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

B -- ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND REGULATORY SUPPORT SOL PR-CI-00-10823 POC David Plagge, plagge.david@epa.gov, (513) 487-2022 WEB: Office of Acquisition Management -- Cincinnati Contracts, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. E-MAIL: David Plagge, plagge.david@epa.gov. This announcement is for planning purposes only. It is intended to assist the Environmental Protection Agency in its preparation for this future procurement which includes the identification of qualified sources. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a requirement for economic, regulatory and technical analyses. The contractor shall provide analyses for economic, financial, and environmental analysis in the effluent guidelines program. This requires the capability to provide multi-purpose, multi-tasked products, often on a quick turn around basis, to meet ambitious court ordered schedules. The effluent guidelines program is responsible for setting the nation's technology based standards for industrial pollution control. The program has ten to twenty major regulations and studies under development all of the time. This requires an extremely capable group of prime and subcontractors with the breadth and depth to provide the most available expertise in the fields of economic analysis, financial analysis, and environmental assessment. The program areas in which work is expected to be conducted are effluent limitations guidelines and standards, water quality standards (including contaminated sediment), water permits and pretreatment standards analysis (including compliance and enforcement), co-ordinated effort within the Office of Water (sewage and industrial sludge, drinking water, ground water, wastewater, point source, non-point source, wetlands, and marine, estuary, and ocean programs), multimedia analysis and pollution prevention ( treatment and disposition of hazardous waste and solid waste, air emissions, volatile compounds discharged to surface waters and publicly-owned treatment works, source reduction and recycling for regulatory and non-regulatory options), and administrator's priorities (common sense initiative, watershed approaches, nutrient management and others). Support is required in the areas of including: A) Economics Analysis and Support including (1) industry profiling/characterizing; (2) economic and regulatory analysis; (3) Regulatory Flexibility Act/SBREFA Analysis; (4) cost-benefit analysis of regulatory options; (5) cost analysis of the incremental annualized costs; (6) cost-effectiveness analysis of various pollution control regulatory options; (7) analysis of other statutory and Executive Order requirements such as the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act; and (8) methodology development and technical review for economic analysis related to the control of water pollution; B)Environmental Assessment/Benefits Analysis including (1) performing environmental assessments; (2) calculating toxic weighting factors and/or pollutant weighting factors; (3) environmental assessments of pollutant of concern specific information; (4) benefits analysis for monetizing the benefits of environmental regulations including human health benefits, recreational benefits, other ecological benefits, and economic productivity; and (5) methodology development and technical review; C)Technical Assistance including (1) collection/preparation of reports including the economic analysis (EA), environmental assessment (EnvA), Cost-effectiveness analysis (CE) among others. The contractor shall also collect and organize information for the public and confidential record (e.g., reports, analyses, databases, correspondence, surveys, etc.); (2) review and analysis of public comments; and (3) analyses to support multi-media project and identification of pollution prevention opportunities and also data collection and public outreach. Interested parties are requested to submit to the Contracting Officer a capability statement that includes: (1)Name of firm, mailing address, point of contact's phone number and e-mail address; (2) Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code that best describes the firm's business and the firm's size status under that code; (3) whether the firm the firm is a small disadvantage business and/or woman-owned business; (4) a brief statement of experience/qualifications including the capacity (including LOE and dollar amount) of projects completed similar to the work outlined above . E-mail is the preferred method of receipt for a detailed capability statement (plagge.david@epa.gov). The deadline for receipt of this information is no later than August 11, 2000. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENT IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE. Posted 07/26/00 (W-SN478949). (0208)

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