A--On Site Technical Support for Research Activities at Corvallis and Newport, Oregon

Subject: A--Technical On-Site Support at the USEPA Western Ecology Division in Corvallis and Newport, Oregon Solicitation No. PR-NC-05-10030 Description: This publication serves as a Notice of Intent for the US Environmental Protection Agency to acquire contractor services to provide on-site technical support to the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL), Office of Research and Development (ORD), Western Ecology Division (WED) in Corvallis and Newport, Oregon. The WED is a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary research laboratory that performs state-of-the-art research. Our website http://www.epa.gov/wed/ provides an overview of WED and the types of research conducted on terrestrial, freshwater, wetland, riparian, and estuarine/marine environmental studies. The successful contractor will provide technical support both on-site at WED facilities in Corvallis and Newport and (for short periods) at off-site and remote field sites (within the USA). The contractor shall: perform chemical, physical, biological, biochemical, statistical, geographical, and other standardized analyses; collect, acquire, store, categorize, integrate, and synthesize data and information; collect, format, process, document and provide quality control of samples and informational information from the laboratory and field; prepare, maintain, and update technical records, logbooks, QA records, and databases for work performed; operate and adapt specialized sampling, monitoring, analytical, and experimental equipment; provide statistical design and analysis support; design, develop, and implement simulation and statistical models; conduct sophisticated scientific analyses; conduct literature searches and provide factual reports on current scientific knowledge and methods; compile, organize, and summarize existing environmental data and geographic coverages and evaluate their utility; prepare and document alternative scientific methods for obtaining and analyzing information and recommend methodology for EPA approval; prepare high quality, written, and oral, scientific and technical reports on research results and work performed including publishing findings in peer-reviewed scientific literature; provide technical editing, statistical, and graphical support in the form of tables and figures for research publications and oral or written presentations; provide technical support for technology transfer operations to EPA program offices, regions, and other appropriate parties; participate in national and international scientific meetings through presentation of technical papers, organization, and facilitation of special symposia; provide peer review of scientific and technical documents prepared by EPA; and propose and implement quality assurance and quality control requirements. The Government anticipates a cost-plus-award-fee, level-of-effort-term-type contract with a 12-month base and four 12-month option periods for a total contract period of performance of 60 months. The base contract period and each base option period will consist of 30,000 hours. The Base contract period will have an option of up to 62,225 additional hours; Option 1 of the contract period will have an option of up to 62,191 additional hours; Option 2 of the contract period will have an option of up to 55,006 additional hours; Option 3 of the contract period will have an option of up to 55,006 additional hours; and Option 4 of the contract period will have an option of up to $55,006 additional hours. This will result in a maximum potential of 439,434 hours. The anticipated contract effective date for this procurement is 01/01/06. This is a small business set aside. This procurement represents a follow-on to contract 68-D-01-005. The applicable NAICS is 541710 with a size standard of 500 employees. The anticipated release date of the Request for Proposals (RFP) is on or about 05/15/05. The EPA anticipates a preproposal conference to be held in Corvallis, Oregon, 7-10 days after release of the RFP. Proposals will be due approximately 30 days later. The RFP and any subsequent amendments will be available ONLY via the Internet World Wide Web at http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd/. No telephone or facsimile requests will be honored.