U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 W. Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268

A -- OPERATION OF THE EPA TEST AND EVALUATION FACILITY SOL CI98-0049 POC Mike Hennessey, 513-487-2032 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Contracts Management, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: EPA Contracts Management Division, Cincinnati, hennessey.mike@epamail.epa.gov. The RFP is for a contractor to provide operations support services to the Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Test and Evaluation Facility. The T&E Facility specializes in liquid municipal and industrial wastewater treatment technologies and research in solid and hazardous waste treatment. Bench and pilot plant-scale research and development and small-scale demonstrations are being undertaken in both liquid and solid media. Sample and waste matrices as air, soils, sediments, residuals, debris and sludges may also be used in on-site and on-site related field-scale studies. As requested in task orders, the contractor shall provide labor and services for the design, fabrication, and operation of bench and pilot scale water and wastewater treatment and other specified experiments at the facility. Contractor personnel shall provide support including design, engineering, fabrication, assembly, project supervision, operation, sampling, analytical support, dataanalysis, and other activities which may be necessary to take an experiment from conception to completion and draft report preparation. A cost reimbursement, term type contract is anticipated. The effective date of the contract will be 6/1/99 and will have a base period of 16 months with three 12-month options. The base level of effort will be about 16,000 hours for each 12-month period. There will be options for additional hours up to about 55,000 hours each 12-month period. A ROUGH schedule for submission of proposals is as follows: Issue RFP -- mid-September; pre-proposal conference -- early October; proposals due before Thanksgiving. A limited number of copies will be avaialbe for companies that are unable to obtain the RFP via the internet. TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Requests for hard copies can be submitted via fax at 513-487-2107 or via e-mail at the address shown below. All responsible sources may ubmit an offer which will be considered. Posted 06/29/98 (0180)

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