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68 -- PURCHASE DRY ICE SOL 157487-00-99 DUE 040799 POC Gwendolyn Hubbard, Contract Specialist, ph:301/827-7172; fax: 301/827-7103 See Note #1. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items and services prepared in accordance with format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation is an issued Request for Quotation (RFQ 157487). The solicitation clauses and provisions are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-10. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this acquisition is 5169. The Food and Drug Administration intends to award a Purchase Order using Simplified Acquisition Procedures for the purchase and delivery of Dry Ice. Service is to include: delivery of 2500 lbs. of dry ice, in the rice pellet form, to be divided among the 5 or 6 small bins located at the NIH, Building 29A, Loading Dock, Bethesda, Maryland; and 1110 lbs. of the same dumped into the large bin located in back of the Nicholson Lane Research Center, 5516 Nicholson Lane, Rockville, Maryland. Delivery schedule is between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., each Monday from April 16, 1999 through April 16, 2000. When Monday is a holiday delivery should be on Tuesday in the same time frame. The following FAR provisions apply to this solicitation: 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial; 52.212-2 Evaluation -- Commercial Items. All offerors are to include a completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items, with their offer. The following FAR clauses apply to this acquisition: 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items; 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercials Items; along with following additional FAR Clauses, cited in clause 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity; 52.222-35 Affirmative Action for Disabled and Veterans of Vietnam Era; 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; 52.225-3 Buy American Act -- Supplies. The following provision also applies to this acquisition, 52.232-33 Mandatory Information for Electronic Funds Transfer Payment. Quotes submitted in response to this solicitation shall be submitted by April 7, 1999, 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time to Gwendolyn Hubbard, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 2129, HFA-512, Rockville, MD 20857, phone (301) 827-7172, fax (301) 827-7103. All sources must submit along wiht their written quotes a nine digit numeric DUNS number that is assigned by Dun & Bradstreet. To apply for a Duns number please call 1-800-333-0505. Posted 03/19/99 (W-SN310452). (0078)

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