The Department of Energy and the Environment (DOEE), Air Quality Division, is responsible for the federally mandated ambient air quality monitoring network in the District of Columbia (DC). DC’s ambient network of criteria pollutant gaseous analyzers measure ground-level ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and total reactive nitrogen species (NOY), in addition to course and fine particulate matter via PM10 and PM2.5 samplers. These pollutants are listed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as criteria air pollutants with health-based National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). In compliance with federal regulations (40 C.F.R. Parts 50, 51, 52, 53, and 58), DOEE must operate and maintain the ambient monitoring network to collect and provide air quality data for criteria air pollutants. In 2015, DOEE partnered with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a solar and wind-powered Village Green (VG) air monitoring station at the Smithsonian National Zoo as part of EPA’s national pilot. The EPA-VG prototype station has been providing real-time data and air quality information to the public by utilizing innovative technology for community-level air quality measurements. The VG monitoring station has been equipped with PM2.5 and O3 monitors, in addition to meteorological measurement sensors for temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed. This VG air monitoring station is powered by solar panels and a wind turbine and fully runs on renewable energy. EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) designed and developed the original VG prototype stations for the national pilot, including the National Zoo VG station in DC. The EPA-VG prototype station incorporates black carbon (i.e., diesel particulate matter) air quality measurements and seamless data telemetry. Recently, VG air monitoring stations were deployed at the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona and the City of Fort Collins, Colorado. Station design, sampling equipment, data systems and telemetry, support systems and improvisations are specific to EPA-ORD and partnering original equipment manufacturers. This procurement is: i) for upgrading the existing National Zoo VG station with new monitoring equipment and ii) for the design and deployment of a new VG air monitoring station in a disadvantaged, environmental justice community in Ward 7 in the District of Columbia to provide ambient air quality data and real-time information to the affected communities. This procurement is fully funded by Clean Air Act/ARPA federal grant funds. DOEE is seeking a vendor to supply additional monitoring equipment and services for upgrading the existing VG station at the National Zoo, and to design and deploy one off-the-grid VG air monitoring station in an EJ community in Ward 7 in the District of Columbia. The upgrades for the National Zoo VG station will include a new datalogger and integration with DC’s VG station network. Whereas the new turn-key station for Ward 7 shall measure O3, PM2.5, Black Carbon (BC) ambient air quality and surface meteorological parameters and transmit real-time data to DC’s and EPA’s VG station network air quality data repositories. Station design, sampling equipment, data systems and telemetry, support systems and improvisations are specific to EPA-ORD and partnering original equipment manufacturers; GENERIC and AFTERMARKET PARTS SHALL NOT BE USED. If the supplier for this order is a third-party vendor between the OEM and the end user (DOEE), the third-party vendor/supplier must provide and transfer the manufacturer’s original certificate of warranty to the end user, DOEE. The OEM shall honor the warranty to the end user, DOEE.
