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A -- IDENTIFICATION OF MOUSE STRAINS WITH INHERITED HEARING IMPAIRMENT POC John P. DeCenzo, Contracting Officer, (301) 496-4487 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer., jd93o@nih.gov. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, intends to negotiate with The Jackson Laboratory to provide a secondary, pathological screen of ears from hearing impaired mice identified in the primary ABR screen under Contract No. N01-DC-6-2108. This secondary screen will consist of whole-mount and cross-section preparations of the inner ears of those mice identified as hearing-impaired in the primary screen. Authority: 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), as set forth in FAR 6.302-1. Inherent duplication of cost to the Government and unacceptable delays in completing the project make competition unfeasible for this secondary screen. See Numbered Note 22. Posted 02/19/99 (W-SN300294). (0050)

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