SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- CASTNET V Clean Air Status and Trends Network - Attachment
- Notice Date
- 7/7/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541620
— Environmental Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- HPOD US Environmental Protection Agency William Jefferson Clinton Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Mail Code: 3803R Washington DC 20460 USA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- SOL-DC-15-00056
- Response Due
- 8/7/2015
- Archive Date
- 10/7/2016
- Point of Contact
- Tillison, Diane
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- SOW THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT/ REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) FOR WRITTEN INFORMATION ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is performing a market search for large and small businesses in preparation for a future procurement. The EPA has a need for a contractor to provide analytical support for the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET) of The Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD), Office of Atmospheric Programs (OAP) located in the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR). This Sources Sought /Request for Information (RFI) is for the support and operation of the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET). CASTNET is a long-term environmental monitoring network that measures changes in ambient air quality and atmospheric deposition over broad geographic regions of the United States. Operating since 1987, CASTNET has evolved into a robust regional monitoring program which currently consists of 93 monitoring stations nationwide. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) operates a majority of the CASTNET monitoring stations. In cooperation with the EPA, the National Park Service (NPS) currently operates 25 stations and the Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office operates 5 stations. The primary monitoring objectives of CASTNET are to: provide atmospheric data on atmospheric deposition, rural ground level ozone and other forms of atmospheric pollution; monitor the status and trends in regional air quality and atmospheric deposition; assess and report on geographic patterns and long-term, temporal trends in ambient air pollution and atmospheric deposition; improve our understanding of secondary PM and ozone formation; assess compliance with the EPA NAAQS; validate and improve atmospheric models; provide data for health-based research and epidemiology studies; assess the effectiveness of EPA ¿s emission reduction programs; and support science and ecosystem studies. CASTNET is critical for characterizing trends in deposition levels and identifying relationships among emissions, atmospheric loadings, ecological effects and human health. The EPA under several different mandates, as well as other government agencies and the scientific community, rely on the data and information from CASTNET, used in conjunction with information from other national monitoring networks (e.g., the National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network (NADP/NTN) and Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE)), to evaluate the effectiveness of air pollution control strategies for regional areas and assess chemical changes in the atmosphere. CASTNET tracks real-world environmental results over time and space as emission reductions take place. Since atmospheric changes occur very slowly and trends are often obscured by the wide variability of measurements and climate, numerous years of continuous and consistent data are required to overcome this variability. Please review the draft Statement of Work for more information regarding this requirement. The formal solicitation, amendments, procurement updates and other related information will be posted on FedBizOpps and FedConnect as they become available. Interested parties are advised to periodically monitor these websites for updates concerning this procurement. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Air Programs (OAP), Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD) anticipates awarding a single Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity, Time-and-Materials contract with a one-year base and four one-year option periods (for a total of five years). This procurement will be conducted as a full-and-open competition under the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 15: Contracting by Negotiation. Interested parties who believe they can meet the requirements may submit a brief capability statement, no more than five (5) single-sided pages, demonstrating how they are capable of meeting this requirement. Standard brochures and/or paraphrasing of the Statement of Work will not be considered sufficient to demonstrate the capabilities of an interested party. Additionally, interested parties must submit their laboratory accreditation certificate for the analyses listed in the draft Statement of Work (Table 3) or a statement for how they plan to meet EPA ¿s Policy Directive titled, Policy to Assure Competency of Laboratories, Field Sampling, and Other Organizations Generating Environmental Measurement Data under Agency-Funded Acquisitions (http://www.epa.gov/fem/pdfs/fem-lab-competency-policy.pdf). Feedback and/or evaluation information will not be provided to any firm regarding their individual capability statements. Telephone calls and/or requests for a solicitation will not be accepted or acknowledged. The capability statement should include the following: (1) Name of business; (2) Contact information (address, telephone, e-mail, web address); (3) DUNS number, business size and classification; (4) GSA contract number and period of performance (if a vendor has a GSA contract that fulfills the requirements in the draft Statement of Work; this requirement is not anticipated to be a GSA award); (5) Technical description of ability to meet the requirement (description should address technical competencies and organizational experience relevant to the key task areas in the draft Statement of Work); (6) Laboratory accreditation certificate for methods listed in the draft Statement of Work; (7) Discussion of any potentially significant organizational conflicts of interest; and (8) Any comments or concerns regarding the draft Statement of Work or subject procurement. Business shall submit electronic copies of their capability statements to Melissa Puchalski at puchalski.melissa@epa.gov and Rob Gray at gray.roberta@epa.gov no later than August 7, 2015. NAICS 541620-Environmental Consulting Services applies. This requirement is a follow-on to contract number EP-W-15-003 with Amec Foster Wheeler which will expire on January 8, 2016.
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