Description
The State of Alaska, Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Division of Air Quality, is soliciting proposals for sample media preparation, recovery, analysis, reporting, and sampler certification for Alaska’s National Ambient Air Toxic Trends Station (NATTS). The selected vendor will be responsible for shipping DEC-prepared sample media, receiving sampled media, extracting, analyzing, and reporting the results to DEC and EPA’s Air Quality System (AQS). The vendor must be familiar with the requirements of the National Air Toxics Trends Station (NATTS) Technical Assistance Document (TAD) and follow the guidelines and Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) under the guidance of EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) and Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
• The vendor must have a minimum of ten years of experience performing air toxics analysis equal to or exceeding that required for work performed for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Hazardous Air Pollutants program and National Air Toxics Trends Network.
• The vendor’s experience must include methods TO-15/15A, TO-13A, TO-11, IO-3.5, as well as positive and negative bias tests for VOC sampler certification and positive bias tests for carbonyl sampler certification.
• The vendor must describe its experience working with state and local air monitoring stations and EPA’s national monitoring networks, determining hazardous pollutants, including volatile, semi-volatile, ozone precursor, metals, and carbonyl in ambient air samples.