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On-Site Operations Support of the Test and Evaluation (T&E) Facility and other ORD/NRMRL Facilities in Cincinnati, Ohio (PR-CI-08-10962)
The U.S. EPA’s National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) has a requirement
for research support at its T&E (Test and Evaluation) Facility located in Cincinnati, OH; for
facility operations and other support for the T&E facility, and for support to other NRMRL
Cincinnati satellite facilities located in Cincinnati and in Milford, OH. NRMRL is responsible
for conducting environmental research, testing, evaluation, development and demonstration
verification studies related to water monitoring, contaminant warning systems, water
contamination detection research with various sensors, water infrastructure decontamination,
water security experiments, drinking water treatment, infrastructure, source water treatment,
watershed management, storm water, bio-sentinel urban water cycles, climate change, solids
management, nano-technology and hazardous waste treatment. In addition to research support,
facility operations and support for the T&E facility and finally, support to other NRMRL
Cincinnati satellite facilities will also be performed by the contractor.
The T&E facility holds a State of Ohio EPA Director's Exemption under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). This categorizes the T&E as a Treatment, Storage and
Disposal Facility (TSDF). It permits the Facility to accept, store, and treat a wide variety of
hazardous wastes in a wide variety of unit processes.
The objective of this solicitation is to provide research support for the numerous research
activities conducted at the T&E facility, to provide facility operations and support for the T&E
facility, and to support the other NRMRL Cincinnati Satellite Facilities in their research projects
at the Center Hill facility in Cincinnati, the Experimental Streams Research Facility in Milford,
Ohio, and a small laboratory annex to the main Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental
Research Center (AWBERC-Cincinnati).
Interested parties should reference the ‘draft’ Performance Work Statement and its attachments
for specific requirements. The ‘Standard Operating Procedures Manual (SOP) referenced in the
‘draft’ PWS will be made available upon the issuance of the Solicitation.
Significant potential exists for an organizational conflict of interest under this procurement, due
to the monitoring requirements and the nature of the other work activities to be performed.
Therefore, offerors will be required to submit a COI Plan with their proposal, in response to the
Solicitation, requiring them to identify the projects they are working on and to explain how
potential or actual organizational conflicts of interest can be mitigated, avoided or neutralized.
The government anticipates award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee, term, Level of Effort (LOE) contract.
The estimated LOE includes one, 12-month base period of 7,980 base hours, and 71,415 hours
for the base period quantity option. In addition, four, 12-month option periods of 10,230 hours
each and their corresponding quantity options of 126,935 hours each, are anticipated. The total
potential LOE for the base period is 79,395 hours and 137,165 hours for the other four option
periods. The maximum total LOE for all periods (five years) on the contract is 628,055 hours.
The NAICS code is 541712, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life
Sciences. The applicable size standard is 500 employees.
The solicitation will be issued on a full and open competitive basis; it will not be a small
business set-aside. Copies of the solicitation will be available to all offerors on the Internet at
the following website: www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. Interested parties are expected to
download the solicitation and subsequent amendments from the website and to monitor the status
of the RFP. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by EPA.
The anticipated release date is late November and the close date is approximately 30 days
thereafter. Contract award will be made in accordance with Far Part 15, Contracting by
Negotiation. See Note 26.
The incumbent contract is EP-C-04-034 with Shaw. It is scheduled to expire on 05/31/09.