Mr. Libran Cabactulan, Special Assistant to the Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs, 2330 Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City, Philippines

99 -- PHILIPPINES: S154 General builders, industrial buildings and warehouses 8471 automatic data processing machines the Department of Foreign Affairs (dfa) invites all interested parties to submit proposals to provide equipment, peripherals and accessories, system and building in connection with the project of the dfa on machine readable passports and visas in conformity with the international civil aviation organization (icao) standards the project will be implemented under build-operate-transfer (bot) or any variant thereof in accordance with republic act no 6957, as amended by republic act no 7718. The details of prequalification requirements May be secured from the coratel and mis Division at the loth floor dfa building, 2330 Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City, Philippines, with Tel nos.: 834-4998, 834-4910, 834- 4433 all prequalification requirements should be submitted not later than 5 00 P.M. on 19 April 1995. Sealed bids shall be submitted and opened publicly on a date to be announced later on by the dfa-pbac a prebid conference for prequalified bidders shall be held on 4 May 1995 at 3 00 P.M. at the conference room, llth floor, dfa bldg each bid shall be accompanied by non-interest bearing bid bond in the form of gsis bond or manager's check equivalent to 2 pct of the total bid cost. Bid must be priced value added tax (vat) included; otherwise it will be presumed as such the dfa also reserves the right to confiscate the bid bond should the winning bidder refuse to accept the Post contact/prepared by pjskotte bid no : N/a bid opening to be announced later Please send a copy of your response to: Commercial Section (FCS TOP), American Embassy, Manila, APO Ap 96440, Refer to T0033.. (0055)

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