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S -- FACILITIES MAINTENANCE SERVICES SOL DTCG84-95-B-5SE002 DUE 071095 POC Mary Comerford, Contract Specialist; John Kmecz, Contracting Officer fax (212) 668-7215. Provide labor, equipment, materials, services, supplies and supervision required to operate, maintain, repair, improve and construct real property facilities at U.S. Coast Guard Group Cape Hatteras, P.O. Box 604/Old Lighthouse Road, Buxton, NC 27920-0604. The period of prformance is on or about October 1, 1995 through September 30, 1996 with four one-year options. Details for the pre-bid conference will be provided in the IFB. The proposed contract is 100% set aside for small businesses. Applicable SIC code is 8744 with size standard of $7 million. All requests for bid sets must be in writing and as early as possible, but no later than 30 days after this notice. Requests can be sent via fax at (212) 668-7215. Please include your businedd size, phone and fax numbers, address, and solicitation number DTCG84-95-B-5SE002 in your request. Information conserning incumbent contractor and current contract price will be provided with the solicitation. This notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned, Disadvantaged Businessess: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provid accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is %500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP, call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. See Note 1. (0138)

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