R--Technical Support for NRMRL's Quality Assurance Program

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) seeks a contractor to provide technical quality system support to the National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), other Office of Research and Development (ORD) laboratories or centers, other Program Offices, or Regions in document and product reviews, activity reviews, technical quality development and support, and quality studies. ORD laboratories and centers conduct laboratory, pilot plant, and field investigations involving many subdisciplines of chemistry, biology, physics, and engineering for all media (air, water, and solids). The contract will support EPA in implementing the most current version of EPA Order 5360.1 or the revised agency quality policy. Successful contractors will supply all necessary personnel and services to support the efforts delineated by the Performance Work Statement (PWS). Services to be performed under this contract include: review of documents and products, such as program-specific quality planning documents (quality management plan), activity-specific quality planning documents (standard operating procedure), project-specific quality planning documents (quality assurance project plan), and research products (draft and final reports, conference papers, journal articles, models, and other QA tools), which may include the evaluation of experimental design or statistical approach; audits or assessments of quality systems or technical activities (systems, processes, and procedures), such as environmental sample collection and measurement activity, construction and operation of environmental technology demonstration activities, and information collection, interpretation, and reporting activities needed to characterize data quality; technical quality system development and support; and quality studies. See Cincinnati website, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd, for posted draft Performance Work Statement for this requirement. Be advised that Performance Work Statement changes are possible when the final request for proposal (RFP) is released. The proposed contract will be an indefinite delivery indefinite quantity task order contract with a base period of five years. EPA anticipates the award of one contract under this solicitation. This procurement is a small business set-aside under NAICS code 541620 with a size standard of $6,500,000. The solicitation, PR-CI-07-10726, is anticipated to be available in mid July 2007. Award is intended to be made by January 31, 2008. It may be accessed through the EPA?s home page on the World Wide Web (www.epa.gov). The direct link URL is http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. It is the responsibility of offerors to frequently check FEDBIZOPPS or the EPA website address for updates or changes. No hard copies will be available. All responsible small businesses may submit an offer, which will be considered by the agency. Numbered note 1 and 26 applies.