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

R -- REVIEW OF LOCAL TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS SOL 98-03045 DUE 081498 POC Rodney P. Magee, Contracting Officer, (202)564-4793 E-MAIL: Click here to contact Contracting Officer via email, Magee.Rodney@epamail.epa.gov. The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking firms that can perform the work contained within this announcement. The Energy and Transportation Sectors Division (ETSD) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeks to devise, promote and disseminate environmental strategies that are economically efficient in the energy and transportation sectors. The purpose of this work is to develop and test a methodology to identify the range of options that local residents believe should be considered for transportation planning services. EPA is required to review environmental assessments of transportation projects conducted as part of the National Environmental Policy Act review process. This NEPA review process includes consideration of alternative transportation proposals that create less environmental damage. In order to insure that all reasonable alternatives are considered, it is necessary to identify what alternatives residents located near the project want considered. This project will use focus groups to solicit input from residents to help identify these alternative transportation options. The contractor must have experience working with the federal government, non-profit organizations and businesses. The contractor must have an extensive track record and history of success in assessing behavior to achieve environmental and health goals. Contractor personnel must have knowledge of and experience in, the field of social marketing. The contractor must have experience doing audience based research to identify motivation for and barriers to changing behavior. The contractor must have experience researching attitudes toward transportation, environment, health and sustainability issues. The contractor must have experience with focus group research and primary data collection. The contractor must have an extensive database on attitudes toward environmental, health and sustainability issues. This proposed procurement will be for approximately 1285 direct labor hours. All response to this announcement must be received by 08/14/98. Posted 07/30/98 (W-SN230378). (0211)

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