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B -- CHEMICAL ANALYTICAL SERVICES FOR MULTI-MEDIA ORGANICS SOL PR-HQ-98-00031 DUE 072298 POC Hildy Pollard 202 564-4507 WEB: Click here to view or download a copy of the IFB, http://www.epa.gov/oam/srpod/pollard/hq9800031/index.htm. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer via, pollard.hildy@epamail.epa.gov. The Environmental Protection Agency=s Office of Emergency and Remedial Response has a requirement for Chemical Analytical Organic Services for the analysis of hazardous waste field samples for multimedia, multi-concentration analyses using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and gas chromatography/electron capture detector (GC/ECD) techniques. The SIC code is 8734. Contractors will be required to utilize approved analytical methods, to follow quality control procedures and to prepare and submit hardcopy data and an electronic diskette deliverable within 21, 14, or 7 days, as specified in accordance with the Statement of Work. The contractor may also be required to submit preliminary analytical results within 48 or 72 hours. This procurement has been changed to utilized sealed bidding vice a negotiated procurement. The sealed bidding process will incorporate a qualification requirement as stated previously requiring (1) the contractor to satisfactorily analyze one round of pre-award PerformanceEvaluation (PE) samples(s), and submit data within 14 days in accordance with a defined format and, (2) the contractor to successfully pass a Contractor Compliance Screening audit. In addition, successful bidders will be required to meet responsibility determinations as required by the Federal Acquisition Regulations including, but not limited to, a past performance audit, an equipmentavailability audit, and on-site pre-award inspection. See Clause L3, INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS, in the attached draft IFB for further explanation of award process. This procurement is anticipated to result in a maximum of 26 bid lots. The Base and Option periods in each contract will have minimum of 75 samples and maximum of 1200 samples per bid lot. Bidders may bid on any number of bid lots. Contracts will be competitively awarded at Fixed Price Indefinite Quantity/Delivery Order Contracts with a Base Period of (12months), Option I (12 months), and Option II (12 months). The anticipated release date for the Invitation for Bids (IFB) is July 22, 1998. A determination has been made by the Contacting Officer that the Service Contract Act (SCA) does not apply. A clause will be incorporated into the resulting contracts requiring the retroactive incorporation at the applicable SCA Wage Determination at no change in the contract prices should the Government determine post-award that contractor is utilizing more than 20% covered service employee. The purpose of this CBD announcement is to notify potential bidders of EPA's requirement, generate the bidders list, and direct interested parties to the EPA's ADoing Business with EPA@ Internet World Wide Web site at http://www.epa.gov/oam. Potential bidders who have contacted EPA previously are not required to notify us again . The IFB and other related documents for this procurement will be posted on this Web site and can be downloaded. Interested parties must forward request to be placed on the bidders list via Internet E-mail pollard.hildy@epamail.epa.gov LINKURL:http://www.epa.gov/oam/srpod/pollard/hq9800031, via facsimile (202) 565-2557, or to mailing address; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 401 M Street SW, Superfund/RCRA Regional Procurement Operation Division, Enforcement and Laboratory Analysis Service Center, Laboratory Analysis Team (3805R), Washington, DC 20460-0001, Att.: Hildy Pollard (Off. No. 61174). If you do not have Internet capabilities, hard copies of the IFB, amendments and other related items will not be provided without written request on your firm's letterhead. You may submit written request via E-mail or facsimile to Hildy Pollard so that hard copies of these documents may be provided. The Invitation for Bids (IFB) will be issued approximately 15 days after this CBD issuance. Posted 07/06/98. (0187)

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