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B -- FACILITY FOR PREPARING AND HOUSING VIRUS INFECTED MICE, GENETICALLY MANIPULATED MICE AND CHIMERIC MICE SOL N02-BC-40537 DUE 070397 POC Barbara A. Shadrick, Contracting Officer, phone (301)435-3787, fax (301)480-0241 E-MAIL: Barbara A. Shadrick, bs92y@nih.gov. The National Cancer Institute, Division of Basic Sciences, Experimental Immunology Branch, intends to negotiate a 36-month extension with Bioqual, Inc., Contract N02-BC-33047, awaiting completion of an animal holding facility at the Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center (FCRDC), NIH. This extension will provide for a phase-out period to allow the effective transfer of the work to the Government facility. Authority for this action is 41 USC 253(c)(1), as set forth in FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(ii). Inherent duplication of cost to the Government and risk associated with moving the animals make competition unfeasible for this phase-out period. (See Numbered Note 22). All responses to this notice must be submitted in writing by mail or fax. Collect calls will not be accepted. (0139)

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