U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, RCPB Superfund Procurement (3805F), 401 M St. SW, Washington, DC 20460-0001

J -- MAINTENANCE, REPAIR & BUILDING OF EQUIPMENT SOL HQ-97-11953 POC Michelle Barrett, Contract Specialist, (202) 564-4481 WEB: Operation, Maintenance, Repair of Research Vessel and Workboats, http://www.epa.gov/oamsrpod/barrett/hq9711953/index.htm. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contract specialist via e-mail, barrett.michelle@epamail.epa.gov. The Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) requires services to provide for the operation, maintenance, repar and scheduled dry-docking of any United States Environmental Protection Agency monitoring and research vessels assigned to the GLNPO. It is anticipated that this will be a competitive, firm-fixed price contract. These vessels primarily operate within the Great Lake basin. Limited assignments are possible outside of the Great Lakes. The R/V Lake Guardian and R/V Mudpuppy are in Bay City, MI. Operation of a warehouse support facility is required in Bay City and Milwaukee, WI. These vessels and their respective limnology equipment and laboratory facilities represent means to safely obtain water and sediment samples anywhere in the Great Lakes and the connecting waterways. The anticipated release date for the RFP is the week of September 22, 1997. The anticipated contract will have a 12 month base period and three 12 month option periods. The purpose of this CBD announcement is to notify potential offerors of EPA's requirement, generate a source list, and to direct interested parties to the EPA's "Doing Business with EPA" Internet World Wide Web site at http://www.epa.gov/oam for other information on this procurement as it becomes available. The RFP, amendments and other rlated items for this procurement will be poste on this web site and can be dounloaded. Interested parties must forward requests to be placed on the source list via Internet E-mail as sted below, via fascimile to (202) 565-2558, or to the mailing address that follows: U.S. EPA, 401 M St., SW, Superfund/RCRA Procurement Operations Division, Regional/Remedial Service Center (3805R), Washington, DC 20460-0001, ATTN: Michelle Barrett. If an Offeror does not have the capability to access this information on the Internet, they are asked to submit written certification of this fact, via E-mail or FAX to the Contract Specialist, Michelle Barrett. LINKURL: http://www.epa.gov/oamsrpod/barrett/hq9711953/index.htm EMAILADD: barrett.michelle@epamail.epa.gov (0240)

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