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D -- TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS, EXCEPT RADIO TELEPHONE POC Contracting Officer, Paulette Ward, 202-708-5419 WITS Request for Comments (RFC)- The current contract for the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Telecommunications Service's (FTS) Washinton Interagency Telecommunication Systems (WITS) expires in January 1999. GSA awarded this contract to Bell Atlantic (formerly C&P Telephone Co.) on January 11, 1989. For the WITS2001 follow on contract, FTS is seeking suggestions, concerns and comments from agencies and industry in respect to the Government's direction to acquire telecommunication services for authorized users in the greater Washington, DC area. The RFC is available on WITS2001 Web site at http://post.fts2k.gsa.gov/wits2001. Transmit comments on a 3.5-inch diskette using Microsoft Word for Windows to the attention of the WITS Contracting Officer Paulette Ward, GSA, 7th & D STS., SW, Rm. 6050, Washington, DC 20407. All comments must be submitted by June 30, 1997. (0169)

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