General Services Administration General Products Commodity Center Schedules, Contracting Division (7FXG-D7) 819 Taylor St Room 6A24 Fort Worth, TX 76102-61, 14

32 -- WOODWORKING & METALWORKING MACHINERY SOL 7FXI-D7-96-3201-1 DUE 052296 POC Dwight Young, Contract Specialist, 817/334-8372 Preinvitation notice scheduled to issue on or about 04/01/96. Solicitation scheduled to open on or about 4/22/96. This open Season multiple award schedule Solicitation is for woodworking and metalworking machinery and equipment toinclude: Industrial lathes, Sanders, sawing equipment, shaping and surfacingmachinery, milling machines, grinders, engraving machines, hydraulic presses, welders, Press brakes and shears. The contract period is 2/1/97 thru 1/31/99. All contracts to be awarded include industrial funding provisions. Various clauses including clause I-FSS-599, electronic Commerce-Federal acquisition network (facnet) are included which implement GSA advantage (GSA'S on-lineshopping program). Also included is clause I-FSS-125, requirements exceeding the maximum order, and related clauses which implement the new maximum order provisions allowing customer agencies to seek price decreases based upon requirements that exceed the maximum order established under any resultantcontracts. To assist the customer agencies to determine when they should seek aprice decrease, a level called a maximum order will be established under eachcontract. See NOTE 12 (trade agreements). All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. /notice/ in an effort to reduce papercosts, the Government will be distributing this Solicitation on a 3 1/2'' disk in work for windows version 6.0. A paper copy of this Solicitation will be provided only upon written request. Verbal requests will not be accepted.(0086)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0209 19960327\32-0001.SOL)