U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service/CGS/TS, Eastside Federal Complex, 911 N.E. 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232-4181

Z -- EQUIPMENT RENTAL WITH OPERATOR SOL FWS1-96100 DUE 092096 POC Contact: Bid package requests, Sandy Stevens, (503) 872-2760 Requirements contract to provide heavy equipment (two crawler-mounted hydraulicexcavators) with operators, for projects related to the maintenance, restoration, and/orconstruction of wetlands, water delivery systems, dikes and related work at the SacramentoNational Wildlife Refuge Complex near Willows, California. The contract period shall run fromdate of contract award through September 30, 1997 with options for two additional years. Thescheduled issue date is August 20, 1996. The issue date is an estimate only. The actual bidopening date shall be 30 days after issuance. The total annual contract amount is estimated not toexceed $100,000. (0218)

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