U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 W. Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268

A -- TECHNICAL QUALITY ASSURANCE SUPPORT TO THE ORD/NCERQA/QAD SOL ORD/NCERQA/QAD DUE 012199 POC J. Deanna Easley, 513-487-2027 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: U.S. EPA -- Cincinnati Contrcts Management Division, easley.deanna@epamail.epa.gov. THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT FOR WRITTEN INFORMATION ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE MADE FOR ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND ANY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION REQUESTS. NO TELEPHONE CALLS REQUESTING A SOLICITATION WILL BE ACCEPTED OR ACKNOWLEDGED. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. The Environmental Protection Agency is performing a market search for contractors who can provide technical support services to the EPA Office of Research & Development (ORD), National Center for Environmental Research and Quality Assurance (NCERQA), Quality Assurance Division (QAD) in support of its quality assurance activities involving environmentally related measurements. The range of activities will cover the peer review activities and a wide variety of related statistical and technical analyses. The entire spectrum of the QAD activities may be group into four broad areas: (1) Technical Guidance (drafting non-mandatory written guidance concerning the application of technical and statistical quality assurance operations to data collection and interpretation); (2) Quality Implementation (supporting the implementation of quality assurance activities); (3) Communications (exposition of QA practices and techniques through the preparation and presentation of technical training workshops); and (4) Cross-Program Systems (recording and summarizing on-going Agency QA meetings and committees). The applicable SIC Code is 8731 with a size standard of 500 employees. 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 maximum potential total contract performance term is 60 months. Interested offerors should provide information that demonstrates corporate experience in any of the following technical areas: developing technical guidance, applying QA protocols, and supporting the implementation of QA programs. Additionally, interested offerors should provide information that demonstrates availability of highly competent and experienced personnel to perform the types of activities described above. ANY INTERESTED FIRM SHOULD SUBMIT A BRIEF CAPABILITY STATEMENT (maximum of 3 pages) WHICH DEMONSTRATES THE FIRM'S ABILITY TO PROVIDE THE REQUIREMENT DISCUSSED ABOVE. STANDARD COMPANY BROCHURES ARE NOT DESIRED. INFORMATION SHOULD FOCUS ON THE CAPABILITY TO PROVIDE THE TECHNICAL SERVICES IDENTIFIED ABOVE. FIRMS SHALL INDICATE THEIR SIZE STATUS FOR THE ABOVE-REFERENCED SIC CODE (LARGE, SMALL, 8(a), SMALL DISADVANTAGED). THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF THE CAPABILITY STATEMENT IS JANUARY 21, 1999. This document should be submitted in duplicate to J. Deanna Easley, Contract Specialist, Contracts Management Division, 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268-7001. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be issued in March 1999. Posted 01/07/99 (W-SN286133). (0007)

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