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

99 -- GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL DATA PACKAGE SOL 1435-02-97-RQ-27024 POC Mary A. Haden, (303)275-7376, Contracting Officer The Minerals Management Service intends to award a commercial product purchase order to GX Technology, 5847 San Felipe, Suite 3500, Houston, Texas 77057. Other than full and open competition will be utilized for the purchase of the entire commercial data package of approximately 1087 miles of 2-D seismic reprocessed National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska geological and geophysical data in the Fish Creek area Alaska. No solicitation is available for this sole source acquisition. Authority for this non-competititve acquisition is found under 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). (0156)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0339 19970609\99-0008.SOL)