Administrative Contracts Service Center (3803R), Environmental Protection Agency, Ronald Reagan Building -- 7th Floor, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20460

R -- ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION SERVICES SOL PR-hq-98-10072 DUE 053198 POC Rodney P. Magee, Contracting Officer, (202)564-4793 WEB: click her for further information on this RFP, http://www.epa.gov/oamhpod1/admin_placement/9810072/index.htm. E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting officer via e-mail, Magee.Rodney@epamail.epa.gov. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to solicit for a fixed rate, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for provision of dispute resolution services such as facilitation, mediation, arbitration and early neutral evaluation. The purpose of this CBD announcement is to notify potential offerors of EPA's requirement, generate the bidder's list and to direct interested parties to the EPA's web site for further information as it becomes available. The objective of this procurement is to obtain contractor support services in convening, facilitating or mediating and evaluating regulatory negotiations, policy dialogues, workshops and other dispute resolution and collaborative problem solving processes. In addition, contractor support will include conducting alternative dispute resolution proceeding (for instance mediation, early neutral evaluation, mini-trials, arbitration) for site or facility specific cases such as enforcement, compliance, siting remediation and permitting disputes. Dispute resolution services for other types of case specific disputes that may be covered by EPA's ADR Policy such as workplace disputes and grants and assistance agreement disputes may also be provided by this contract. The contract will also provide training of government employees and outside parties involved in disputes or environmental issues with EPA in negotiation skills, collaborative problem solving, facilitation, mediation, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings. In addition, the procurement will provide expertise needed to provide ADR tracking systems and conduct evaluations of disputes, use of ADR, case studies and assistance in writing program resource materials. This procurement has a full and open competition designation. The proposed contract will have a total period of performance of 60 months, to include a twenty four (24) month base period, one twenty four (24) month option period and one twelve (12) month option period. The proposed contract will contain an estimated 234,000 direct labor hours. All parties interested in requesting a copy of the solicitation should submit their request in writing to either of the following addresses: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Bid and Proposal Room (3803R), Attention: Rodney P. Magee or via E-mail: magee.rodney@epamail.epa.gov. The Request for Proposal (RFP), amendments and other related items will be posted on the Internet and can be easily downloaded from the following site: "http://www.epa.gov/oam/hpod". Interested parties are advised to monitor this website for further information on this procurement as it becomes available. Currently, no information is available. Interested parties must forward requests to be placed on the bidders list to the mailing address below via E-mail. A copy of the bidder's list will be issued to all prospective offerors as an attachment to the solicitation. If Internet capability is unavailable, interested parties must submit written verification stating such to Rodney Magee so that hard copies of the solicitation may be provided. Only one copy of the solicitation will shall issued to a corporate entity, regardless of the number of requests from one or more different geographical locations. Telephonic requests or inquiries will not be honored. (0072)

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