Minerals Management Service, Box 25165, Mail Stop 2730, Denver, CO 80225

99 -- GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL DATA Sol RFP-4277. POC Mary A. Haden, 303/275-7376, Contracting Officer. The Minerals Management Service intends to award a contract to ARCO Alaska, Inc., P.O. Box 100360, Anchorage, Alaska 99510-0360, utilizing other than full and open competition for the purchase of approximately 27 line miles of over-ice 2-D seismic reflection Permit Data. The subject data is within the State of Alaska jurisdiction and adjacent to Federal OCS jurisdiction waters. This data was acquired in conjunction with OCS data acquired under OCS Permit 94-01. No solicitation is available for this sole source acquisition. Authority for this non-competitive acquisition is found under 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). (181)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0557 19950705\99-0014.SOL)