Technical and Administrative Support for the U. S.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Water, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW) requires contractor support to provide technical and analytical support to the Office of Water (OW), Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW) for the National Drinking Water Program.

The contractor shall provide technical and analytical support for contaminant occurrence, cost/ benefit, economic, financial, and regulatory analyses, along with characterization of potential limitations of those analyses. The contractor shall provide technical and analytical support for environmental and analytical chemistry, primary and secondary environmental data collection, statistics, engineering, hydrology, hydrogeology, public health and risk assessment, system analysis, cost and benefit assessments, database management, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and microbiology relating to the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Amendments. The contractor shall also provide support for development of standards, criteria, and program mandates being considered by the Agency relative to the requirements of the SDWA Amendments and other statutes (such as Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) and Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) already in place. EPA will review the information for technical soundness and adherence to Agency policy. Additionally, the contractor shall provide administrative program support in areas of information management, outreach, technical writing and coordination of logistics.

The proposed contract will be a single award IDIQ contract with a five-year ordering period with one additional year for task completion. The anticipated contract will also include an option to extend services for up to six months. The government is still considering which task order type(s) will be utilized, and is contemplating firm fixed price, cost plus fixed-fee and time and materials task orders. The total level of effort of approximately 287,500 hours is anticipated over the five-year period of the contract. The applicable NAICS code is 541611 with a size standard of $15 million. This is a follow-on-requirement, of the current EPA contract EP-C-12-023 with The Cadmus Group LLC.

Potential exists for an organizational conflict of interest (COI) under any resulting procurement. Therefore for informational purposes areas of concerns are identified in the Attachment “Draft COI Requirements†. Final COI documents will be provided in the solicitation.

The anticipated solicitation release date is late March 2019, and the close date shall be approximately 30 days thereafter. The solicitation will be issued under full and open competition procedures. Notices of any modifications to this FBO procurement announcement, including Requests for Proposals and amendments, will be posted using the FedConnect web portal. FedConnect can be accessed at https://www.fedconnect.net/Fedconnect/. Interested parties are expected to download the solicitation and any subsequent amendments from the website and to monitor the status of the solicitation. All responsible sources may submit a proposal. Contract award will be made in accordance with FAR Part 15- Contracting by Negotiation. The point of contact is Donna Reinhart, at (513)487-2114, reinhart.donna@epa.gov.

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