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-40291 POC Mary A. Haden, (303)275-7376, Contracting Officer The Minerals Management Service intends to award a contract to Western Atlas International, Inc., P.O. Box 2469, Houston, Texas 77252-2469, utilizing other than full and open competition for the purchase of approximately 54 line miles of 2-D marine seismic reflection data. The subject data is within the State of Alaska jurisdiction and adjacent to Federal OCS jurisdiction waters. This data was acquired in conjunction with OCS data acquired under OCS Permit No.'s 90-05, 79-04 and 80-01. 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# 0334 19970609\99-0003.SOL)