Quality Assurance (QA) Auditing Supp

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Amendment 1 is incomplete. Please refer to this Amendment 2. The purpose of this amendment is to attach the Conflict of Interest Provisions and Clauses which will be included in the solicitation.







Amendment 1 to Synopsis



The purpose of this amendment is to attach the Conflict of Interest Provisions and Clauses which will be included in the solicitation.





Quality Assurance (QA) Auditing Support Program

The purpose of this synopsis is to notify potential offerors of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL)¿s intent to award a total small business set-aside contract to provide Quality Assurance (QA) Auditing Support Program for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Air Pollutants for the Environmental Public Health Division¿s Human Studies Facility. This is an ongoing program to support EPA in the development and performance of a comprehensive QA auditing program for complex and diversified experimental systems used to measure the effects of air pollutants on humans. The successful offeror shall (1) perform regularly scheduled audits using EPA approved procedures, (2) support EPA in the development of new audit techniques, (3) support EPA in the modifications of existing audit procedures, and (4) on short notice, conduct non-scheduled audits on new or existing equipment. The successful offeror shall perform audits of gaseous pollutants, aerosol, environmental, physiological data acquisition subsystems of the USEPA¿s clinical research facilities in completing task orders under this contract. Therefore, offerors must be knowledgeable in both air pollutant measurement methods and medical measurement instrumentation.

It is the Government¿s intent to award a Fixed-Rate Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with cost reimbursable elements (i.e. other direct cost, travel, etc.) from this solicitation. The anticipated ordering period includes a five (5) year period of performance. The total estimated level of effort for this requirement in professional labor hours for five (5) years is 40,000 LOE hours. The NACIS code for this acquisition is 541380 ¿ Testing Laboratories ¿ size standard $15.0 in millions of dollars.



This is not a request for submission of proposals. The Request for Proposal (RFP) for this procurement is anticipated to be released on or about the first of December 2016. The procurement will be conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 15 ¿ Contracting by Negotiation. Contract award will be made using a best value approach, with technical capability being of greater importance than cost or price.



The synopsis, amendments, and other information related to this procurement as well as any subsequent procurement notifications will be posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website at: www.fbo.gov and the Fedconnect website at: https://www.fedconnect.net/ .



At this time phone calls related to this procurement are not being accepted. Please submit

any questions or inquiries related to this notice via e-mail ONLY to Marsha Johnson at

johnson.marsha@epa.gov and Lenora Hilliard at hilliard.lenora@epa.gov.

Added: Nov 03, 2016 7:55 am Modified: Dec 21, 2016 12:58 pmTrack Changes Quality Assurance (QA) Auditing Support Program

The purpose of this synopsis is to notify potential offerors of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL)¿s intent to award a total small business set-aside contract to provide Quality Assurance (QA) Auditing Support Program for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Air Pollutants for the Environmental Public Health Division¿s Human Studies Facility. This is an ongoing program to support EPA in the development and performance of a comprehensive QA auditing program for complex and diversified experimental systems used to measure the effects of air pollutants on humans. The successful offeror shall (1) perform regularly scheduled audits using EPA approved procedures, (2) support EPA in the development of new audit techniques, (3) support EPA in the modifications of existing audit procedures, and (4) on short notice, conduct non-scheduled audits on new or existing equipment. The successful offeror shall perform audits of gaseous pollutants, aerosol, environmental, physiological data acquisition subsystems of the USEPA¿s clinical research facilities in completing task orders under this contract. Therefore, offerors must be knowledgeable in both air pollutant measurement methods and medical measurement instrumentation.

It is the Government¿s intent to award a Fixed-Rate Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with cost reimbursable elements (i.e. other direct cost, travel, etc.) from this solicitation. The anticipated ordering period includes a five (5) year period of performance. The total estimated level of effort for this requirement in professional labor hours for five (5) years is 40,000 LOE hours. The NACIS code for this acquisition is 541380 ¿ Testing Laboratories ¿ size standard $15.0 in millions of dollars.



This is not a request for submission of proposals. The Request for Proposal (RFP) for this procurement is anticipated to be released on or about the first of December 2016. The procurement will be conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 15 ¿ Contracting by Negotiation. Contract award will be made using a best value approach, with technical capability being of greater importance than cost or price.



The synopsis, amendments, and other information related to this procurement as well as any subsequent procurement notifications will be posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website at: www.fbo.gov and the Fedconnect website at: https://www.fedconnect.net/ .



At this time phone calls related to this procurement are not being accepted. Please submit

any questions or inquiries related to this notice via e-mail ONLY to Marsha Johnson at

johnson.marsha@epa.gov and Lenora Hilliard at hilliard.lenora@epa.gov.

Added: Nov 03, 2016 7:55 am Quality Assurance (QA) Auditing Support Program

The purpose of this synopsis is to notify potential offerors of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL)¿s intent to award a total small business set-aside contract to provide Quality Assurance (QA) Auditing Support Program for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Air Pollutants for the Environmental Public Health Division¿s Human Studies Facility. This is an ongoing program to support EPA in the development and performance of a comprehensive QA auditing program for complex and diversified experimental systems used to measure the effects of air pollutants on humans. The successful offeror shall (1) perform regularly scheduled audits using EPA approved procedures, (2) support EPA in the development of new audit techniques, (3) support EPA in the modifications of existing audit procedures, and (4) on short notice, conduct non-scheduled audits on new or existing equipment. The successful offeror shall perform audits of gaseous pollutants, aerosol, environmental, physiological data acquisition subsystems of the USEPA¿s clinical research facilities in completing task orders under this contract. Therefore, offerors must be knowledgeable in both air pollutant measurement methods and medical measurement instrumentation.

It is the Government¿s intent to award a Fixed-Rate Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with cost reimbursable elements (i.e. other direct cost, travel, etc.) from this solicitation. The anticipated ordering period includes a five (5) year period of performance. The total estimated level of effort for this requirement in professional labor hours for five (5) years is 40,000 LOE hours. The NACIS code for this acquisition is 541380 ¿ Testing Laboratories ¿ size standard $15.0 in millions of dollars.



This is not a request for submission of proposals. The Request for Proposal (RFP) for this procurement is anticipated to be released on or about the first of December 2016. The procurement will be conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 15 ¿ Contracting by Negotiation. Contract award will be made using a best value approach, with technical capability being of greater importance than cost or price.



The synopsis, amendments, and other information related to this procurement as well as any subsequent procurement notifications will be posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website at: www.fbo.gov and the Fedconnect website at: https://www.fedconnect.net/ .



At this time phone calls related to this procurement are not being accepted. Please submit

any questions or inquiries related to this notice via e-mail ONLY to Marsha Johnson at

johnson.marsha@epa.gov and Lenora Hilliard at hilliard.lenora@epa.gov.