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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 13,1997 PSA#1760DOT/RSPA/Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway,
Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02142 22 -- FOR THE PURCHASE OF RECONDITIONED 70 TON CAPACITY RAILWAY BOX
CARS SOL DTRS-57-97-B-00011 DUE 070196 POC Guy Hillman, Contracting
Officer, FAX (617)494-3024 or 3656. The Volpe Center intends to
purchase up to 60, 70 ton capacity reconditioned railway box cars. The
contractor shall provide the material, labor and equipment to
recondition, inspect, test, deliver and warranty up to fifty rail box
cars. Detailed specifications will be set forth in the solicitation.
All requests for solicitation should be submitted in writing. Requests
for copies of the solicitation shall be received no later than fifteen
(15) calendar days after publication. Telephone requests will not be
honored. The Volpe Center maintains a Home Page on the WWW at Uniform
Resource Locator hhtp://www.volpe.dot.gov/ where synopses and
competitive RFP's, IFB's and RFQ's may be viewed or downloaded. The
Department of Transportation (DOT) has a bonding assistance program
available which enables minority, women and disadvantaged business
enterprise firms to obtain bid, payment, and performance bonds with a
guarantee up to 80 percent against losses. 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
(202) 366-2852.The solicitation and any document 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.htm". Offerors desiring to receive
electronic notification of the solicitation's posting and availability
for downloading may register at the Volpe Center site. Requests for a
hardcopy of the solicitation may be mailed or sent via E-Mail to
[fill-in E-Mail address of specialist]. Telephone requests will not be
honored. competitivtext (0008) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0213 19970113\22-0001.SOL)
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