting stressors on habitat and wildlife. The student contractor will assist in integrating a hillslope hydrology model (TOPMODEL) and an ecosystem biogeochemistry model (MBL-GEM). This task will require translation of the program codes for the existing models into a single FORTRAN-based program. The integrated model will include interactions among water and nutrient (carbon and nitrogen) cycles in vegetation and soils, at spatial and temporal scales ranging from stands to watersheds and days to centuries. The program design will need to accommodate spatially-distributed applications that simulate topographic controls on water and nutrient transport in mountainous terrain. The contract period will be from on or about October1, 2004 to August 31, 2005. All technical questions are to be forwarded via email to the contract specialist at the following e-mail address: clausen.rebecca@epa.gov. Interested parties should review all material relevant to the requirement by looking under Request for Quotation section of the EPA's website at the following address: http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd. These solicitation documents will be posted to that website 15 days after issuance of this pre-solicitation synopsis. Interested parties should go to the website and click on the link entitled "Student Services XMV036 RFQ-RT-04-00353" to check the status of this procurement and to ascertain when and if any amendments have been issued. This is a non-commercial procurement.
- Record
- SN00628018-W 20040723/040721212835 (fbodaily.com)
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