The focus of the work shall be providing general coordination and planning support for GHG capacity building projects in developing countries; providing experts who are knowledgeable on all the GHG…

This federal contract award, valued at $504,319.00, was issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Eastern Research Group Inc. (ERG), a for-profit environmental and health consulting firm. The contract provides general coordination and planning support for greenhouse gas (GHG) capacity building projects in developing countries. Key activities include:

• Providing experts to assist developing countries in producing high-quality GHG inventories and sustainable national GHG inventory systems
• Helping obtain, develop, and improve GIS maps for understanding land use conversions
• Reviewing and updating EPA tools and guidance materials for GHG inventories
• Developing and testing new tools and guidance for GHG inventories and inventory systems
• Translating tools and outreach materials into other languages

The contract is under the EPA's "Technical and Outreach Support Services for Climate Change Division" program and is a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call placed against an existing GSA Environmental Services Schedule contract. The award does not include any set-aside designations.

The focus of the work shall be providing general coordination and planning support for GHG capacity building projects in developing countries; providing experts who are knowledgeable on all the GHG inventory methodologies and activity data requirements presented in the ipcc guidelines and who are able to work in collaboration with developing countries to assist them in producing high quality GHG inventories and sustainable national GHG inventory systems; assisting with the collection and/or generation of required activity data, as specified in the ipcc guidelines for all the source/sink categories, including helping obtain, develop and improve GIS maps for use in producing a consistent representation of a countrys land base and understanding the land use conversions; reviewing and updating existing EPA tools and associated guidance materials (e.g., developing a national GHG inventory system template workbook); developing and testing new tools and various guidance materials for producing GHG inventories and ensuring sustainable inventory systems, including training presentations on use and application of the tools; preparing presentation, outreach and publication materials to be used in the implementation of the capacity building projects; translating existing and new tools and outreach materials into other languages.