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Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNet) IV PR-HQ-08-10055

Update: July 30, 2008

The Request for Proposals (RFP) and associated documents were released today. Proposals are due September 17, 2008 by 2:00 p.m. ET in accordance with the instructions in the solicitation.

Update: June 10, 2008

Please note that the anticipated release date for the RFP has been revised to on or about July 28, 2008.

Posted: February 21, 2008

Procurement Office: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Headquarters Procurement Operations Division, Administrative Contract Service Center (3803R) 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20460

NAICS: 541620

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Air Programs (OAP), Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD) anticipates awarding a single Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity, Time-and-Materials contract with a one-year base and four one-year option periods. This procurement will be conducted as a full-and-open competition under the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 15: Contracting by Negotiation. The formal solicitation and other related information and items will be posted at this website on or about March 10, 2008. The total labor hours estimated for this effort is approximately 678,000 hours for the base and all options. The minimum amount of labor hours for each year is approximately 4,700. All responsible offerors may submit a proposal. Copies of the solicitation will be available on this site. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be provided. An RFI /Sources sought was previously posted PR-HQ-08-10055, on EPA's website and FedBizOpps. It is the responsibility of interested parties to regularly monitor EPA's website for updates to this procurement. Telephone inquiries will not be taken.

The objective of this requirement is support of the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET). CASTNET is a long-term environmental monitoring network that measures changes in ambient air quality and assesses atmospheric deposition over broad geographic regions of the U.S. Operating since 1987, CASTNET has evolved into a robust regional monitoring program which currently consists of 84 monitoring stations nationwide. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) operates a majority of the CASTNET monitoring stations. In cooperation with the EPA, the National Park Service (NPS) currently operates 25 stations. The primary monitoring objectives of CASTNET are to: Provide atmospheric data on atmospheric deposition, rural ground level ozone and other forms of atmospheric pollution; Monitor the status and trends in regional air quality and atmospheric deposition; Assess and report on geographic patterns and long-term, temporal trends in ambient air pollution and atmospheric deposition; Improve our understanding of PM and ozone formation; Validate and improve atmospheric models; Provide data for health-based research and epidemiology studies; Assess the effectiveness of EPA's emission reduction programs and Support science and ecosystem studies.

CASTNET, a long-term regional monitoring program, is critical for characterizing trends in deposition levels and identifying relationships among emissions, atmospheric loadings, ecological effects and human health. The EPA under several different mandates as well as other government agencies and the scientific community rely on the data and information from CASTNET, used in conjunction with information from other national monitoring networks (e.g., the National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network (NADP/NTN) and Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE)), to evaluate the effectiveness of air pollution control strategies for regional areas and assess chemical changes in the atmosphere. CASTNET tracks real-world environmental results over time and space as emission reductions take place. Since atmospheric changes occur very slowly and trends are often obscured by the wide variability of measurements and climate, numerous years of continuous and consistent data are required to overcome this variability.

Please review the draft Statement of Work below for more information regarding this requirement. The formal solicitation, amendments, procurement updates and other related information will be posted on this website as they become available.   Interested parties are advised to periodically monitor the EPA website for updates concerning this procurement. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. Telephone requests or inquires will not be taken.

The point of contact for this procurement is Debra Miller, Contracting Officer, at miller.debbie@epa.gov.

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