Minerals Management Service, Box 25165, Mail Stop 2730, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0165

99 -- GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL DATA SOL 1435-02-97-RP-40292 POC Mary A. Haden, (303)275-7376, Contracting Officer The Minerals Management Service intends to award a contract to ARCO Alaska, Inc., P.O. Box 100360, Anchorage, AK 99510-0360, utilizing other than full and open competition for the purchase of approximately 41 line miles of 2-D marine seismic reflection data. The subject data is within the State of Alaska jurisdiction and adjacent to east of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska jurisdiction waters. No solicitation is available for this sole source acquisition. Authority for this non-competitive acquisition is found under 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). (0155)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0333 19970609\99-0002.SOL)