U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 W. Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268

B -- ON-SITE LABORATORY OPERATIONS SUPPORT IN RTP, NC SOL PR-CI-98-10257 POC J. Deanna Easley, 513-487-2027 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts Mgmt. Division, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: US EPA, easley.deanna@epamail.epa.gov. The Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division (APPCD) of the Natonal Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) located at the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina has a requirement for on-site contract services to provide laboratory technical support of the research that is directed toward solving environmental problems national in scope and importance. The APPCD serves as the U.S. EPA's center for air pollution prevention and control research and pursues this research in one-of-a-kind facilities that have been developed and refined over the past twenty years. The APPCD focuses its efforts on the study of fundamental kinetics, fuel combustion, waste incineration, flue gas cleaning, indoor air quality, global climate change, industrial pollution prevention, and emissions characterization. Services required will include the conduct of laboratory and bench- and pilot-scale research in APPCD's on-site facilities. Categories of labor required include engineers, scientists, chemists, and engineering technicians. U.S. EPA intends to award an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract for a maximum of 750,000 labor hours over a five year period. A pre-proposal conference/site visit may occur; details will be included in the RFP. 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/c for further information on this procurement as it becomes available. The RFP, amendments and other related items for this procurement will be posted to the Web site and can be downloaded. Interested parties must forward requests to be placed on the source list via Internet E-mail as stated below, via facsimile to (513) 487-2004, or to the following mailing address: U.S. EPA, Contracts Management Division, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, Attention: J. Deanna Easley. Hard copies of the RFP, amendments and other related items will not be provided without written certification that Internet capability is unavailable. The RFP will be issued on or about April 30, 1998. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by the Agency. No telephone requests will be accepted. (0064)

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