Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office, 255 East Paces Ferry Road NE, Room 405, Atlanta, Georgia 30305

B -- COMPREHENSIVE ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY SUPPORT (CASC) SOL 200-95-2955(P) DUE 071095 POC Contact Edward J. Schultz at (404) 842-6784 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contemplates awarding a contract for Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry Support (CASC). This contract will provide routine analytical chemistry support and limited specialty/short term methods development to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health~s (NIOSH) research activities. All offerors are hereby advised that as part of the evaluation process for this requirement, only offerors who can demonstrate compliance with the following ''absolute criteria'' will be considered eligible for award: The proposed laboratory and all sub-contract laboratories must be accredited by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). Confirmation of this accreditation must be provided in the proposal in the form of a copy of the accreditation certificate or other appropriate documentation. Any offeror not accredited by the due date of this Request for Proposal will not be considered eligible for award. The offeror is required to demonstrate either internally or through sub-contracts the availability of instrumentation necessary to perform standard industrial hygiene chemical analyses with the following nine instrumental techniques: (1) gas chromatography, (2) high performance liquid chromatography, (3) atomic absorption spectroscopy (both flame and graphite furnace), (4) Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry, (5) ultraviolet, visible, and infrared spectrophotometry, (6) X-ray powder diffraction, (7) ion chromatography, (8) optical microscopy, and (9) GC/mass spectrometry. Any offeror who lacks instrumentation in any one of these techniques will not be considered for eligible for award. The offeror must submit the laboratory's current quality assurance (QA) manual which meets AIHA guidelines. Any offeror who does not provide a QA manual as part of their proposal will not be considered eligible for award. The scheduled issue date is approximately May 26, 1995. NO TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL BE ACCEPTED; only written requests for this solicitation will be honored. Fax requests are acceptable; the fax number is (404) 842- 6896. Requests should cite RFP No. 200-95-2955(P). All responsible sources that meet the above requirements may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the Agency. (0129)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0022 19950510\B-0002.SOL)