EPA Disaster Resilience Assistance Blanket Purchas

EPA Disaster Resilience Assistance Blanket Purchase Agreement

The purpose of this solicitation amendment is to:

1. Issue EPA's responses to the open Q&A period which ended on 11/20/20 at 2:30 PM EST. (See Attachment 9)

2. To correct the Contracting Specialist's email address listed in the solicitation cover page. The correct email address is Fox.Daniel@epa.gov

3. To remove the following language from the Technical Proposal Instructions: "It is mandatory that offers include statements that the method of pricing accurately reflects the costs of the disaster resilience assistance services." (See Attachment 10)

4. To remove the following language from the Technical Proposal Instructions: "Proposals signed by an agent shall be accompanied by evidence of that agent¿s authority;" (See Attachment 10)

5. To issue an extension to the response due date by one week from Thursday, December 10th, 2020 at 5:00 PM EST to Thursday, December 17th, 2020 at 5:00 PM EST.

RFQ Title: EPA Disaster Resilience Assistance Blanket Purchase Agreement

Agency: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Program Office: Office of the Administrator (OA), Office of Policy (OP), Office of Community Revitalization (OCR)

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2020-05. All applicable provisions and clauses are included in the attached RFQ. The pricing document attached to the RFQ (Attachment 6) should be used by offerors to submit their price quote. Offerors must address all aspects of the Governments requirement as set forth in this RFQ including the technical evaluation factors (Attachment 3). For full quote instructions, please see Technical Proposal Instructions (Attachment 2).

Description:

This is a Request for Quotes (RFQ) soliciting disaster resilience assistance in support of OCR's mission. A prospective offeror would provide technical assistance to hundreds of communities across the country over the past decade. The two (2) basic types of assistance offered under this BPA are 1) urban design charrettes and 2) facilitated policy evaluation and planning workshops. This requirement is focused on both categories of technical assistance and associated research related to disaster mitigation and long-term recovery from disasters including COVID-19. These projects will differ in their levels of effort and these differences are described in three major task areas below:

1. Workshops based on existing EPA policy tools to help communities plan for or recover from disasters;

2. Workshops where the Contractor develops responsive design solutions to address disaster risks or impacts for specific locations;

3. Research for and piloting of new disaster resilience tools or resources.

EPA intends to provide technical assistance, design work, and develop new tools and resources that can address risks from wildfires, drought, hurricanes, extreme heat, flooding, earthquakes, landslides, sea level rise, winter storms, pandemics and more.

The EPA intends to award a Multiple Award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with a fixed-price amount including an annual ceiling for line item 0001 Disaster Resilience assistance. Upon the BPA being awarded, the period of performance will be for one (1) base year (line item 0001 plus three (3) option years (line item 0002 for option year 1, line item 0003 for option year 2 and line 0004 for option year 3).

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this RFQ is 541620, Environmental Consulting Services. The Product and Service Code is F999, Other Environmental Services. This RFQ is total small business set-aside per FAR 19.5; only small businesses are permitted to submit a quote.

Questions concerning this RFQ must be submitted by 2:30 PM ET Friday, November 20th 2020 via FedConnect. Questions submitted after this due date may not be answered. Quotes received after the RFQ responses due date and time will not be accepted.

The Government will make award to the responsible offeror(s) whose quote conforms to the RFQ and is most advantageous to the Government cost or other factors considered. A Best Value with Tradeoffs will be performed where all evaluation factors other than cost or price when combined are significantly more important than cost or price. For this RFQ, the evaluation factors are included in attachment 3.

Please refer to the following attachments in preparation for your responses:

Attachment 1 [Performance Work Statement]

Attachment 2 [Technical Proposal Instructions]

Attachment 3 [Evaluation Factors]

Attachment 4 [Past Performance Questionnaire]

Attachment 5 [Minimum Qualifications for Key Personnel]

Attachment 6 [Pricing Proposal Document]

Attachment 7 [Quality Assurance Plan]

Attachment 8 [BPA Terms and Conditions]