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A -- NCEA SUPPORT FOR PEER REVIEW AND RISK ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES ACTIVITIES SOL PR-CI-98-10457 POC Billy Oden, Contracting Officer, 513-487-2126 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: U.S. EPA -- Cincinnati Contracts Management Division, oden.billy@epamail.epa.gov. As part of the USEPA Office of Research and Development (ORD), the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) recognizes the importance of maintaining high standards for the quality of the science and technical products that they produce and sponsor. NCEA acknowledges that external peer review of all its products is a primary means of ensuring that the highest standards of quality are achieved. U.S. EPA has a requirement to provide peer review services in support of NCEA responsibilities encompassing: NCEA Offices in Washington, DC, Research Triangle Park, NC, and Cincinnati, Ohio; the NCEA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program; and the Risk Assessment Forum (RAF) in Washington, D.C. Services will include: (1) performing external peer reviews on NCEA, RAF and IRIS risk assessment documents; (2) organizing peer reviews and preparing associated summary documents; (3) planning, arranging, administering, and conducting workshops and meetings in support of peer reviews; (4) preparing RAF issue papers on human health and ecological risk assessment issues; and (5) developing training programs and instructional materials to communicate the purpose and scope of the Agency's risk assessment guidelines. The results of these efforts must be able to meet NCEA's responsibilities to provide scientifically and technically sound risk assessments to the USEPA's Science Advisory Board, Program Offices and external customers, and may require further scientific and technical review and development. A detailed Statement of Work will be issued with the Solicitation. It is anticipated that the Solicitation will be issued during late July, 1998, providing for a response time of a minimum of thirty (30) days. EPA intends to award more than one Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract under the solicitation, which will use task orders to procure services. Each contract awardee will be given a fair opportunity to receive task orders, however, this type contract guarantees each contract awardee a minimum dollar amount. The contract period of performance will be a base period of 12 months, and a total of 27,600 LOE hours, commencing about February 15, 1999. The contract will contain options for two (2) additional 12 month performance periods, each containing 27,600 LOE hours, which if exercised makes the potential total contract performance term 36 months. The Base Period and each Option Period (1-2) will contain options for additional quantities of 15,000 LOE hours. EPA uses Electronic Commerce (EC) to issue Solicitations and amendments to Solicitations. The subject Solicitation and any amendments to it will be available via the Internet at the URL address shown below. Paper copies of the Solicitation will not be provided. All responsible sources may submit a proposal in response to the Solicitation which will be considered by U.S. EPA. Posted 06/25/98 (0176)

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