DOL RFI: Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services

Notice ID: ACQ-25-0093

This Request for Information (RFI) is being issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances (OSRV) to acquire technical, statistical, and editorial expertise to assist MSHA in developing, conducting and/or refining the Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA), including the regulatory alternative analysis and regulatory flexibility analysis, Technological and Economic Feasibility Analysis, Health Effects Analysis, Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), and Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) analyses for a health rule on respirable crystalline silica.

The contractor shall provide services for analytical, technical, statistical, and editorial expertise to assist MSHA in developing, conducting, and/or refining compliance assistance materials, educational resources,  regulatory impact analysis (RIA), including the regulatory alternative analysis and regulatory flexibility analysis (RFA), technological and economic feasibility analysis, health effects analysis, quantitative risk assessment (QRA), and Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) analyses for MSHA’s safety and health rulemakings and related initiatives.

Services to be provided by Contractor are as follows:

1. The Contractor shall review and summarize the research and literature findings and other documents that are relevant for MSHA’s safety and health rulemakings.
2. The Contractor shall, in consultation with OSRV, employ sound methodologies to assist in developing, conducting, and/or refining the RIA, including the regulatory alternative analysis and RFA, technological and economic feasibility analysis, health effects analysis, QRA, and PRA analyses for each MSHA rulemaking and related initiatives.
3. The Contractor shall, in consultation with OSRV, assist MSHA in categorizing, summarizing, reviewing, analyzing, and addressing comments, testimony, or questions received from mining community stakeholders and members of the public, about issues related to the RIA, including the regulatory alternative analysis and RFA, technological and economic feasibility analysis, health effects analysis, QRA, and PRA analyses and rulemaking documents for MSHA rulemakings and related initiatives.
4. The Contractor shall, in consultation with OSRV, assist MSHA in categorizing, summarizing, reviewing, analyzing, and addressing feedback received from OMB and other agencies about issues related to the RIA, including the regulatory alternative analysis and RFA, technological and economic feasibility analysis, health effects analysis, QRA, and PRA analyses and rulemaking documents for MSHA rulemakings and related initiatives.
5. The Contractor shall create and maintain a comment database system (fully accessible by designated MSHA staff) for MSHA rulemakings …

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