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R -- LEGAL SERVICES SOL RP-31ME-7-0004 DUE 121296 POC Cynthia Bennett, (202) 245-5852, Contract Specialist, Patti Swann, (202) 245-5896, Contracting Officer USDA, Rural Development, Rural Utilities Service (RUS) intends to procure Legal Services for the Electric and Telecommunications Programs. The Electric Program requires the following practice areas: 1) corporate, 2) project finance, 3) secured transactions, 4) real-estate, 5) tax, 6) bankruptcy, 7) cooperative law, 8) environmental law, and 9) energy law. The Telecommunciations Program requires the following practice areas: 1) corporate, 2) telecommunciations, 3) FCC administrative law, 4) securities law, 5) environmental law, 6) tax, 7) bankruptcy, and 8) satellite communications law. Legal services to be provided shall be corporate level legal support with respect to a broad array of approval requests from borrowers in the areas of corporate, energy, regulatory, environmental, real property and other areas. The services will include all necessary legal support required in connection with agency activities under agreements relating to applications by borrowers for financial assistance and approvals required pursuant to the terms of outstanding loan or security instructions. Services will be ordered on a task order basis. Multiple awards are anticipated with a base year plus four option periods. All firms interested in receiving a copy of solicitation No. RP-31ME-7-0004, must submit a request in writing to the attention of Cynthia Bennett. Your request may be faxed to (202) 245-5123. The Contracting Officer will not accept any oral requests for the RFP. The solicitation will be released on or about November 13, 1996. (0304)

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