&EPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Off ice of
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
Publication 9242.6-07FS
September 1990
Long-Term Contracting
Strategy For Superfund
Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
Office of Program Management OS - 240
Quick Reference Fact Sheet
Introduction
Background
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed a Long-
Term Contracting Strategy for the Superfund program. The Agency's
objectives in developing the strategy were to analyze the long-term con-
tracting needs of the program, and to design a portfolio of Superfund
contracts to meet those needs over the next ten years. This strategic
planning effort was recommended by the 1989 Agency report on A
Management Review of the Superfund Program.
The issues, analysis, and decisions contained in the strategy are the
products of an Agency-wide task force comprising representatives from
the ten Regions, the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, the
Office of Administration and Resources Management, and the Office of
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. The task force developed
several contracting options, analyzed them, and selected elements of the
options that best served each of the Superfund program functions.
The Long-Term Contracting Strategy for Superfund is built on sev-
eral key principles. First, the strategy supports an integrated "One Pro-
gram" approach to enforcement and site cleanup. Second, the strategy
enhances the competitive environment by reducing the size of contracts
and creating more opportunities for small and disadvantaged businesses.
Third, the strategy provides mechanisms for greater flexibility and im-
proved oversight and cost management by giving the Regions full respon-
sibility for the contracts.
This stategy is intended to be a road map for the next decade of
Superfund contracting. We will continue to evaluate the stategy in light of
changes that may occur in the program. Implementation plans are under
development with the goal of phasing-in elements of the new strategy
without program disruption or any termination of existing contracts. Cop-
ies of the Long-Term Contracting Strategy for Superfund are available
from the Superfund Docket and Information Center, OS - 245, Room 2427,
EPA Headquarters, 401 M St. SW, Washington, DC 20460, telephone -
(202) 382-6940.
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The following describes the principal components of the Superfund Long-Term Contracting Strategy
by program function.
Enforcement Contract Support
• Enforcement Support Contracts - Provides support for spe-
cific enforcement-related activities (e.g., litigation support,
potentially responsible party searches).
• Contracts will be competed and managed on a regional
basis.
• Response Action Contracts - Oversight functions will be
moved to remedial contracts.
Preremedial Contract Support
Regional Management Contract Support
• Regional Management Support - Provides support for ad-
ministrative and information management activities in the
region.
• Contracts will be competed and managed on a regional
basis.
Removal Contract Support
• Field Investigation Team I Technical Assistance Team -
Provides support for removal technical assistance and will
be competed and managed on a regional basis.
• Technical assistance contracts will be combined with
preremedial activities.
• Time Critical/Rapid Response Activities Continues ap-
proach of time-critical response support competed and
managed on a regional basis.
• Time-critical response activities will be combined with
rapid remedial response activities.
• Response Action Contracts Non-time-critical removal
actions will be combined with remedial contracts.
Analytical .Contract'Support
• Environmental Services Assistance Team - Continues envi-
ronmental services dedicated support and will be com-
peted and managed on a regional basis.
• Contract Laboratory Program. - Defers decision on decen-
tralizing the Contract Laboratory Program. Additional
analysis is ongoing.
• Field Investigation Team I Technical Assistance Team
Provides support for preremedial activities (e.g., prelimi-
nary assessments and site inspections) and will be com-
peted and managed on a regional basis.
• Combines dedicated team programs of preremedial
support and removal technical assistance into one inte-
grated contracting program.
; Response Action Contracts - Will use the Alternative Reme-
dial Contracting Strategy contracts to provide preremedial
support until the combination with removal technical assis-
tance can be phased-in.
Remedial Contract Support
• Response Action Contracts - Provides support for all reme-
dial activities and will be managed on a regional basis using
existing Alternative Remedial Contracting Strategy con-
tracts.
• Combines all enforcement oversight activities into the
contracting program and permits the conduct of nontime-
critical removal actions.
• Existing Alternative Remedial Contracting Strategy con-
tracts will also be used to provide interim preremedial
support.
Site Specific Contracts
• Site Specific Contracts - Provides contract support tailored
to the needs of a specific site or types of sites or contami-
nants or activities.
• Will be competed where time allows.
Transportation and Disposal Contract Support
• Transportation and Disposal Broker - Provides assistance
in resolving technical difficulties in making arrangements
for transportation and disposal of hazardous substances.
• Concept will require additional analysis and definition
Future efforts will focus on the development of this con
cept.
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Long-Term Contracting Strategy for Superfund
Headquarters
National
Contracts
Contract Laboratory
Program
CLP*
Transportation
and Disposal
Broker*
Enforcement
Support Contracts
Time Critical /
Rapid
Response
Activities
Each EPA
Region
Environmental
Services
Assistance Team
(ESAT)
Regional Management
Support Contracts
Field Investigation
Team /Technical
Assistance Team
(FIT/TAT)
Response
Action
Contracts
Site Specific
Contracts
* Decision on decentralizing CLP deferred. CLP and Transportation and Disposal Broker require further study.
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