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

R -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE OFFICE OF COMPLIANCE SOL PR-HQ-98-14258 POC R. Steven Frate, Contracting Officer, (202) 564-4786 WEB: click here for further information on this solicitation, http://www.epa.gov/oamhpod1/admin_placement9814258/index.htm. E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting officer via, frate.steve@epa.gov. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Compliance (OC) within the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, is soliciting contractor technical support for EPA's compliance monitoring and enforcement efforts. EPA intends to award multiple fixed-rate, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts in support of this requirement. Contractors awarded a contract under this procurement will be required to provide technical support in several areas. Contractors will be required to develop selected training courses or modify existing courses in support of OC's various programs. They will also be required to conduct and evaluate such courses. Contractors will be required to perform information management tasks such as data entry/analysis, requirements analysis/feasibility studies, software development/programming support, and other associated tasks. Contractors will be required to perform assorted analytical, review, or investigative tasks to ensure compliance with enforcement actions, enforcement agreements, enforcement orders, and permit and reporting requirements. Contractors will be required to provide multi-disciplinary and multi-media support in the performance of environmental management systems audits, multi-media compliance inspections and/or audits, and Good Laboratory Practice inspections and/or audits. Contractors will be required to provide other general support by performing sampling and sample analysis, providing sector-based support, and providing support in the area of pollution prevention. Finally, contractors will be required to provide support to EPA's outreach activities. This procurement will be conducted as a full and open competition. Each contract is anticipated to have a total period of performance of 60 months, consisting of a base period of 12 months and four options of 12 months each. It is anticipated that as many as 1,387,500 direct labor hours could be required for this effort. The solicitation should be available to prospective offerors on or about August 06, 1998. All parties interested in requesting a copy of the solicitation should submit their requests in writing to the following address: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Bid and Proposal Room (3803R), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, Attention: R. Steven Frate. Requests may also be made via e-mail at frate.steve@epa.gov. The solicitation, 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. Interested parties must forward requests to be placed on the bidders' list electronically to the e-mail address listed below. A copy of the bidders' 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 this fact to R. Steven Frate so that hard copiesof the solicitation may be provided. Only one copy of the solicitation will be issued to any corporate entity, regardless of the number of requests from one or more different geographic regions. Telephonic requests of inquiries will not be taken. (0170)

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