Commander (fcp), U.S. Coast Guard, Maintenance and Logistics Command Atlantic, Building 333, 2nd Floor, Governors Island, NY 10004-5098

Z -- INTERIOR/EXTERIOR PAINTING SOL DTCG84-95-B-7WM003 DUE 083195 POC Ms. Sandra Martinez, Contract Specialist; Mr. John Kmecz, Contracting Officer, fax (212) 668-7215. Contractor shall provide all labor, material, and equipment to perform interior and exterior painting services at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen and its Housing areas located at Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Performance period is 01 Oct 95 (or date of award) through 30 Sept 96 with four one-year option periods. All requests for solicitation package must be in writing. The proposed contract is under the Small Business Demonstration Program. The standard identification code (SIC) number is 1721 and small business size is 7 million dollars. Please include your business size, phone, and fax numbers, address and solicitation number DTCG84-95-B-7WM003 in your request. This notice is for informational propose for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantage Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprise to aquire short-term working capital assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivalbe financing. The maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms conserning the STLP, call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. (0200)

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