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A -- TECHNICAL LABORATORY SUPPORT FOR THE NATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT RESEARCH LABORATORY QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM SOL PR-CI-98-12250 POC Kathleen Roe, phone (513)487-2144, fax (513)487-2107 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts Management Division, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: U.S. EPA Cincinnati Contracts Management Division, roe.kathleen@epamail.epa.gov. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Risk Management Research Laboratory has a requirement for quality assurance technical services to support research and development activities on a continuing, quick-turnaround basis. Types of activities to be provided are: (1) evaluation of data acquired by EPA to ensure that data are reliable, valid, and of known quality; (2) assessment of methods and technologies for controlling, preventing, and characterizing emissions; (3) determination of the compatibility of available procedures or proposed modifications of procedures for analyzing multimedia samples; (4) conduct special studies and investigations of QA/QC procedures for various measurement activities; (5) provision of analytical laboratory technical support, including supplying technical experts for audits, conducting audits at field sites, preparing audit checklists, and/or preparing or validating materials, plans; (6) review of technical documents for accuracy and validity of research results;(7) documentation of program-specific quality assurance procedures and manuals. EPA anticipates awarding a Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Level-of-Effort type contract comprising a 12 month base period plus four, 12 month option periods of 2,064 hours each, totaling 10,320 potential hours for the base plus option periods. Solicitation PR-CI-98-12250 is expected to be issued in late May and close 30 days thereafter. It will will be available on the Internet. Interested parties should download the solicitation and subsequent amendments from the web site given below. Hard copies will not be issued. It is the reader's responsibility to frequently check the site for any amendments. See Numbered Note 26. (0106)

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