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Added: Jan 29, 2015 7:48 am THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS FOR WRITTEN INFORMATION ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is performing a market search for large and small businesses in preparation for a future procurement. Information submitted in response to this notice is merely used for internal market research purposes and no feedback will be offered to the interested parties that submit capability statements.

The EPA has a need for a contractor to provide support for the development and evaluation of technologies, processes, and tools to prevent or reduce pollution of air, land, and water, and to restore ecosystems. The contract will be managed by the Contracts Branch in the Office of Administration and Research Support Extramural Management Division of the Office of Research and Development (ORD), however, contract support will be available to all ORD laboratories, Centers, and offices as well as other USEPA organizations that conduct research projects that could be supported under the scope of the Performance Work Statement (PWS).

Specific areas to be addressed in capability packages submitted by respondents are as follows: 1) research work- involving developing and/or evaluating technical concepts, process options, and prototype systems in a research framework that permits and encourages changes in direction and mid-course corrections as needed and warranted and a broad range of process development efforts such as proof-of-concept, laboratory-scale, and bench-scale experiments, 2) treatability studies and pilot-scale investigations, 3) field support (examples ? risk assessments, permit reviews, site characterization, site preparation), 4) development and/or evaluation of computer-oriented tools, approaches, and technologies such as software, models, and decision-support tools, and 5) technical support to various programs including US EPA Superfund Program, the RCRA Program and Office of Water.

Additional information regarding these tasks please see the DRAFT Performance Work Statement (PWS) posted at the EPA's Forecast Database site- http://yosemite1.epa.gov/oarm/oam/forecastdatabase.nsf/06ac163bcd21923a85256be8000f5b31/65db8968fa7a5a7e85257daf0066d291!OpenDocument

To be considered a potential source, a firm must demonstrate they have the necessary labor mix and capacity, materials, equipment and facilities to support the effort as delineated above. ANY INTERESTED FIRM should submit a capability statement which demonstrates the firms ability to perform the 5 general support tasks described above.

It is anticipated that the contract will be multiple award IDIQ type contract with the majority of the task orders issued as Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) completion type with others issued on a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) basis. The estimated period of performance is 5 years. ANY INTERESTED FIRM should submit a capability statement (in accordance with the above criteria) which should provide their size status (i.e. large, small) in accordance with NAICS code 541712 `Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology), with a size standard of 500 employees and whether or not they are a certified Hubzone, 8(a), women-owned, small disadvantaged and/or disabled veteran owned concern. Standard company brochures will not be considered a sufficient response to this Sources Sought Synopsis. The EPA reserves the right to set these actions aside for small businesses. Responses to the above should be submitted to Matthew J. Growney, U.S. EPA, Cincinnati Procurement Operations Division, 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268 no later than February 27, 2015.