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Technical Support for Coastal Pollution Issues (PR-CI-07-11333)
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.