Great Lakes Architect Engineering Services (GLAES)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 is seeking support for the Architect- Engineering Services for Remedial Design class of contracts for the Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) to support contaminated sediment activities taken under the Great Lakes Legacy Reauthorization Act (GLLRA) of 2008. The purpose of this announcement is to determine the availability of large and small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, 8(a) small businesses, HubZone small businesses, woman-owned small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses capable of performing the activities included in the Statement of Work (SOW). EPA will be conducting a conference for the Great Lakes Architect Engineering Services (GLAES) contracts on November 15, 2010. The conference will begin at 9:00 AM CST sharp. The conference will be conducted in the Lake Michigan Room on the 12th floor conference center of 77 W. Jackson (Metcalf Federal Center), Chicago, Illinois. EPA is looking for firms that can perform all of the SOW requirements or portions of the SOW. The contractor shall be prepared to provide scientific/technical support for EPA activities in furtherance of the agency's primary mission: the protection of human health and the environment. These responsibilities are described in the SOW. Additional responses to this announcement will not be reviewed. This amendment is to notify all interested parties of the November 15, 2010, conference. The resultant two contracts (possibly 1 Full & Open & 1 Small Business Set-Aside) are anticipated to be an ID/IQ type contract, with 36-month base period and a two 24-month option periods. The estimated maximum potential value of the contract is $25 million over the life of each contract. This procurement will be an FAR Part 36, Brooks Act procurement. Work will be ordered through the issuance of Task Orders. The contractor shall provide all personnel, materials, and equipment necessary to perform the required tasks. The SOW requirements fall under NAICS code 562910 - Environmental Remediation Services. The size standard under this NAICS code is not to exceed 500 employees. For more information on this and other NAICS codes and the Small Business Administration's (SBA) small business size standards, visit: http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html and http://www.sba.gov/size/sizetable2002.html The period for firms to response to this source's sought is closed (October 1, 2010). The Statement of Work: See attached PDF The Work Breakdown Structure: See attached PDF The Task Category Inventory: See attached PDF Questions can be submitted to: Dave Alberts by e-mail at alberts.david@epa.gov.