Technical and Scientific Services to Support the Activities Conducted by the Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services (DEEHS)

June 25, 2015

Dear Prospective Offeror:

You are invited to submit a proposal in accordance with the requirements of Request for Proposal (RFP) Number 2015-N-16927, entitled "Technical and Scientific Services to Support the Activities Conducted by the Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services (DEEHS)."

Your proposal must be received no later than 2:00 PM EDT, Friday, July 31, 2015 at the address below:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Attention: Ms. Alma Barber
Reference: Solicitation # 2015-N-16927
2920 Brandywine Road, MS K-69
Atlanta, GA 30341

Your attention is directed to the solicitation provision FAR 52.215-1, Instructions to Offerors - Competitive Acquisition (Jan 2004), paragraph (c)(3), entitled "Submission, Modification, Revision, and Withdrawal of Proposals" set forth in Section L of the RFP. Please review this provision so that you will be fully aware of the time requirements for submitting your proposal.

Your proposal must be prepared in accordance with the General Instructions, Business Proposal Instructions, Past Performance Information, and the Statement of Work contained in the RFP.

This request does not commit the Government to pay any cost for the preparation and submission of your proposal. It is also brought to your attention that the Contracting Officer is the only individual who can legally commit the Government to the expenditure of public funds in connection with this proposed procurement.

All inquiries concerning the attached solicitation document must be submitted in writing and must be received by this office by 10:00am EDT, Monday, July 6, 2015; please see Section L.6, Solicitation Questions, of this RFP. Requests for any information concerning this RFP should be referred to Alma Barber at email address: vel3@cdc.gov.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)/Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services (DEEHS) intends to issue a solicitation for scientific and technical services in support of the division's environmental public health programs. These services include the areas of epidemiologic studies, surveillance, surveys, data collection and analysis, environmental, chemical and safety engineering, industrial hygiene, sampling, program analysis and evaluation, field training, information dissemination, and response to disaster events both domestically and internationally.

This requirement is a competitive small business set-aside competed under the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code of 541990 - All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services with a small business size standard of $15.0 million. The resultant award is expected to be a multiple award firm-fixed-price Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The period of performance will be for sixty (60) months.  The contract ceiling price is $20 million with a total guaranteed minimum of $10,000.

This notice is not a request for proposals. No response to this notice is requested or required. The solicitation will be posted on FedBizOpps on or about June 8, 2015. Interested parties must respond to the solicitation in order to be considered for award of any resultant contract.  Interested parties are responsible for monitoring FedBizOpps regularly for release of the solicitation and any amendments.