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B -- SPECIAL STUDIES AND ANALYSIS - NOT R & D - POTENTIAL SOURCES SOUGHT POC Contract Specialist, Peter J Nerret (301) 504-0444/1148. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is seeking to identify Engineering Firms with analysis/testing laboratory facilities within a 75-mile radius of the CPSC staff offices which are located in Bethesda, Maryland. The Engineering Firm shall be qualified and able to conduct Quick Response Engineering Analysis and/or Testing of Products for Defects on a task order basis. A quick response task order is defined as a task that is performed within approximately two (2) to six (6) weeks. The items to be analyzed and/or tested may be any consumer product, as defined in the Consumer Product Safety Act. The products to be tested may be new, used, incident units or a combination of these. The Engineering Firms shall be capable in the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering disciplines as well as the Scientific disciplines of Metallurgy, Thermal and Chemical analysis. This is not a formal Request for Proposal (RFP). However, firms that respond should furnish detailed information concerning their capabilities. Interested firms shall respond with capability information within 15 calendar days of this synopsis. (260)

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