SOLICITATION NOTICE
F -- MARKAL to TIMES modeling transition support
- Notice Date
- 10/8/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- CPOD US Environmental Protection Agency 26 West Martin Luther King Drive Mail Code: NWD Cincinnati OH 45268 USA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-OH-15-00225
- Response Due
- 10/23/2015
- Archive Date
- 2/1/2016
- Point of Contact
- Tyus, Renita
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. EPA intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b), with Decisionware, Inc. to support the Office of Research and Development ¿s (ORD) Air, Climate, and Energy (ACE) program, EPA ¿s National Risk Management Research Laboratory ¿s (NRMRL), ECA (Energy and Climate Assessment) Team with converting the EPAUS9r database to be used with the TIMES model in ANSWER-TIMES. Over the past 10 years, a technology and emissions rich database, the EPAUS9r, has been developed for use in scenario analyses of the energy system using MARKAL. This modeling framework, pairing ECAT ¿s unique database representation of the U.S. energy system with the MARKAL model, plays an important role in the process of creating and assessing potential future scenarios by providing a unifying framework for organizing data collected and developed on various technologies. ECA Team is using the MARKAL (MARKet ALlocation) model to assess the role of technological change in the US energy system, and the impacts any changes will have on future air quality and greenhouse gas emissions. As modeling technology has advanced, the MARKAL modeling community has developed a newer, more advanced modeling system called TIMES. The user interface for the updated model is called ANSWER-TIMES and has been developed with the same underlying modeling philosophy as ANSWER-MARKAL, the interface currently being used by ECA Team to run MARKAL with the EPAUS9r. The EPAUS9r database needs revisions in order to be used with the TIMES model in ANSWER-TIMES. The data parameters and values remain the same, but need to be restructured for the TIMES platform. ECAT is looking for contractor assistance in this task of updating the current MARKAL excel workbooks for use with TIMES. The EPA has identified Decisionware, Inc. as the only known source able to satisfy the Government ¿s requirement(s) because there is no one else with the level of expertise in developing the tools needed to transition the EPAUS9r ANSWER-MARKAL ready spreadsheets into the ANSWER-TIMES format. Decisionware, Inc. already has experience in taking the publicly available MARKAL based EPAUS9r database workbooks and transitioning a portion of them to ANSWER-TIMES. This procurement will be accomplished under FAR Part 12 Commercial Procedures. The award will be for a 12 month period. Interested firms may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirements. THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETATIVE QUOTATIONS. A determination by the Government not to compete this acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Sources wishing to be considered by the agency MUST submit documentation to the office identified in this notice. Documentation must be submitted within 15 calendar days of the date of publication of this notice. EPA anticipates that award will be December 1, 2015. Submit your request in writing to Renita Tyus at the address shown below or email at tyus.renita@epa.gov. Telephone requests will not be honored. Contracting Office Address: US Environmental Protection Agency/CPOD, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Mail Code: NWD, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268. Place of Performance: US Environmental Protection Agency, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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