MODIFICATION
B -- Support to Consolidate, Review and Evaluate Toxicology Scientific Data Pesticides
- Notice Date
- 3/21/2008
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 541620
— Environmental Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Bid and Proposal Room, Ariel Rios Building (3802R) 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20460
- ZIP Code
- 20460
- Solicitation Number
- PR-HQ-08-10737
- Response Due
- 4/7/2008
- Archive Date
- 5/7/2008
- Point of Contact
- NICOLE C. HUMPHREY, Contract Specialist, Phone: (202)564-4379, E-Mail: humphrey.nicole@epa.gov; CHRISTINE EDWARDS, Placement Contracting Officer, Phone: 202-564-2182, E-Mail: edwards.christine@epa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to NICOLE C. HUMPHREY
(humphrey.nicole@epa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The purpose of this modification is to clarify/correct the stated NAICS codes. The appropriate NAICS code for this requirement is 541620 - Environmental Consulting Services, with a Small Business size standard of $6.5 Million. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged and in full force and effect. Original Synopsis: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (OPPTS), Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is soliciting potential offerors, in order to competitively award a cost reimbursement contract for services involving the consolidation, review, and evaluation of toxicology scientific data on pesticides, using Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 15 ? Contracting by Negotiation Procedures. The Environmental Protection Agency and the states (generally the State Department of Agriculture) register or license pesticides for use in the United States. In addition, anyone planning to import pesticides for use in the U.S. is required to notify EPA. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/7/ch6.html) provides EPA the authority to register pesticides.Under the mandates of FIFRA and the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, and modified by the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA), a pesticide may be registered if its use will not result in unreasonable risks or unreasonable adverse effects to humans or the environment. The EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) has instituted procedures for the registration and ongoing re-registration of pesticides. Data submitted by pesticide manufacturers (registrants), other EPA programs, other Federal agencies, the states, Indian tribes, cities, municipalities and private citizens, and data published in public, open literature are used to determine whether pesticides and their proposed uses may pose an unreasonable adverse effect on human health and the environment. OPP evaluates the data and determines whether the data are adequate for regulatory decision-making or whether additional data are required from the registrants, performs hazard and risk assessments on the data to decide whether the pesticide or its proposed uses should be registered in compliance the FIFRA, and determines whether new procedures or methodologies for estimating possible pesticide hazards to human must be developed. Under the proposed contract, the Contractor shall: 1) Review and Evaluation of Health-related Pesticide Toxicity Data; 2) Test Guideline Support; 3) Pathology Evaluations; 5) Special Projects: Evaluations of Complex Toxicological Data and Issues; and 6) Conduct Backup Literature Search and Hard Copy Acquisition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 541620. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR TECHNICAL OR COST PROPOSALS. Interested parties may access http://www.epa.gov/oamhpod1/oppts_grp/0810737/index.htm for a draft copy of the Statement of Work and sample templates. A response to this pre-solicitation notice is not required in order to submit a quote when the RFQ is made available. This notice serves solely to notify the public of the Government's upcoming requirement. The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be available on or after April 7, 2008, with a 30-day response time at the above-mentioned website location. Contractors are urged to visit the mentioned EPA website frequently for any updates or changes to this requirement. The point of contact for this announcement is Nicole Humphrey, Contract Specialist, at humphrey.nicole@epa.gov.
- Web Link
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The Environmental Protection Agency
(http://www.epa.gov/oam/hpod)
- Record
- SN01538954-W 20080323/080321224901 (fbodaily.com)
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