Contracting Officer, U.S. Coast Guard, Civil Engineering Unit Oakland, 2000 Embarcadero, Suite 200, Oakland, CA 94606-5337

Z -- REPLACE FIRE ALARM IN BUILDING 308 AT U. S. COAST GUARD STATION MONTEREY, MONTEREY, CA SOL DTCG88-97-B-623171 DUE 010797 POC Contact Bid Issuing Clerk, (510) 535-7219; Contracting Officer Marilyn Van De Loo, (510) 535-7283 INSTALL A NEW FIRE ALARM SYSTEM IN BUILDING 308 AT U.S. COAST GUARD STATION MONTEREY, MONTEREY, CA. Work includes but not limited to the following: Provide all labor, material, supervision, equipment, transportation, and all other necessary items for a complete and usable project: install new fire alarm system in building 308; provide modules, power supplies, battery standby power, cards, monitoring hardware, software, transmission system; provide terminal to terminal shop drawing, wiring diagram operating manual and software documentation; provide test and training. Estimated cost of this procurement is between $25,000 and $50,000. Performance period is 60 calendar days after receipt of Notice Proceed. Anticipate bid issue date is 5 December 1996. SIC Code for this procurement is 1731, Small Business size standard is Small if its average annual Receipts for its preceeding 3 fiscal years do not exceed $7.0 million. THIS IS AN UNRESTRICTED ACQUISITION BEING SOLICITED AND AWARDED UNDER THE SMALL BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM, ALL RESPONSIBLE SOURCES ARE ENCOURAGED TO RESPOND. For Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT Office of Small and Disadvantage Business Utilization has programs to assist minority, women owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital and bonding assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates up to $500,000 per contract to provide accounts receivable financing. The DOT Bonding Assistance Program enables firms to apply for bid, performance and payment bonds up to $500,000 per contract. DOT provides and 80 percent guaranty on the bond amount to a surety against losses. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP and Bonding Assistance Program, please call (800) 532-1169. (0330)

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