Description
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Oceans and Coastal Protection Division (OCPD), in Washington, DC, requires contractor support for costal pollution issues. OCPD operates under the following legislation: the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act; Clean Water Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act; Water Resources Development Act; Shore Protection Act; Clean Vessel Act; National Environmental Policy Act; Clean Air Act. Program areas to be supported by the resultant contract include: the National Estuary Program, coastal watersheds, ocean disposal, pollution control, technology transfer, smart growth, marine debris, coral reefs, invasive species, and impact assessments and monitoring of marine discharges/costal waters. The successful contractor shall provide personnel and services in support of activities such as: - studying individual pollution problems and pollution impacts; - compliance information collection and analysis; - data collection and analysis; training, enforcement, regulatory development and direct program implementation; health risk assessments of the consumption of chemically contaminated fish or shellfish analysis and control of the spectrum of floatable aquatic debris, its possible sources on land and through its transport via runoff. It is anticipated that the following experience and expertise will be required to successfully perform under the resultant contract: (A) Expert knowledge of and experience in taking surface water samples and debris, water column, benthic, sediment, and biological matter samples; implementing field sample surveys; conducting on-shore and on-ship physical, chemical and biological analysis of samples (e.g., air, biota, debris, water, tissue and sediment) obtained during survey cruises and studies of the environment. The contractor may be required to design, fabricate, and test specialized (often one-of-a-kind) hardware needed during air, water microlayer, water, and biota sampling and analysis tasks. (B) Extensive experience and expertise analyzing water pollution factors and other environmental factors that contribute to water pollution, and provide technical support in assessing and predicting the effects of these factors on the environment, and on plant, animal and human health. (C) Experience and expertise in examining the spectrum of floatable aquatic debris, including it?s possible sources on land, through it?s transport via runoff, storm drains, and other means to the various waterbodies, such as lakes, rivers, oceans and estuaries. (D) Extensive experience and expertise controlling vessel discharges, providing technical support in assessing control technologies and predicting the effects of discharges on the environment. (E) Expertise in studying the effects of material disposed or discharged in the ocean, including the manner in which the material disperses and its immediate and long term effects on the environment. (F) Expertise in organizing and facilitating the accessibility of the data gathered during performance of this contract. This support area will serve to organize the data so it can be used to predict pollution impacts, short-term and long-term environmental effects, and successful control strategies that could lessen the environmental impacts. (G) Expertise and experience in arranging public outreach and facilitating, and preparing final reports for meetings, workshops, conferences and training for the development, facilitation, and conducting technical management workshops, public briefings, and conferences related to OCPD program responsibilities and objectives. (H) Expertise in peer review and/or expert technical review of documents or products developed by EPA. (I) Expertise in evaluating the possible ways to reduce water pollution at its source, as well as economic and other incentives to encourage minimizing pollution. The RFP will be competed using full and open competition. The NAICS code designation for the acquisition being 541611. The EPA anticipates awarding a Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Level-of-Effort type contract. The contract will be comprised of a 12-month base period with four (4) additional 12-month option periods of 10,000 hours each, with an additional 11,000 of optional quantity hours each year. The potential hours for the base, option periods, and optional quantity hours total 105,000 hours. The solicitation is expected to be issued no earlier than February 19, 2008 and no later than March 19, 2008 on EPA?s website: http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. This office does not intend to mail hard copies of the solicitation. It is the responsibility of the offerors to frequently check the EPA website for updates or changes. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. A copy of the intended Performance Work Statement and Conflict of Interest Disclosure requirements can also be found at http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. These documents are not final in nature but reflect EPA?s intention at this time. See numbered Note 26.