SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Technical Support for Human Health Risk Assessment
- Notice Date
- 9/5/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Cincinnati Procurement Operations Division 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive Cincinnati, OH 45268
- ZIP Code
- 45268
- Solicitation Number
- PR-CI-07-11271
- Response Due
- 9/20/2007
- Archive Date
- 10/20/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 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. The EPA has a need for a contractor to provide the Office of Research and Development (ORD); National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) technical support for conducting risk assessments on environmental stressors and developing state-of-the-art methods, models, and guidance documents for human health risk assessment in three key areas of single chemical risk assessment, chemical mixture risk assessment, and microbial risk assessment. Specific areas to be addressed in capability packages are as follows: (1) Experience in developing and revising component or comprehensive chemical hazard or qualitative risk assessment documents covering one or multiple endpoints. Specific experience with developing documents that serve as baseline health assessment documentation for the development of consensus positions in EPA?s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). Documents are generally focused on the development of cancer dose-response functions and deviation of oral Reference Dose (RfD) and inhalation Reference Concentrations (RfC) values and may include mode of action descriptions as well as dose-response modeling; (2) Experience in developing and revising chemical toxicity assessments in accordance with EPA chemical toxicity assessment practices for less common chemicals with smaller databases; (3) Experience with exposure analysis for contaminants, mixtures, media- or site- specific cases to include determining exposure from pollution/contaminant sources, estimating and evaluating human populations, and performing statistical and computational analysis; (4) Experience with site or community based risk assessments; (5) Experience with public health outcomes; (6) Experience developing innovative human health risk assessment methodologies/procedures or the refinement and improvement of existing ones; (7) Experience providing risk assessment support to include science writing, risk communication, training, Superfund health risk support, data collection and compilation; (8) Experience with providing risk assessment data bases and computer tools; (9) Experience with analysis, document and issue paper preparations; (10) Experience providing risk assessment support; (11) Experience with providing information of the data collections and compilations activities pertaining to all sections of this acquisition; (12) Experience in the conduct of toxicological, health, economic, or exposure-specific literature searches. All products are required to be consistent with state-of-the-science approaches and methods in human health risk assessment, and will be expected to pass internal and external scientific peer reviews normally conducted prior to publication in peer reviewed journals. The successful contractor shall provide all necessary labor, materials, facilities, and services in support of the efforts delineated by the Performance Work Statement (PWS). A draft PWS can be obtained from the OAM website, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd/. It is anticipated that the contract will be a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) Level of Effort (LOE) starting in October 2008 with a one year Base Period and four Optional Periods of 12 months each. Approximately 47,000 LOE hours are anticipated for each contract period for a total of 237,000 hours. The applicable NAICS code is 541990 with a size standard of $6,500,000. Any interested firms should submit a capability statement which demonstrates the firm?s ability to perform the key requirements described above. Standard company brochures will not be considered a sufficient response to this Sources Sought Synopsis. In the capabilities statements, contractors should provide their size status for the above referenced NAICS code, (i.e. large, small) and whether or not they are a certified hubzone, 8(a), women-owned, small disadvantaged and/or disabled veteran owned concern. As a reminder, small businesses are required to perform at least 50 percent of the costs of the contract performance with their own personnel (FAR 52.219-14). The EPA reserves the right to set this action aside for small businesses. Responses to the above should be submitted to Cathy Basu, USEPA, 26 West Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268, or basu.cathy@epa.gov) no later than 15 calendar days from date of posting. A separate synopsis will be issued for the Request for Proposal (RFP) resulting from this sources source synopsis.
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