General Services Administration, c/o Mitretek Systems, Inc., 7525 Colshire Drive, Mailstop Z450, McLean, VA 22102-3481

D -- FEDERAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE METROPOLITAN AREA ACQUISITION LOCAL SERVICES Contact Quoc T. Nguyen, 703-610-2987, Robert Sudhoff, Contracting Officer, 202-501-3422. This notice invites industry's participation on August 14 and 15, 1996 in the Metropolitan Area Acquisition (MAA) program concept development conference, sponsored by the General Services Administration and the Interagency Management Council (IMC) in New York City. The MAA program is envisioned to be a series of pilot interagency acquisition projects, designed to leverage the emerging competitive local telecommunications market for local telecommunications services in selected metropolitan areas. The MAA program is also designed to encourage and accelerate the pace of competition in the local telecommunications marketplace by making available a substantial Federal telecommunications market share to vendors. The New York metropolitan area has been selected as the first pilot project in the MAA program. GSA is seeking industry comments to the Concept Development paper and the issue papers. The papers will be available electronically on July 19, 1996 via the Internet World Wide Web at http://www.gsa.gov/maa. The on-line papers will be available in plain ASCII text version that can be easily read by any word processor, and a Microsoft Word 6.0 version that will contain the documents with all embedded graphics and formatting. Parties who wish to present comments at the conference through formal presentation to a panel of Federal Government agency members, must register and submit comments (including comments presented at the conference) by August 2, 1996. Parties who have comments but do not plan to present must register and submit comments by August 9, 1996. Parties who simply wish to attend the conference without comments or presentation must register by August 12, 1996. All parties must register for the conference, which will be held at The Alexander Hamilton Customs House, 1 Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004, via the above Internet address. The comments can be sent via the above Internet address and must be in one of the two above referenced formats. Alternatively, comments may be addressed in writing (with a copy on a 3.5 inch PC formatted diskette in Microsoft Word 6.0 format) to: General Services Administration, c/o Quoc T. Nguyen, Mitretek Systems, Inc., 7525 Colshire Drive, Mailstop Z450, McLean, VA 22102-3481. (199)

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