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(ar /u Lo - /'Jy J-f DOW CHEMICAL U.S.A. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ i__ April 26, 1974 midland. Michigan 48G40, D. Rausch T. Torkelson cc: E. H. Blair H. L. Gordon V. K. Rowe R. R. Langner JRC L. Daniel /3 wt R. Cladwell 30 fi C/> o o CO NIOSH will try to collect information on VCM/PVC during the next year according to the attached RFP. This has connotations of duplicating parts of the MCA study and parts of the monitoring/surveillance aspects the ETS. Even so, I'm inclined to think it is for the good of the order. of Are there any motivations for a Dow bid? vjt-Au^C Fred Hoerger Health and Environmental Research 9001 Building Attch. pl v ... - ... - - cLCfelYED X)ow, probcxbUj more iftov.o.oj oAw 1 1974 P'/c- fc, 8.LI epoA" ^ "V* of '*fcr*?h* f <,asf * ^ T*c*| "A . , AN OPERATING ~~re-- ouiztA^ , *j. j* /t ANY11CAL COMPANY . , jL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE PUFJLIC HEALTH SERVICE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL Wallace Seiler NATIONAL INSMtUtl F OIM K* C \ MV\ 1 u. n ,\i SAT L TV AND Hl'.Al III Request for Proposal No. CDC-99-OSH-128(4) R&S 140692 Date Issued - March 29, 1974 Date Due - May 10, 197A Gentlemen: You are invited to submit a proposal in accordance with the requirements of Request for Proposal No. CDC-99-OSH-128(4) for a project entitled M Environmental/Industrial Hygiene Surveys of Vinyl Chloride Monomer Manufacturing Operations and Operations Where Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers of Polyvinyl Chloride are Processed". A Cost-Reimbursement type contract is anticipated. Your proposal must be submitted in five copies and prepared in accordance with the attached "Contract Provisions", and "Instructions to Offerors". The original and one copy must be received by the Contracting Officer no later than 4:30 p.n. local prevailing time on May 10, 197A. If your proposal is to be mailed, it shall be addressed to: Mr. Leo A. Sanders Contracting Officer National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Parklawn Building, Room 3-44 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, Maryland 20852 Marked for RFP CDC-99-OSH-128(4) If your proposal is to be hand carried, the original and one copy shall be delivered to: Mr. Lee A. Sanders Contracting Officer National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Park Building, Room 3-44 12420 Fnrklavn Drive Rockville, Maryland 20852 Markcd for RFP CDC-99-OSH-128(4) Page 2 The other three copies shall be delivered to the following address by approximately the same date and time as those to the Contracting Officer; however, the determination for receipt of late proposals will be the time of the deliver to the Contracting Officer: Donald E. Marano National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Post Office and Court House Building 5th and Main Street Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 To assist you in the preparation of your ..proposal, the Government considers the effort to be approximately man-y^SCS. This number is furnished for the offeror's information only and is not considered restric tive for proposal purposes. Special attention is directed to the "Certificate of Nonsegregated Facilities" of this solicitation. You are cautioned that failure to agree to the certi fication shall render your proposal nonresponsive to solicitations involving awards of contracts exceeding $10,000 which are not exept from the provisions of the equal opportunity clause. The RFP does not commit the Government to pay cost for the preparation and submission of a proposal. It is also brought to your attention that the Contracting Officer is the only individual who can legally commit the Government to the expenditure of public funds in connection with this pro posed procurement. The clause set forth in #1-12.1102-2, Listing of Employment Openings, is included herein by reference. Instructions relative to the inclusion of the clause are set forth in the same FPR reference. Requests for any information concerning this RFP should be referred only to P. H. Dickerson at Area Cod 301/443-1590. R&S 140693 Enclosures Contracting Officer Enclosure 1 - Statement of Work Enclosure 2 - Technical Evaluation Criteria Enclosure 3 - Instructions to Offeror Enclosure 4 - Representation and Certification (To be completed and returned with proposal) Enclosure 5 Proposal Summary and Data Sheet -S--T-A--T--E--M--E--N--T---O--F----W--O--R--K A. Background and Purpose DO fio 0) ", 0 05 to Information recently has been made available to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that indicates a serious health problem potentially exists in workers involved with the polymerisation of vinyl chloride to polyvinyl chloride and polyvinyl chloride copolymers. Preliminary mortality information concerning one vinyl chloride polymerization plant has revealed there is a definite excess of deaths due to angiosarcoma of the liver in workers that have been involved with this processing. It has been reported by Imperial Chemical Industries of Great Britain that angiosarcomas of the liver develop in animals exposed to vinyl chloride. Since vinyl chloride is definitely present in the environs of the plant mentioned above, vinyl chloride has been postulated to be an etiologic agent in the above mentioned excess employee deaths. Since there is a large work force involved with vinyl chloride poly merization processing, NIOSH immediately initiated an extensive epidemiological investigation (including environmental surveys) into vinyl chloride polymerization operations and workers thereof. Vinyl chloride exposures, of course, also can occur in the produc tion of the monomer and may occur in the processing of the polyvinyl chloride and its copolymers and during *the commercial and industrial use of these polymers. Because these polymers have widespread use and there is potential for quite a large number of persons to be exposed to vinyl chloride, in addition to those people working in polymerization operations, there is a need to document the extent of vinyl chloride exposures in operations other than polymerization processing. 1 The purpose of this contract is to document past and present worker exposures to vinyl chloride during (1) the monomer production and the (2) processing of polyvinyl chloride and polyvinyl chloride copolymers. In addition to documenting worker exposures to vinyl chloride, information on work practics, environmental control pro cedures, industrial hygiene practices and worker exposures to other known liver toxins also will be documented. These data will be utilized to ascertain the extent of worker exposures to vinyl chloride ( and possibly other liver-toxins so tha't the possible health' effects--------impact in the industry can be determined and appropriate priorities for corrective measures, if needed, can be set. If vinyl chloride exposures are considered to be significant in these areas, then a very critical look at possible general exposures will be made. Enclosure 1 Scope of Work 1. The Contractor shall furnish the necessary personnel, material, services, facilities, and otherwise do all things necessary for or incident to the performance of work set forth herein. Speci fically, the Contractor shall perform the following: 4O* o> <0 tfi X. Vinyl Chloride Monomer Production There are 15 plants in the United States that produce vinyle chloride monomer according to NIOSH information (Attachment A). From these 15 plants, and any other plants that the contractor identifies, three plants shall be selected for on-site environmental/industrial hygienao surveys. Within 90 days of the Initiation of the contract, the con tractor shall present to the project officer (s) the list of vinyl chloride monomer plants and polymer processing plants that have been choosen for the environmental/industrial hygiene surveys. This pre sentation shall include the basis for the selection. The actual surveys shall notcommence until this information has been reviewed and approved by the project officer (s). Maximum review time shall be five working days. The criteria for selection shall include, but not be limited to: (1) information gained from preliminary site visits; (2) information gained from literature searches; (3) information gained from personal contacts; (4) the representativeness of the plants to industrywide operations; (5) the plants having the greatest potential for work ex posure to vinyl chloride; (6) the plants having the greatest gradient of worker exposures to vinyl chloride; (7) the availability of historical lnplant air measurements of vinyl chloride-? and (8) the plants having the longest history of vinyl chloride monomer production. The surveys at the selected three plants shall consist'of documenting past and present worker exposures to vinyl chloride and past and present. work practices, environmental control procedures and industrial hygiene practices that involve the reduction of worker exposures to vinyl chloride. At a minimum, the following specific information shall be obtained and/or constructed: (1) a. general description of the vinyl chloride monomer pro cessing operation; (2) 8-hour daily time-weighted average exposures (TWAs) of vinyl chloride for each different job-type/job-operation in the monomer processing area, including a specific job description for each of the job-types; (3) general area (stationary) samples of vinyl chloride in areas of suspected high concentrations; (4) raw material and product lists and quantities therof that relate to the past and present vinyl chloride levels; (5) ventilation design and ventilation measurements, including documentation of dates of ventila-tion changes - and - the extern:- 'Cf changes" and how they relate to past and present vinyl chloride levels; (6) documentation of past and present environmental control procedures and work practices that have been instituted to lowerrvinyl chloride levels and how they relate to past and present vinyl chloride levels; (7) photo graphs, sketches, etc. to document existing conditions; and (8) documen tation of past and present industrial hygiene practices, including utili zation of protective clothing (i.e. type, frequency of change, laundering practices, etc.), protective devices (i.e., respirator-usage, frequency type, etc.) housekeeping practices, shower requirements, eating, smoking and drinking practices in production -ar^as, etc. 30 fi (/> Task II. C* Processing of Polyvinyl Chloride and Polyvinyl Chloride Copolymers g O) Environmental/industrial hygiene surveys shall be conducted in pro duction areas where polyvinyl chloride and polyvinyl chloride co--; polymers* are processed including, but not limited to, the following operations: (1) compounding; (2)'extrusion; (3) molding; (4) calenderi(5) thermoforming; (6) binding; (7) foams; (8) fibers; and (9) plastiso processing. The surveys shall be conducted so that each processing operation is sampled at three different plants (locations). The criteria for the selection of these three plants shall include, but not be limited to: (1) information gained from preliminary site visits; (2) information gained from literature searches; (3) information gained from personal contacts; (4) representativeness of the operations to industrywide processing; (5) operations having greatest potential for wor exposures to vinyl chloride; (6) operations having the greatest gradien of worker exposures to vinyl chloride; (7) availability of historical inplant air measurements of vinyl chloride; and (8) the operations havi the longest history of polymer processing. The information that shall obtained and/or constructed shall be the same as the eight items listed above for the vinyl chloride monomer production operations. In additio to these eight items past and present TWA worker exposures to other kne liver toxins (if present) including, but not limited to, mercury, 2,2 dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate, ozone, dioxane, beryllium, lead, dimethylnitrosamine, arsenic, (amyl, methyl, ethyl, butyl, propl and viny acetate, copper, trichloroethylene, carbontetrachloride, arsine and tetrahydrofuran shall be measured and/or constructed. Task III. Sample Collection and Data Analyses All vinyl chloride sampling and analytical techniques shall be specifie in the contract proposal. If sampling is required for other known live toxins, the sampling and analytical procedures must be approved by the project officer(s) prior to use by the contractor. The contractor should be cognizant of the fact that vinyl chloride is considered a potential human liver carcinogen and all employees and age of the contractor should be provided with appropriate protective equipm These equipment needs will be discussed with the project officer(s) pri to the field surveys. i The sample collection shall be conducted in such a manner as to provide statistically valid data that are representative of present worker ex posures (categorized by. different jobpypes). to .vinyl xhloride.auci~ohe liver toxins, if found. Past worker exposures (by job-type) shall be constructed based on the information that is collected on the changes i processing, ventilation, environmental control, work practices and indu rial hygiene practices that have occurred over the years and on histori * Polyvinyl chloride-acetate, polyvinyl chloride-propylene and polyvinyl chlorid vinylidene chloride air sampling data (preferably personal samplinq data) collected in the plant, if deemed reliable and accurate. All assumptions that are made in arriving at the constructed concentrations shall jbe pre sented. All of the above information on processing changes, ventilatic changes, etc. shall be presented as part of the report on the surveys. Reporting Requirements In addition to the reports required by the General Provisions, the contractor shall prepare and submit the following reports to the Project Officer: TYPE FREQUENCY AND ADDRESSEE 1. Monthly progress reports to include the current status and activities planned for the next period; Fiscal information in cluding the initially projected rate of expenditure, actual expenditures during the report period, and a project to com plete. Monthly, five copies to the Project Officer; one copy to the Contracting Officer 2. Preliminary Draft Outline of the final report for approval prior to the issuance of the final report 3. The final report shall contain the criteria and performance requirements specified in the Scope of Work. Five copies prior to the end of the 11th month to Project Officer Prior to the completion date of the contract, 20 copies to the Project Off'' 4. In addition to the copies to be furnished to the Project Officer, one cop> of final report will be furnished to Contracting Officer and 1 copy to Acting Director, Office of Technical Publications, Room 3-10, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20852. When the final report and other technical reports, journal articles are complete and approved, the contractor shall submit a reproducible manu script (clean, black on white, single spaced, typewritten copy; plus all original photographs and/or drawings) acquired or developed to meet the terms of the contract. Xerox copies or equivalent are not acceptable. This manuscript becomes the property of the U.S. Government and is in add ition to any quantity of printed copies supplied by the contractor. Printed copies shall be of a standard size and format. Contractors are not to place their imprint or logo on pages of the final report. Along with paper copy the contractor shall provide an abstract of each document prepared in accordance with instructions contained in the NI OSH Abstracting and Indexing Guide and indexed using the NIOSH Thesaurus. A copy of the Abstracting and Indexing Guide and the Thesaurus will be supplied to the contractor by the Project Officer R&S 140697 4 r t i 5. All information or data, published or unpublished, acquired by the contractor in the performance of this contract will be delivered, to the project officer (s), whether included in the final report or1 not. D. Period of Performance Performance of this contract shall begin on the execution date of the con tract and shall be completed within 12 months unless the period is extended by amendment of the contract. E. Project Officer The Project Officer representing the Government for the purpose of this contract, shall be designated in writing by the Contracting Officer, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The Project Officer is responsible for: 1. Monitoring the Contractor's technical progress, including the surveillance and assessment of performance and recommending to the Contracting Officer changes in requirements; 2. Interpreting scope of work; 3. Performing technical evaluation as required; 4. Performing technical inspections and acceptances re quired by this contract; and 5. -Assisting the Contractor in the resolution of technical problems encountered during performance. D Ui o O) CO 00 The Contracting Officer is responsible for directing or negotiating any changes in the terms, conditions, or amounts cited in the contract. F. Publicity and Publications The contractor will not publish, relate, or otherwise disseminate any in formation resulting from the work performed under this contract except as may be approved by the project officer(s). Technical Evaluation Criteria Evaluation of each contractor's proposal will be based upon the following criteria: R&S 140699 Criteria for Evaluation A. Understanding of the Problem: Offeror demonstrates a thorough understanding of'the problem, scope and purpose of the required environmental/industrial hygiene surveys such that past and present worker exposures to vinyl chloride, etc. can be documented. Such understanding must include a complete knowledge of the processes and operations that will be sampled and the information that must be collected about industrial hygiene and work practices. B. Soundness of Approach: Offeror demonstrates a sound approach in selecting those plants and operations to be sampled, in de veloping the sampling strategies, in determining the information that is needed to construct past worker exposures to vinyl chloride, etc., and in specifying equipment needs. Offeror presents a logical and stepwise sequence of events that will accomplish the goals of the contract. Offeror presents a statistically sound approach for study design, date reduction and data analyses. C. Personnel: Offeror has available personnel that are familiar with (1) the processes and operations of vinyl chloride monomer production plants and polyvinyl chloride and polyvinyV-chloride copolymer processing operations; (2) industrial hygiene practices, procedures, and sampling techniques; (3) ventilation requirements; (4) sampling and study design techniques; and (5) chemistry and analytical procedures; -D. Facilities and Equipment: Offeror has available all the necessary equipment and facilites to conduct the sampling program and to sub sequently analyze the collected samples. 10 m Enclosure 2 i ATTACHMENT A 1. Allied Chemical Corporation Baton Rouge, La. 2. American Chemical Corporation Long Bcacii, California 3. The B. F. Goodrich Company Calvert City, Ky. h. Continental Oil Company Westlake, Louisiana 5. Dow Chemical Company Freeport, Texas 6. Dow Chemical Company Oyster Creek, Texas 7. Dow Chemical Company Plaquemine, Louisiana 8. Ethyl Corporation Industrial Chemicals Division Pasadena, Texas / 3. Ethyl Corporation Industrial Chemicals Division Baton Rouge, Louisiana 10* Monochem, Ineorporated j Geismar, Louisiana ; 11* PPO Industries, Incorporated ' Lake Charles, Louisiana 1 . .v-V' ` - .12.. PPG lndur.tr ies, Incorporated Guayanillo, Puerco Rico v`- 13* Shell Chemical Company Industrial Chemicals Division Deer Park, Texas 14. Tenneco Incorporated Tenneco Chemicals Incorporated Intermediates Division Houston, Texas 15. Union Carbide Corporation Chemical and Plastics Division Texas City, Texas R&S 140700 !*>