PAPERLESS SOLICITATIONS/IMPLEMENTATION OF FACNET Attention contractors doing business with the Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC). Commencing August 27, 1999, DSCC will discontinue mailing paper copies of solicitations below the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT). Solicitations will be available electronically through the DLA Procurement Gateway at http://progate.daps.mil, the DSCC website at "www.dscccols.com", or through FACNET (current third party, commercial methods of receiving solicitation information are not affected). The DLA Procurement Gateway provides ease of access to all DLA solicitations below the SAT, and contains an on-line profile building feature that provides users an email notification of solicitations matching their profile. If you are interested in only DSCC solicitations, the DSCC website provides flexible search options, including a full text search, for all DSCC Request for Quotations (RFQs) in an html format. For FACNET, contractors need only sign up with a DoD approved Value Added Network (VAN), register with the Central Contractor Registration, and specify which types of procurements they are interested in. Regardless of how solicitations are accessed, the only acceptable method for submitting electronic responses to DSCC is the DSCC Electronic Bid Board (EBB). Since access to DSCC solicitations valued between $25,000 and $100,000 will be available via FACNET, notices for these actions will no longer be synopsized in the Commerce Business Daily (see FAR 5.202(a)(13)). Points of contact for technical issues are rsarkissian@disc.dla.mil (Procurement Gateway) and ebb_help@dscc.dla.mil (DSCC RFQ website and DSCC EBB). A list of approved VANs is available at http://www.acq.osd.mil/ec/ecip/van_html. Posted 08/12/99 (W-SN366732).

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