This is strictly for market research purposes and not a solicitation announcement.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is performing a “market search” for small businesses in preparation for a future procurement. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and technical capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled; veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged; (3) the availability of small business sources under various strategic sourcing vehicles; and (4) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. To broaden the Agency’s market research effort EPA will also utilize GSA’s Market Research as a Service (MRAS) entities may respond to either, as the information collected from both outreach notices will be used to help determine if this potential requirement may be set-aside for small business concerns, under the range of potential acquisition approaches the government may pursue.
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for determining small business status under this requirement is 541715 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences except Biotechnology and Nanotechnology) with a size standard of 1,000 employees.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) requires contractor support to use appropriate rapid, high throughput methods on sets of dozens to hundreds of industrial compounds from the growing ToxCast (Toxicity Forecasting) library of chemical standards.
Of special interest are:
• Data on physico-chemical properties including but not limited to vapor pressure, relevant partition coefficients (octanol:water, octanol:air, water:air), Henry’s Law constant, and half lives in environmental media- both indoor and ambient). Analysis of chemical identity and purity is also needed. Methods or approaches should include high throughput approaches where available, as well as standard measurement procedures.
• Data on chemical constituents of and emission rates from sentinel household products, materials, and articles
• Screening for chemical occurrence in commercial articles, materials, and products (personal care or household cleaning product, furnishing, etc); environmental media (indoor air, house dust, water, etc.); and biological media (serum, urine, blood spot, etc.) The contractor shall provide services as outlined in the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS).
Services will be specified through task orders (TOs) issued by the Cincinnati Acquisition Division (CAD) Contracting Officer (CO) and managed by the various Task Order CORs (TOCORs) with overall purview of the Contract Level Contracting Officer representative (CL-COR).
The Government anticipates issuing a single award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) Agency contract with task orders. The contract will have a period of five (5) years and a maximum value of approximately $7 million. This requirement is a follow-on to contract 68HERC20D0027that expires on 06/30/2025.
To help determine if this potential requirement may be set-aside for small business concerns, under the range of potential acquisition approaches the government may pursue, the government is seeking input from the small business community regarding their interest and capability in performing the tasks reflected in the attached draft PWS, and specifically the six enumerated capability areas provided in this notice. The Government will review qualifications based on the vendor’s responses with specific emphasis on the vendor’s demonstrated ability to perform the listed capability areas which are key to performing the PWS. Information submitted in response to this notice is used for internal market research purposes only, and no feedback will be offered to the entities that submit capability statements.
Companies classified as small can subcontract work to similarly situated entities (i.e., other small businesses) and include the capabilities of that potential small business team to demonstrate the respondent’s ability to perform the requirement. Standard company brochures will not be considered a sufficient response to this Sources Sought Synopsis. Respondents may also provide information regarding plans to use joint venturing (JV) or partnering. Please outline how you would envision your company’s areas of expertise and those of any proposed JV/partner would be combined to meet the specific requirements contained in this announcement.
Submission Instructions and Capability Information
The respondent is required to submit its technical capabilities statement via FedConnect no later than October 4, 2024. There is no charge to use FedConnect. (See https://www.fedconnect.net/Fedconnect). If you need technical assistance in registering or for any other FedConnect® function, call the FedConnect® Help Desk at (800) 899-6665 or email at [email protected].
The respondent shall, at a minimum, address the following questions regarding its Company Profile and Capability Information. It is recommended that the respondent use the template below.
A. Company Profile
1. Company name and address;
2. Affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, and potential teaming partners;
3. NAICS Code 541715 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences except Biotechnology and Nanotechnology) with a size standard of 1,000 employees
4. Two points of contact (names, titles, phone numbers and email addresses);
5. UEI and CAGE Code, as registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at http://www.sam.gov/:
6. Small Business designation/status under NAICS Code 541715 (must correlate with SAM registration):
_____ Small business _____ HUBZone _____ WOSB
_____ 8(a) _____ VOSB
_____ SDVOSB
_____ Small Disadvantaged Business
B. Capability Information
Specific areas to be addressed in your technical capability packages are as follows:
(1) Description of your company’s experience in developing, extending and refining assessment approaches to support decision-making, building on existing frameworks and methods.
(2) Description of your company’s experience in managing data and information to support assessment activities and accessibility (e.g., distribution of datasets on Science Hub).
(3) Description of your company’s experience in reviewing, extracting, pre-processing and summarizing relevant literature and data.
(4) Description of your company’s experience in providing statistical, spatial, economic, and qualitative analyses, dynamic and simulation modeling, and programming support.
(5) Description of your company’s experience in developing, supporting, and enhancing information technology (IT) tools and applications, including web-, mobile-, and PC-based assessment and visualization tools.
(6) Description of your company’s experience in developing, packaging, and distributing outreach and technology transfer products as research is completed in support of ensuring that the research that ORD does results in environmental outcomes.
C. Additional Comments:
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