--Notice of Intent to acquire open market items under a GSA BPA call order

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issues this Notice of Intent to acquire open market items under a GSA BPA call order. The U.S. EPA has awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call order in response to the Request for Quotation (RFQ) # PR-OAR-15-00360, entitled Forestry, Agriculture, and Bioenergy Modeling and Analysis under General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) 899 ? Environmental Services, Contract # GS-10F-0283K. The call order was competed under a multiple award BPA and was awarded on July 28, 2015 to Research Triangle Institute (RTI) to provide economic and biophysical analyses of land use and land use change; forest, agriculture and bioenergy-related policies, economic activities; GHG fluxes, GHG mitigation practices, and climate change impacts in the U.S. and globally. The call order has a twelve month period of performance. Two open market items were included in the accepted quotation. In accordance with FAR 8.402(f), this posting serves as public notice of the Government?s intent to modify call order # EP-B15H-00101, under EPA BPA # EP-BPA-12-H-0023, GSA FSS Contract # GS-10F-0283K to include the following open market items: ? Ohio State University Subcontract: Services providing economic modeling of complex biophysical and economic dynamics of forest management and world timber markets. The modeling efforts generate estimates of global forest carbon sequestration as well as estimates of the effects of long-term changes in policies and environmental conditions (such as climate change impacts) on forestry income, production, consumption, and environmental attributes at least 100 years into the future; ? International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Subcontract: Services providing economic modeling of biophysical and economic attributes of the agricultural, bioenergy, and forestry sectors. These modeling efforts generate estimates of the effects of long-term changes in policies and environmental conditions (such as climate change impacts) on the forestry, agricultural and bioenergy sectors. The Contracting Officer has made the determination that the open market items are necessary to successfully perform the requirements under the call order, and the inclusion of the open market items in the call order best satisfies the needs of the government. A quote was received in response to RFQ # PR-OAR-15-00360, and the prices of the open market items were determined to be fair and reasonable. Interested vendors are encouraged to provide capability statements and associated pricing. However, this Notice of Intent is NOT a Request for Quotation for competitive quotes, and this notice in no way obligates the Government to modify the existing GSA BPA call order or to award a purchase order for the open market items.