This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Cincinnati, Ohio. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

For proposal preparation purposes, offerors may assume a contract start date of 05/01/2022. L-23 Local Clauses EPA-L-15-102 TECHNICAL QUESTIONS Offerors must submit all technical questions concerning this solicitation electronically through FedConnect. In order to submit questions, offerors must register in FedConnect at www.fedconnect.net, see main page for registration instructions. 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. Only those technical questions posted through FedConnect will be accepted. EPA must receive technical questions no later than 10 calendar days after the issuance date of this solicitation. EPA will utilize FedConnect to issue amendments to the solicitation (e.g., to answer technical questions which may affect proposal submittal). EPA will not reference the source of the questions. EPAAR 1552.211-73 LEVEL OF EFFORT-COST-REIMBURSEMENT CONTRACT. (MAY 2016) (a) The Contractor shall perform all work and provide all required reports within the level of effort specified below. The Contractor shall provide up to TBD at TO level direct labor hours for the base period. The Government's best estimate of the level of effort to fulfill these requirements is provided for advisory and estimating purposes. The Government is only obligated to pay for direct labor hours ordered and corresponding fixed fee for labor hours completed. (b) Direct labor includes personnel such as engineers, scientists, draftsmen, technicians, statisticians, and programmers, and not support personnel such as company management or data entry/word processing/accounting personnel even though such support personnel are normally treated as direct labor by the Contractor. The level of effort specified in paragraph (a) of this section includes Contractor, subcontractor, and consultant non-support labor hours. (c) If the Contractor provides less than 90 percent of the level of effort specified for the base period or any optional period exercised, an equitable downward adjustment of the fixed fee, if any, for that period will be made. The downward adjustment will reduce the fixed fee by the percentage by which the total expended level of effort is less than 100% of that specified in paragraph (a). (For instance, if a hypothetical baseperiod LOE of 100,000 hours is being reduced to 70,000, the fixed fee shall also be reduced by the same 30%. Using a corresponding hypothetical base-period fixed fee pool of $300,000, the reduced fixed-fee amount is calculated as: $300,000 x (70,000 hours/100,000 hours) = $210,000.) (d) The Government may require the Contractor to provide additional effort up to 110 percent of the level of effort for any period until the estimated cost for that period has been reached. However, this additional effort shall not result in any increase in the fixed fee, if any. (e) If this is a cost-plus-incentive-fee (CPIF) contract, the term "fee" in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this section means "base fee and incentive fee." If this is a cost-plus-award-fee (CPAF) contract, the term "fee" in paragraphs (c) and (d) means "base fee and award fee." (f) If the level of effort specified to be ordered during a given base or option period is not ordered during that period, that level of effort may not be accumulated and ordered during a subsequent period. (g) These terms and conditions do not supersede the requirements of either the "Limitation of Cost" or "Limitation of Funds" clauses