SOURCES SOUGHT
r -- Technical Support for Human Health Risk Assessment
- Notice Date
- 12/21/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- 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
- 68HE0C18R0011
- Response Due
- 1/12/2018
- Archive Date
- 1/12/2018
- Point of Contact
- Hingsbergen, Clare
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS FOR CAPABILITIES STATEMENTS ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is performing a ¿market search ¿ for businesses in preparation for a future procurement. Any interested firm should submit a Capabilities Statement with information which clearly demonstrates their capabilities to provide the services described below. Standard company brochures will not be considered a sufficient response to this Sources Sought Synopsis. Information submitted in response to this notice is merely used for internal market research purposes and no feedback will be offered to the interested parties that submit capability statements. It is anticipated that any future contract for these services will be an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity type contract with a five (5) year ordering period. The Government anticipates establishing a maximum order ceiling of $55 million. Task Orders will be issued under the contract as cost- plus-fixed-fee (CPFF), level-of-effort, completion or term basis or time-and-materials type contracts. The applicable NAICS code is 541990 (Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) with a size standard of $15 million of the average annual receipts. The capabilities statement shall provide the firm ¿s current size status for the above referenced NAICS code, (large or small) and whether the firm is a SBA certified Hubzone or 8(a)/Small Disadvantaged contractor. The firm shall also indicate if it is Woman-owned, Veteran-owned or Service-Disabled Veteran owned. 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. The US EPA, Office of Research and Development (ORD), has a need for a firm to provide a range of risk assessment tasks in each of the four elements of the National Academy of Science ¿s risk assessment paradigm; hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. Specific areas to be addressed in capability packages are as follows: (1) Conducting risk assessments on environmental stressors (i.e. physical, chemical, microbial, or other agent forms) and (2) developing state-of-the-art methods, models, and guidance documents for human health and environmental risk assessment. These tasks commonly require expertise in multiple disciplines such as: epidemiology, toxicology, pharmacology, physiology, pathology, microbiology, infectious disease epidemiology, public health, decision analysis, quantitative dose-response assessment, quantitative uncertainty analysis, human health economics, exposure modeling, statistics, biostatistics, chemistry, ecology, environmental engineering, and mathematical modeling including Benchmark Dose (BMD) modeling, physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling, exposure modeling, and computational toxicology modeling, as well as library science or information management, project/program management, technical and scientific writing and editing, and software or application development. In many tasks, scientific needs are highly specialized, requiring expert personnel having the knowledge and ability to fully and critically evaluate study methodologies and results in the technical disciplines identified above. Analyses must be scientifically sound and sufficiently documented to withstand intensive critical examination and review by other experts in relevant disciplines. The successful contractor of any resultant contract will be expected to provide all necessary labor, materials, and facilities in support of the efforts delineated by the PWS. Capabilities Statements in response to this Sources Sought Synopsis MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH THE FEDCONNECT PORTAL. Any questions regarding the content of this sources sought synopsis announcement must be submitted through the FedConnect portal. You must register with FedConnect to submit documents, questions, and to view responses. 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/. FedConnect is a web portal that connects agencies and vendors to streamline the process of doing business with the federal government. Through FedConnect contractors will be able to receive, review and respond to contract pre- and post-award actions and documents such as correspondence, request for proposals, tasking instruments and contract modifications. The use of FedConnect also furthers the EPA ¿s commitment to moving towards a paperless acquisition environment by reducing its carbon footprint and conducting its business in an ecologically friendly manner. There is no charge to use FedConnect. Vendors can register with FedConnect at www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/. For assistance in registering or for other FedConnect technical questions please call the FedConnect Help Desk at (800) 899-6665 or email at support@fedconnect.net. In addition, all vendors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM), as this facilitates registration for FedConnect. Please note that vendors MUST have their SAM profile set to ¿public, ¿ otherwise FedConnect will not be able to access the SAM information required to validate vendor credentials. Registration may be completed and information regarding the registration process may be obtained at http://www.sam.gov. There is no charge for registration in SAM. Responses to the above should be submitted to Clare Hingsbergen, USEPA, 26 West Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268, or hingsbergen.clare@epa.gov no later than 20 calendar days from the date of posting. A separate synopsis will be issued for the Request for Proposal (RFP) resulting from this sources sought synopsis.
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