U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Contracts Management Division, Cincinnati, OH 45268-7001

B -- TECHICAL SUPPORT FOR PEER REVIEW SERVICES SOL C500798T1 POC Contact Point, Raoul D. Scott, (513)366-2071, Contracting Officer, Raoul D. Scott, (513)366-2071 The United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Assessment is issuing a ''request for Proposals (RFP) to conduct peer review for both biological and statistical research activities and products related to the improvement of human health and ecological risk assessment. The contractor shall establish and provide peer review capability for identified programs, technical outputs, current research projects or tasks, proposed research protocols and other documents for the National Center for Environmental Assessment-Washington, DC (NCEA-DC), National Center for Environmental Assessment-Cincinnati (NCEA-Cin), and National Environmental Research Center-Research Triangle Park (NCEA-RTP) on an as needed basis. The major purpose of external Office of Research and Development (ORD) peer review is to ensure: 1) conceptual soundness of scientific approaches; 2) appropriate implementation of scientific methods; and 3) validity of results. Peer reviewers shall assess all products with the intention of improving the quality of research conducted and, redirect ongoing efforts as necessary to achieve stated quality goals. The Contractor shall provide one or more recognized independent techcial experts who can provide impartial evaluations of NCEA products. These reviews are specifically sought from sources outside the Agency in order to obtain the benefit of additional veiwpoints and perspectives. The Government anticipates awarding either a cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) or firm fixed price (FFP) delivery order type contract, with a minimum and maximum value identified for each term. For any resultant CPFF type contract,the total estimated LOE will be 10,500 hours with a one (1) tweleve month base peirod, and two (2) tweleve month option periods. Each period will have quanity options to increase the base LOE for that period. The exact type and specific requirments will be identifed in any resultant solicitation. All requests for solicitation C500798T1 must be in writting to the Contracting Officer. Requests may be faxed by calling 513-366-2004. The solicitatio will be processed using full and open competition. (0262)

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