R -- TECHNICAL/PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT

Notice Date

January 3, 2001

Contracting Office

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

ZIP Code

45268

Solicitation Number

PR-CI-01-11665

Response Due

January 31, 2001

Point of Contact

Nancy Muzzy, 513-487-2023

E-Mail Address

Nancy Muzzy, Contracting Officer (Muzzy.Nancy@epa.gov)

Description

This announcement is for planning purposes only, to determine potential sources in preparation for a future procurement. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Water (OW), Office of Ground Water Drinking Water (OGWDW) has a requirement for a technical support services contract to assist the Agency in implementing the provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Amendments, including developing regulations and programs to protect the public health from contaminated drinking water and groundwater. The successful contractor shall provide all necessary labor, materials, services, equipment, and facilities in support of the efforts included in the scope of the Statement of Work. Services to be performed are limited to technical/analytical and logistical support, and require expertise in the following work areas: 1) collecting data and materials and preparing factual studies of a technical, scientific, engineering, or statistical nature; 2) providing logistical and administrative support in response to specific written work assignments supporting the Agency's development of drinking water and UIC regulations, future regulatory and programmatic decisions, and implementation of policies and programs; 3) providing technical and analytical support for cost, benefit, economic, financial, and regulatory analyses and assessments; 4) supporting the development of standards, criteria and program mandates being considered by the Agency relative to the requirements of the SDWA Amendments and other statutes; 5) providing technical and analytical support for environmental and analytical chemistry, statistics, engineering, hydrology, hydrogeology, microbiology, public health and risk assessment, system analysis, database management, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) efforts, as related to the requirements of the SDWA Amendments. Examples of the tasks included in the anticipated statement of work include: 1) developing industry profiles, characterization of drinking water treatment industry, and developing drinking water systems profiles; 2) providing analytical laboratory support and analytical method and criteria development support for compliance monitoring; 3) supporting identification of potential drinking water contaminants; geographic matching of contaminants, production sites and release sources; treatment and occurrence studies; modeling of chemical, radiological, and microbiological contaminant occurrence, removal, fate, and transport; 4) supporting development of vulnerability criteria, ranking of drinking water contaminants, and assessing exposure to drinking water contaminants; 5) evaluating water treatment techniques, and estimating capital, operations and maintenance costs of drinking water treatment technologies and UIC well requirements; 6) preparing technical/economic review and comment on data and studies and conducting affordability, socio-economic, cost-benefit, and cost-effectiveness analyses; 7) analyzing regulatory alternatives by performing technical/economic review and analysis; 8) supporting development, refinement, and analysis of databases for regulatory impact assessments; 9) providing logistical support, including production support, technology transfer, conference support and workshops, document preparation and distribution, public comment review, and organizing materials and reports; 10) performing literature searches, peer review of documents, and program implementation support; and 11) performing modeling and projections. Due to the varied nature of the programmatic development tasks included in this anticipated acquisition, the Agency anticipates significant subcontracting and teaming on this effort, especially to include socio-economic diversity for the procurement. The proposed contract will have a base period consisting of 12 months with four options of 12 months each, for a total potential performance period of five years. The base period, and each option period will consist of 51,620 direct labor hours, with options for an additional 51,620 direct labor hours in each period. Total maximum direct labor hours for the five year maximum period of performance in 516,200 direct labor hours. It is anticipated that a cost plus fixed fee/level of effort contract will result from this solicitation when it is issued. In an interest to furthering involvement of socio-economic concerns on potential teams, the Government is requesting capability statements from interested small and large contractors for this market search. Include in your capability statement: 1) name of firm, mailing address, point of contact's phone number and e-mail address, which will be distributed to other interested business concerns; 2) NAICS code that best describes the firm's business and the firm's size status under that code; 3) whether the firm is a small, small disadvantaged, woman-owned, HUBzone, and/or disabled veteran owned concern; 4) a statement of experience and qualifications of your concern, including the capacity (including level of effort and dollar amount) of projects completed similar to the work outlined above, and the targeted areas of your organization's expertise. Small businesses should submit appropriate documentation that demonstrates their capability to support this effort. For this requirement, a bidder's list will be prepared and distributed with the RFP, so a contact must be designated for your firm who will be responsible for handling queries from interested business concerns. Supporting documentation should be submitted to Nancy Muzzy, US EPA, Contracts Management Division, Mail Code Norwood, 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH, 45268, or by e-mail to Muzzy.Nancy@epa.gov. The deadline for this information is no later than January 31, 2001. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENT IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.

Web Link

Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts (http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn cmd)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010105/RSOL013.HTM (W-003 SN50A0C1)