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22 -- TWO USED RAILROAD GONDOLA CARS SOL DTRS57-99-Q-80106 DUE 082599 POC Point of Contact -- Karen Marino, Purchasing Agent, (617) 494-2437 WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Purchasing Agent, Marinok@volpe.dot.gov. The Volpe Center intends to purchase, through Simplified Acquisition procedures, a competitive Request for Quote (RFQ) for two reconditioned used gondola railcars with a minimum capacity of 100 tons. The contractor shall provide the material, labor and equipment to recondition, inspect, test, deliver and warranty gondola railcars. The gondola railcars and documentation shall be delivered within 270 days of purchase order award. The flatcars shall have a 56 = inch gage, and a minimum capacity of 100-tons, and shall be mounted on two 4-wheeled freight trucks. Detailed specifications will be set forth in the Request for Quotation (RFQ). This procurement will be conducted as a commercial acquisition under FAR Part 13.5. A firm-fixed price purchase order is anticipated. This is a sm all business set-aside; the applicable SIC code is 3743. The size standard is no more than 1,000 employees. The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available on the Internet; these documents will be available in text format and reside on a WWW server, which may be accessed using Web browsers. The WWW address, or URL, of the Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page is: http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. Offerors desiring to receive electronic notification of the solicitation's posting and availability for downloading may register at the Volpe Center site. Contractors are warned that when they register to receive solicitations, amendments and other notices, the responsibility for providing the Government with an accurate and complete e-mail addre ss lies with the contractor. The Government will make no additional efforts to deliver information when the system indicates that transmissions cannot be delivered to the e-mail address provided. NO HARD COPIES of the solicitation will be mailed. Telephone requests will not be honored. The following notice is notice for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Short Terms Lending Program (STLP) offers working capital financing in the form of lines of credit to finance accounts receivable for transportation related contracts. Maximum line of credit is $500,000. In addition, a short-term loan program is available to provide working capital at the prime interest rate. For further information regarding these programs, please call the DOT Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization at (800) 532-1169;http://osdbuweb.dot.gov. For information concerning this acquisition, contact the contracting official above. Posted 08/17/99 (D-SN368692). (0229)

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