EPA, ADP Placement Section (3803F), 401 M St. SW, Washington, DC 20460-0001

D -- SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SUPPORT SERVICES POC James A. Stefan, Contracting Officer (202) 260-9691 WEB: N/A,. E-MAIL: N/A,. A solicitation will not be issued from this synopsis. This synopsis provides notification that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to increase, on a sole source basis, the total contract ceiling under EPA Contract 68-W1-0055 with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), 200 North Glebe Road, Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22203. The contract ceiling will be increased from $140,048,700 by $75,000,000 to $215,048,700. The period of performance of EPA Contract 68-W1-0055 remains unchanged. SAIC is the only qualified responsible source which can meet the Government's requirement to provide continued support under EPA's Mission Oriented Systems Engineering Support Contract, without significant cost and schedule impacts, until a replacement contract is competitively awarded to provide ongoing services. The contractor will continue to provide a variety of Agency-wide Information Resources Management (IRM)systems engineering life cycle support by maintaining and managing the Systems Development Center located in Arlington, VA. The contractor will continue to provide the Agency with consistent systems engineering discipline to system development and enhancement projects to facilitate sharing of data, design, code, and products. Representative support activities include: (1) support for the Gateway/Envirofacts initiative to provide EPA with the ability to give environmental managers and the public access to a wide range of information necessary to support effective decision making; (2) support for the Information and Data Management Service Center project to provide systems development efforts by providing specialized programmatic and technical expertise in data standardization, data administration, data registry development, information architecture development, and data modeling for the Agency; (3) support for the operation and maintenance tasks of the EPA's integrated payroll and personnel system, Payroll System and the Time and Attendance, Personnel/Payroll Data Entry System; (4) support for the Year 2000 Project to assist the Agency in assessing the impact on information systems and plan the necessary steps to bring the affected systems into compliance; (5) support for the Office of Water's Safe Drinking Water Information System, which is a central database to collect, store and retrieve data associated with implementation of the Public Water System Supply Supervision program of the Safe Drinking Water Act; (6) support for the Office of Water's Storage and Retrieval System database, which provides storage and management of ambient water quality and biological data; and (7) support for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response to enhance the Resource Conservation and Recovery Information System and the Biennial Reporting System. Inquiries must reference the above contract number and be addressed in writing to U.S. EPA, Attention: James A. Stefan (3803F), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460. SEE NUMBERED Note 22. (0007)

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